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Lectures, Fall 2009
Physics 245

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This lecture schedule was last modified: 27 August, 2009

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

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

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

21 September                   Series - taylor / polynomial
23 September                   Series - power series II 
24 September                   Series - Fourier I
25 September                   Series - Fourier II

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

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

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

19 October                     NO CLASS -- Fall Break
21 October                     Work on TH Exam 
22 October                     Work on TH Exam 
23 October                     EXAM 3 

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

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

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

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

23 November                    NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving
25 November                    NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving
26 November                    NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving
27 November                    NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving

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

07 December                    Eigenvalues / eigenvectors
09 December                    Eigenvalues / eigenvectors
10 December                    Problem day
11 December                    Exam 6

14 December                    Semester Review / Q and A
17 December                    Final Exam

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