On this webite, we collect material for the course `Mathematical methods
in physics', that runs during the fall 2019. If you have
questions, contact Eddy Ardonne via mail
(ardonne@fysik.su.se).
Fysikum's website with course facts for this course:
FK7048.
If you have problems with the registration for this course, please
contact Gorica Nikolic at the student administration.
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The corrected exam (and exercise sheets) can be picked up at the
student administration.
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Some of the information will be given on a Piazza website. Most of you
should be signed up automatically, but if not, you can sign up here
(use the course code: fk7048):
Piazza
site.
You can find the hand-ins there, and you should
upload your electronic solutions there. If you hand in hardcopy
solutions, this should be done during the lecture on the due date.
The schedule for the course
as a pdf file.
The course consists of lectures, tutorials and hand-in exercises, that
form .3 of the grade (the exam counting .7). Below, it is indicated
when the lectures/toturials will be.
- Sep. 4: lecture 1
- Sep. 5: lecture 2
- Sep. 5: tutorial 1
- Sep. 6: lecture 3
- Sep. 10: lecture 4
- Sep. 11: tutorial 2
- Sep. 12: lecture 5
- Sep. 13: tutorial 3
- Sep. 16: lecture 6
- Sep. 18: lecture 7
- Sep. 19: lecture 8
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- Sep. 20: tutorial 4
- Sep. 23: lecture 9
- Sep. 25: tutorial 5
- Sep. 26: lecture 10
- Sep. 27: tutorial 6
- Sep. 30: lecture 11
- Oct. 2: lecture 12
- Oct. 3: tutorial 7
- Oct. 4: Cancelled
- Oct. 7: lecture 13
- Oct. 9: lecture 14
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- Oct. 10: lecture 15
- Oct. 11: lecture 16
- Oct. 14: tutorial 8
- Oct. 16: tutorial 9
- Oct. 17: lecture 17
- Oct. 18: lecture 18
- Oct. 21: tutorial 10
- Oct. 23: tutorial 11
- Oct. 24: lecture 19
- Oct. 25: tutorial 12
- Nov. 1: exam
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Eddy Ardonne (ardonne_at_fysik.su.se)
Course resonsible; lectures
tfn 5537 8596, rum C5:3025
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Anthony Bonfils (anthony.physth_at_gmail.com)
tutorials
room 113:008 (Nordita South)
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Vipin Agrawal (vipinagrawal25@gmail.com)
hand-ins
room 122:011 (Nordita West)
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Literature: Arfken, Weber, Harris: Mathematical Methods for
Physicists, 7th edition, Elsevier Academic Press 2012. Note that the
book can be obtained as an e-book (in pdf format) from the university
library at:
http://libris.kb.se/bib/13418437.
I will make lecture notes available here. These are the lecture notes
from Lars Petterson, who taught the course before me. These notes are
of much better quality than my notes. Thus, some differences with the
actual lectures I give will occur.
More detailed reading instructions, specifying the sections of the
book for each lecture are updated continuously in this file
reading instructions 2019.
- Lecture notes for Chapter 7.
- Lecture notes for
Chapter 8.
- Lecture notes for
Chapter 9.
Some extra (more advanced) information on the method of
characteristics.
- Lecture notes for
Chapter 10.
- Lecture notes for
Chapter 11, part 1 and Chapter 11, part 2.
- Lecture notes for
Chapter
11, part 3; Chapter 12, part 1.
- Lecture notes for
Chapter 12, part 2.
- Lecture notes for
Chapter 13.
- Lecture notes for
Chapter
14, part 1 and
Chapter
14, part 2.
- Lecture notes for
Chapter 15.
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Arfken,
Weber, Harris: chapter 19, sec. 1.
- Lecture notes for
Chapter 20.
The material for the tutorials will be collected here. Focus will be
on old exam questions.
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Material for tutorial 1 (focus on problems 1,2,3,4,5).
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Material for tutorial 2 (focus on problems 3,4,14,15).
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Material for tutorial
3 (problem 11), and problems related to equi-dimensional and
non-linear ODEs (useful for hand-in two).
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Material for tutorial
4
There will be eight hand-in exercise sheets, that together make up 0.3
of the total grade. The due date of the sheets will be announced soon.
Sheets will be posted roughly ten days before the deadline.
Please read the general remarks for the hand-ins
carefully!
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Sheet 1; due
tuesday september 10, at 15:15.
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Sheet 2; due monday september 16, at 10:00.
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Sheet 3; due
monday september 23, at 10:00.
This paper (.pdf) has much more information on the
second problem, but is not necessary to solve it. Even more
information can be found in the
supplemental information (.pdf)
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Sheet 4; due
wednesday october 2nd at 15:15.
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Sheet 5; due
monday october 9th at 15:15.
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Sheet 6; due
wednesday october 16th at 15:15.
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Sheet 7; due
wednesday october 23rd at 15:15.
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Sheet 8; due
monday october 28th at 10:00.
The exam will be an open book exam. During the regular exam (on
friday, november 1st 2019), you will be allowed to use the electronic
version of the book. During the re-exams, only paper copies will be
allows (a few copies will be made available).
The hand-ins will count for 0.3 of the grade, the exam 0.7.
To pass the course (grade E), one needs 0.5, for grade D 0.6, etc.
The following old exams were made by a different teacher, so they
might differ somewhat in style, length, etc.
Old exams:
