ANNOUNCEMENTS and ASSIGNS for PHY306


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CLASS ASSIGNMENTS.

Go to the network and download Mathematica from SAL.
Go through the tutorial to learn Mathematica.

Read over Chapter 2 in the text, especially sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 ,  & 11.  Go through
all the examples in these sections.

Assigned Problems:

Problems are not to be submitted unless specifically stated here.
Solutions to problems highlighted in green have been posted.

Read over the Mathematica document on this homepage. Do the problems MM1, MM2,
MM3 that are given in that document.  These are to be handed in on a date to be announced.

RJP-10:  See RJP Problems file.  This is problem is to be submitted on 9-11-2009.

Chap. 2:

    2-4.1, 2-4.7, 2-4.11, 2-4.14, 2-4.20.
    2-5.2, 2-5.6, 2-5.16, 2-5.32, 2-5.43.
    2-9.3, 2-9.7
    2-11.11.  Submit on 9-15-2009

Chap. 3:
  The numbering of RJP problems now includes the corresponding chapter number
  in Boas as the first number of the problem number.

  RJP-330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335

  Submit RJP-332 on 9-24-2009

  Boas: 3-6.7, 3-6.8, 3-6.22, 3-6.25
  RJP-340, 341, 346, 350
  RJP-340 is to be submitted on Friday, 10-02-2009
  Boas: 3-9.3
  Boas: 3-4.12, 13,15a,15b

Chap. 4:

  RJP-410

Chap. 5:

  RJP-500.  This problem is to be submitted on Fri. 10-09-2009.

  Boas: 5-2.1, 5-2.5, 5-2.11, 5-2.15, 5-2.31(cancelled), 5-2.34
            5-3.2b,c, 5-3.3

  RJP-515

   In Boas go over Example 2 on pages 251 thru 255 thoroughly.  If you do not understand
   what is being done, see me.  Then do Boas 5-3.33 and RJP 5-21, and RJP 526.

  RJP 526 is to be submitted on Fri. 10-16-2009

  In Boas, go over Example 2 0n pages 259 and 260 thoroughly.  Then do:

   RJP-531, 545

   In Boas, look opver the derivation of the Jacobian for spherical coordinates on page
263.  Then study Examples 2, 3, and 4 on pages 263 to 265 thoroughly.  Then do:

  Boas 5-4.1a, b, c, 5-4.3a, 5-4.16

Chap. 6:

   In Boas, study the derivation of equation (3.2) on page 279 and the derivation of
equation (3.8) on page 280.

    Boas:  6-3.3, 6-3.4, 6-3.5(done in class), 6-3.6, 6-3.7a&b, 6-3.8, 6-3.19

Test material ends here.

Test No. 1 will be given on Wednesday evening, October 21, anytime between 16:00 to
22:00 in a room to be announced, probably the seminar room.

Chap. 6:

   Read over Chapter 6 sections 4, 5, and 6 in Boas and go over the examples there.

Do: Boas: 6-6.1, 6-6.3, 6-4.9, 6-6.4, 6-6.6a, 6-6.9a,b, & 6-6.13.

Submit Boas 6-6.9 for grading on Friday 11-6-2009

    On 10-23-2009 we covered pages 287 & 288 on differentiating basis vector for
polar coordinates and chapter 6, section 6 and 7 on operations with the del operator.

Do: Boas 6-7.5, 6-7.14

On 10-27-2009 we covered Chap. 6 section 8 on line integrals and conservative
fields.  Read over the last part of this section and study the examples.

Do: Boas 6-8.5, 6-8.6a 6-8.18.

On 11-03-2009 we covered Chap. 6. sec. 10 on the divergence theorem and
Gauss's Law.  Study the eample on the application of Gauss's Law on page 322.

Do Boas: 6-9.10, 6-10.2, 6-10.5, 6-10.15.

On 11-06-2009 we addressed the matter in Chapter 6, section 9 on Green's
Theorem in a plane and Stokes' theorem.  Study the 4 examples in this section.
Scction 11 was also covered on circulation and Stokes' theorem in 3D.  We also
went over Example 1 in an alternative way.  Read over the remainder of this Chapter
Next time we start Fourier Series.

Do Boas: 6-11.2, 6-11.4, 6-12.29

Do: RJP5-645, 685, 690. 693.

On 11-10-2009, we covered the material in Chp 12-6 on orthogonal functions and
Chapter 7-3 thru 7-5 on Fourier Series.

Do Boas 7-3.3, 7-4.5, 7-4.11.

On 11-17-2009 we covered secs. 5, 6, & 7 of Chp 7 and showed how one finds the
coefficents an and bn for a trignometric Fourier Series and worked out an example.
We also discussed the Dirichlet conditions and showed how to expand a function
in a complex exponential Fourier Series.

Do Boas 7-5.1, 7-5.2, 7-5.7, 7-5.8  and RJP-708.

Submit the hand derived solution of 7-5.8 by Wed. 11-25-2009 at 15:00 EST, the latest,
along with a fortran source code that computes the harmonic terms out to n=5, not
including the a0 term. Then inport the data output of the program into EXCEL and plot
each of the separtate harmonic terms as a different curve over the interval of
convergence on one graph and the sum of all the terms on a separate graph.  Each of
the two graphs should occupy one full page and the axes must be labeled correctly.
This project will be worth 80 points, so do a good job and check with me if you get hung
up.  You may discuss the project among yourselves, but everyone is to do their own
work. Cheaters will experience the dark side of the force.
 

The solution to RJP 721 is already posted as an example of doing a complex Fourier
Series, in lieu of doing it in class.

From Dr. Ochoa's session on 11-20-2009:

Do Boas 3-11.2, 3-11.13, 3-11.17, 3-11.29

On 11-24-2009 we covered Chap 7, section 8 & 9 and worked out problem 7-8.11b.
You can also benefit from reading section 10, 11. and 12.  We then started Chapter 13,
covering the solution of Laplace's Equation in cylindrical coordinates and the derivation
of Bessel's Equation. So read Chapter 13, section 1 and section 5. I have also expanded
upon the notes of today and put this in the Supplementry Notes document.  Be sure to
study this.

Do Boas 7-8.11b, 7-8.15, 7-9.9, 7-10.5, 7-10.7, 7-13.4a, 7-13.7, 7-13.14a, and RJP 721.

On 12-01-2009 we continued discussing the solution of Bessel's Equation and described
how the Bessel functions may be used to expand a function over some interval.

As a challange, see of you can do Boas 13-5.2a.
 

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