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[Ecthy]

I'm going to change my votes in Dissident's thread now

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by GP
What book did you use for Mathematical physics after diff Eq's?

We didn't have a course called "mathematical physics". We took math courses and physics courses separately...

Did a lot of stupid polynomial expansions during EM class. Useful for solving different PDEs you get...

[KrazyHorse]

For EM we were supposed to use Griffens (very easily written), but it was often more useful to go to Jackson (gold standard for EM fundamentals, and apparently the basis for every grad school's primary EM course).

[TCO]

Tell me more about the math progression.

We had a semester each of
diff calc
integ calc
multivariable calc
diff e qs (called "screws"


That's what everybody took (even the English majors). If you were in Physics, Oceonagrophy or any engineering, you took another semester of "Engine Math" (Bessel functionas and other junk). I still have my book (was a geek and took it as an elective). But I know physicists (from other schools) had a different book which went into even mroe esoteric diff eqs and other stuff.)

Oh...and ever heard of the necktie function?

[TCO]

Yes, I've heard that about Jackson. I bought (and still have) a copy of Wangsness, from when I was going to audit E/M. Didn't follow through...

[TCO]

err...maybe its the bowtie function.

[TCO]

Bessel is useful for certain types of problems: time-dependant heat transfer in nuclear cores (only needed for accidents). the time independant ones serve otherwise. Also vibrating drum membranes.

[Ramo]

"Engine math"? Odd name for a (PDE?) course.

[Ecthy]

Maybe it was a private school.

[KrazyHorse]

I've heard of it. Don't know what it is (heard it in passing).

Here in Quebec we have a screwed-up education system. We go to Grade 11, then go through 2 years CEGYP (like junior college) then through 3 years undergrad. Then they give you a gold star.

In high schoold we didn't touch calc. CEGYP I took: 1 sem. diff. calc., 1 sem. integr. calc, 1 sem. linear alg (for dodos; matrix math, basically), 1 sem. multivariable calc (sort of silly; can be understood as simple extension of single-variable). Plus all physics courses (only interesting one was EM, where we got a bunch of divs and grads and curls pounded into us because it was honours course, plus we got taugh some PDEs without being told they were PDEs).

Uni we took ODEs, vector calc (more divs and curls, really stupid course, but immense workload), alg. 1, anal.1 (hah. anal 101). Then it was alg.2 (linear alg. for non-dummies), complex anal., anal. 2, then PDEs, alg.3, anal.3, Diff. Geo, then alg. 4, Geo/Top1&2. Along the way we learnt basic stats in our lab courses (error analysis, etc.), adv. stats in our stat mech courses, etc. Sometimes math came in physics class (if we hadn't learnt it yet) like some complex anal. we did in a "Relativity and Modern Physics" class in first semester (sounds dodo, but wasn't).

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ramo
"Engine math"? Odd name for a (PDE?) course.

He went to a trade school.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by GP
Bessel is useful for certain types of problems: time-dependant heat transfer in nuclear cores (only needed for accidents). the time independant ones serve otherwise. Also vibrating drum membranes.

Yeah. I know. PDE teacher was a physicist by training (and an ******* by choice, but that's a different story)

[KrazyHorse]

Bessel functions are also solutions to angular dependence of solutions to Hamiltonian for electrons in orbit

Or are those the spherical harmonics? Getting confused...

[Ecthy]

A confession....

[Eli]

*ahem*

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