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Lectures, Fall 2010
Physics 201

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This lecture schedule was last modified: 27 August, 2010

Date                           Material
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30 August                      Intro / Operations and Operators
01 September                   Functions and delta function
02 September                   Inversion and tranc. functions
03 September                   Linearity (I)

06 September                   Linearity (II)
08 September                   Vectors - bases and orthogonality
09 September                   Vectors - inner and outer products
10 September                   Vectors - ip/op & Complex numbers (I)

13 September                   Complex numbers (II)
15 September                   Problem Day
16 September                   EXAM 1
17 September                   Series - orthogonality and bases

20 September                   Series - taylor / polynomial
22 September                   Series - power series II 
23 September                   Series - Fourier I
24 September                   Series - Fourier II

27 September                   Series - Convergence 
29 September                   Series - Problem Day
30 September                   EXAM 2
01 October                     Integration I (reimann, polynomial, functions)

04 October                     Integration II (parts / substitution / book)
06 October                     Integration III (flux)
07 October                     Integration IV (Mathematica)
08 October                     Integration V (line integrals)

11 October                     Integration VI (vorticity)
13 October                     Differentiation I (partial deriv)
14 October                     Differentiation II (gradients)
15 October                     Differentiation III (full differential)

18 October                     NO CLASS -- Fall Break
20 October                     Work on TH Exam 
21 October                     Work on TH Exam 
22 October                     EXAM 3 

25 October                     ODEs I (defns, numerical solution)
27 October                     ODEs II (first order; Guess, Sep, IF)
28 October                     ODEs III (practice and initial conditions)
29 October                     ODEs IVa (2nd order ODEs - Homogeneous)

01 November                    ODEs IVb (2nd order ODEs - Inhomogenous)
03 November                    ODEs IVc (2nd order - fourier)
04 November                    ODEs V (fourier)
05 November                    ODEs VI (fourier)

08 November                    Problem Day 
10 November                    Exam 4
11 November                    Geom I (grad)
12 November                    Geom II (div and flux)

15 November                    Geom III (curl and vorticity)
17 November                    Geom IV  (cons laws and problems)
18 November                    Problem day
19 November                    Exam 5

22 November                    NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving
24 November                    NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving
25 November                    NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving
26 November                    NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving

29 November                    Lin Alg (notation, sum, mult)
01 December                    Determinant
02 December                    Inverse and Cramer
03 December                    Numerical / rotation and inv

06 December                    Eigenvalues / eigenvectors
08 December                    Eigenvalues / eigenvectors
09 December                    Problem day
10 December                    Exam 6

13 December                    Semester Review / Q and A
16 December                    Final Exam

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