Instructor: Josh Deutsch 209 ISB

Office Hours: Friday 12:30-1:30 and Friday 3:30-4:30 PM

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Discussion Sections: Thursday 4:00-5:30PM TBA

Office Hours: TBA

Textbook: Mary Boas

``Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences'' (Required).

Evaluations

Student evaluations will be based on their performance in the following three tasks. These tasks and their relative weights in determining the students' ultimate ranking are given below:

Weekly homework:

Due every Monday starting September 30. (Homework due on November 12 is postponed to November 14.) Seven homework sets must be completed and handed in as a requirement to pass the course. To count, 80% of the assigned problems in a homework set must be attempted. Each attempt must constitute a serious effort to solve a problem.

Midterms: Two midterms exams October 16 and November 13 Weight: 60% (30% each)

Final: In class closed book final exam on Thursday, December 5 8:00-11:00AM Weight: 40%

Each midterm will be closed book but will contain at least one problem closely related to a homework problem. For the final exam students will be allowed to bring an 8.5 by 11 inch sheet of paper containing any information they please. In all exams, no calculators or computers are allowed.

Outline (subject to modification)

Complex Analysis 
                       Boas Chapter 14             Sept 18-Oct 2 



Series Solutions to Differential Eqn's, special functions and partial
differential eqns. 
                       Boas Chapter 12 and 13      Oct 4-Nov 1 


Some more special Functions 
                       Boas Chapter 11             Nov 4 


Integral Transforms and Greens functions  
                       Boas Chapter 15             Nov 6 - Nov 25 


Review                                           Nov 27 

Because of holidays, class does not meet on November 11 and 29.