PH561 – PH505

MATHEMATICAL METHODS:

SUPPLEMENTARY READING AND CONFERENCE

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Syllabus for Fall 2007

General Information			announcements	Ph461/Ph561	Last update 10/29/07
Week	Date	Topic				Reading (RHB 3rd Ed.)	Homework
1	W Sept. 26	Matrices h1 h2 Vector spaces, linear operations, matrices				§8.1 - §8.5
2	W Oct. 3	Transpose, Hermetian conjugates, trace, determinant, inverse h3				§8.6 - §8.10	HW1 SolnHW1
3	W Oct. 10	Rank, Special square matrices h4				§8.11, §8.12	HW2 SolnHW2
4	W Oct. 17	Eigenvalues and eigenvectors h5				§8.13, §8.14	HW3 SolnHW3
	W Oct. 24	NO CLASS
5	W Oct. 31	Change of basis, similarity transformations, diagonalization h6				§8.15, §8.16	HW4 SolnHW4
6	W Nov. 7	Complex Variables h7 Analyticity, Cauchy-Riemann equations				§24.1, §24.2	HW5 SolnHW5
7	W Nov. 14	Complex power series, elementary and multi-valued functions, singularities and zeros				§24.3 - §24.6	HW6 SolnHW6
8	M Nov. 19 16:00	Complex integrals, Cauchy’s theorem, Cauchy’s integral formula h8				§24.8 - §24.10
9	W Nov. 21	Laurent series, residue theorem				§24.11 - §24.12	HW7 SolnHW7
10	W Nov. 28	Finding poles and residues, applications					HW8 SolnHW8
	Friday, Dec 7 07:30 - 09:20	FINAL EXAM final exam info