Welcome to physics 466 for 2013.

We will be using a textbook called Physical Mathematics published by Cambridge University Press.
Amazon sells the hardcover edition for $76.50 and the Kindle one for $54.40.

The videos of the lectures are at panda.unm.edu/cahill.
There also is a list of errata at panda.unm.edu/cahill.  Please send new errata to me at cahill@unm.edu.

I started writing this book when Elsevier bought Academic Press the publisher of the book by Arfken et al. which I had been using.  Elsevier has made much of modern science inaccessible to all but the wealthiest institutions and individuals because they charge so much for their many journals and books.  I am at war with Elsevier.   When you start writing papers, you should post them on the arXiv (arxiv.org) and submit them to journals not owned by Elsevier or Wiley.  Pass it on.

Here is what I plan to cover in this course:
Linear algebra:             3 weeks
Fourier series:                1.5
Fourier transforms:      1.5
Infinite series:               1
Complex variables:       3
Differential equations:  3
Integral equations:        0.5
Legendre polynomials:  1.5
Bessel functions:            1.5

These topics are discussed in the first nine chapters of the book.

All homework problems are stated in the book Physical Mathematics.

I will be doing some of the homework problems during the weekly problem session which is held on Wednesdays
at 7 pm in room 184.

Put homework in Zhixian Yu's mailbox by 4 PM each Friday.

List of problems for homework assignments:

First homework assignment:  Do problems 1-14 of chapter 1 by Tuesday, 27 August.
Second homework assignment:  Do problems 15-28 of chapter 1 by Tuesday, 3 September.
Third homework assignment:  Do problems 29-40 of chapter 1 and 1-2 of chapter 2 by Thursday, 12 September.
Fourth homework assignment:  Do problems 3-16 of chapter 2 by Thursday, 19 September.
Fifth homework assignment:  Do problems 17-23 of chapter 2 and 1-7 of chapter 3 by Friday, 27 September.
Sixth homework assignment:  Do problems 8-18 of chapter 3 and 1-3 of chapter 4 by Friday, 4 October.
Seventh homework assignment:  Do problems 4-18 of chapter 4 by Tuesday, 15 October.
Eighth homework assignment:  Do problems 19-22 of chapter 4 and 1-10 of chapter 5 by Friday, 18 October.
Ninth homework assignment:  Do problems 11-24 of chapter 5 by Friday, 25 October.
Tenth homework assignment:  Do problems 25-38 of chapter 5 by Friday, 1 November.
Eleventh homework assignment:  Do problems 39-44 of chapter 5 and 1-8 of chapter 6 by Friday, 8 November.
Twelfth homework assignment:  Do problems 9-22 of chapter 6 by Friday, 15 November.
Thirteenth homework assignment:  Do problems 23-37 of chapter 6 by Friday, 22 November.
Fourteenth homework assignment:  Do problems 1-5 of chapter 7 and 1-9 of chapter 8 by Tuesday, 3 Dec-
-ember.
Fifteenth homework assignment:  Do problems 10-16 of chapter 8 and 1-7 of chapter 9 by Friday, 6 December.
Sixteenth homework assignment:  Do problems 8-28 of chapter 7 by Friday, 13 December.