Physics 231

Introduction to Theoretical Physics
Spring Semester 2008 - MWF 11:00-11:50 am
AJM Room 230

CRN: 30959.
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Course Description: Mathematical methods essential to the practice of theoretical physics, such as matrices, vector calculus, differential equations, and Fourier series, with applications to examples from mechanics and electromagnetism. (3 credits.)

Prerequisite: Calculus of Functions of Several Variables (Math 224).
Corequisites: Introduction to Differential Equations (Math 225), General and Modern Physics III (Phys 213).
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Instructor:   Carla Riedel
Contact Info:   EPS 211   994-6178  
Office Hours:   9-10:50 am TR and noon-3 pm MWF

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I recoil with dismay and horror at this lamentable plague of functions which do not have derivatives.

- Charles Hermite

Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.

- Albert Einstein


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