• Call or leave a message at 768-2504, or
• Leave a note in the Physics Department Office - 102 Fondren Science, or
• send me e-mail: <scalise@smu.edu>

• Midterm - Wednesday 2 October in class.
• Final - Thursday 12 December 2013, 3:00-6:00pm in room 155 Fondren Science.

• Homework - 60% (drop lowest)
• Midterm Examination - 20%
• Final Examination - 20%

91.5 < A  < 100
87.5 < A- < 91.5
83.5 < B+ < 87.5
79.0 < B  < 83.5
75.0 < B- < 79.0
71.0 < C+ < 75.0
62.5 < C  < 71.0
50.0 < D  < 62.5
 0.0 < F  < 50.0

• Mathematical Methods For Physicists by George B. Arfken and Hans J. Weber
  # ISBN-10: 0120598760
  # ISBN-13: 978-0120598762
• Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary L. Boas
  # ISBN-10: 0471198269
  # ISBN-13: 978-0471198260
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Erwin Kreyszig
  # ISBN-10: 0471488852
  # ISBN-13: 978-0471488859
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Peter V. O'Neil
  # ISBN-10: 0534552080
  # ISBN-13: 978-0534552084

• Pages 1 - 10 (PDF format)
• Pages 11 - 20 (PDF format)
• Pages 21 - 29 (PDF format)
• Green functions (PDF format), Green functions (1/2), Green functions (2/2)
• Nonlinear Simple Pendulum
• Pages 30 - 40 (PDF format)
• Pages 41 - 50 (PDF format)
• Pages 51 - 55 (PDF format)
• Pages 56 - 66 (PDF format) Separation of variables 1/3, 2/3, 3/3.
• Pages 67 - 77 (PDF format)
• Pages 78 - 88 (PDF format)
• Variational Calculus, Feynman Lectures: Principle of Least Action
• Monte Carlo Techniques - guest lecture by Professor Stephen Sekula
• Complex Numbers; Complex Variables and Functions; Conformal Mapping; Contour Integration and Residues; Laurent Expansion; Laurent Series Examples; Residue Examples
• Matrix Operations
• Group Theory

• Capture of slow neutrons, G. Breit, E. Wigner, Phys. Rev. 49, 519-531 (1936)
• Nuclear reactions and nuclear fission

• homework #1 (PDF format) - due Friday 6 September 2013 at 11:59:59pm
  (Mathematica example notebook PDF format,Fourier.nb)
• homework #2 (PDF format) - due Friday 13 September 2013 at 11:59:59pm
• homework #3 (PDF format) - due Friday 20 September 2013 at 11:59:59pm
• homework #4 (PDF format) - due Friday 27 September 2013 at 11:59:59pm
• No homework due on Friday 4 October 2013 because of the midterm exam.
• homework #5 (PDF format) - due Friday 11 October 2013 at 11:59:59pm
• No homework due on Friday 18 October 2013 because of Fall Break.
• homework #6 (PDF format) - due Friday 25 October 2013 at 11:59:59pm
• homework #7 (PDF format) - due Friday 1 November 2013 at 11:59:59pm
• homework #8 (PDF format) - due Friday 8 November 2013 at 11:59:59pm
• homework #9 (PDF format) - due Friday 15 November 2013 at 11:59:59pm
• homework #10 (PDF format) - due Friday 22 November 2013 at 11:59:59pm
  You may find the discussion of Olbers' Paradox in chapter 2 of Barbara Ryden's Introduction to Cosmology useful.
  Be careful to use "flat" variables.
• No homework due on Friday 29 November 2013 because of Thanksgiving.
• homework #11 (PDF format) - due Friday 6 December 2013 at 11:59:59pm

• Mandelbrot and Julia Sets in JAVA
• Mandelbrot Set Explorer
• Robust Op Amp Realization of Chua's Circuit by Michael Peter Kennedy
• The Chaos Game (Triangle) Mathematica notebook
• The Chaos Game (Square) Mathematica notebook
• Hennon Map Mathematica notebook