Lecture Information

This page will be used to give links to additional material for the course. Most material will come directly from the text:

Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary L. Boas

Lecture Note Supplements

Below are some MatLab codes and pictures from PDEs provided by Ricardo Carretero.

Matlab:

• A practical introduction to Matlab (HTML, PostScript)
• Matlab Help

Maple:

• Maple Workshop notes

Lectures:

Heat equation in 1D: MatLab: heatjm.m. Maple: heat1D

PDE integrator in 1D: PDE_integrator.m, wave_plotsurf.m.

Normal modes of wave equation: vibrate.m


Solutions to the linear wave equation: wave_eq.m.



D'Alambert solutions to the linear wave equation: ugauss_utzero.m.


Bessel modes: bessel_modes.m, besselzero.m.

• Vibrational modes of a circular membrane: membrane.mws