School of Mathematics
Course 231 1998-99 (SF Mathematics, SF Theoretical Physics, optional JS & SS Two-subject Moderatorship )
Lecturer: Professor Sen
Requirements/prerequisites: 131

Duration:
Number of lectures per week: 3

Assessment:
End-of-year Examination: One three hour examination, Professor Crane: 100%

Description:
Curvilinear Coordinates, Vector Analysis
Gauss and Stokes Theorem
Fourier Series and transforms
Potential Theory, Legendre polynomial
Associated Legendre function, Spherical Harmonic, Bessel function
Wave equation and diffusion equation, Green's function
Calculus of Variation

Computational methods, Numerical Integration of Boundary Value Problems (ODEs), Matrix methods for computing.

Objectives:
Introduction to basic techniques of applied mathematics, with application.

Jun 10, 1998 Jun 10, 1998