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PHYS 316 Methods in Mathematical Physics I Units: 3.00
Methods of mathematics important for physicists. Complex arithmetic, series expansions and approximations of functions, Fourier series and transforms, vector spaces and eigenvalue problems, ordinary differential equations and Green's functions.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 72 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (MATH 221 or MATH 227 or MATH 280) and (MATH 225 or MATH 231 or MATH 232).
Exclusion MATH 334; MATH 338; PHYS 312.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Algebraically manipulate complex numbers and complex exponentials.
- Apply the standard methods of mathematical physics, such as Green's functions, to solve ordinary differential equations.
- Apply the techniques of linear vector spaces to problems in classical and quantum mechanics.
- Compute Fourier series and transforms of elementary functions.