PHY1540H S GENERAL
Mathematical Methods in Physics
not offered this year!
Official description
Topics:
An introduction, aimed at the physicist, to various mathematical methods of use in several areas of physics.
Topics:
- Tensor algebra and exterior calculus on manifolds
- Introduction to group theory I: generalities, discrete groups
- Introduction to group theory II: Lie groups with an emphasis on semisimple groups
- Solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations with Green functions
- Textbook
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Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics by F.W. Byron and R.W.Fuller (Dover, 1992)
- course title
- PHY1540H S GENERAL
- session
- winter
- group
- general course
- time and location
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Lecture: Mon and Wed, 1 pm, MP 1115; and Fri, 2 pm, MP1115
- instructor
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