PHZ 3113
Resources — Fall 2012
Recommended books
The following are classic texts that are available as reprints for under $25 each.
- Mathematics for Physicists by P. Dennery and A. Krzywicki (Dover, 1996). Reprint of a 1967 book. More rigorous and more logically organized than Boas, but rather condensed.
- Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics by F. W. Byron and R. W. Fuller (Dover, 1992). Reprint of two volumes that first appeared in 1969 and 1970. Graduate level text that emphasizes the role of vector spaces in physics.
- A Course in Modern Analysis by E. T. Whittaker and G. N. Watson (4th ed., Cambridge University Press, 1927). Especially good on special functions commonly encountered in physics.
Lecture notes
Notes for each chapter will be posted online towards the end of lecture coverage of that chapter. To access these notes, the course username and password must be entered once per browser session.
- Infinite Series
- Partial Differentiation
- Multiple Integrals
- Vector Analysis
- Complex Numbers
- Functions of a Complex Variable
- Linear Algebra
- Fourier Analysis
- Second-order differential equations (partial)
Fall 2011 Exams
- Exam 1: questions | solutions | score distribution
- Exam 2: questions | solutions
- Exam 3: questions | solutions