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Lecture Notes, Tutorial Sheets and Hand-in sheets
Any errors in the lecture notes, tutorial and hand-in sheets (should!) have been corrected in these online versions.Lecture notes are available in two formats:
- PDF: Portable Document Format. These notes should be viewable anywhere and printable on most printers.
- PDF-2: refers to `two up' PDF
Lecture Notes
Tutorial Sheets
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Tutorial 1:
(PDF)
Index notation, basis transformations and tensors -- mostly revision
Tutorial 2: (PDF) Tensors, matrices and determinants
Tutorial 3: (PDF) Tensors, pseudotensors and invariant tensors
Tutorial 4: (PDF) Rotation and reflection tensors, the inertia tensor
Tutorial 5: (PDF) The inertia tensor, diagonal tensors, Taylor expansions
Tutorial 6: (PDF) Curvilinear coordinates
Tutorial 7: (PDF) Vector calculus revision, delta functions and electrostatics
Tutorial 8: (PDF) Electrostatics
Tutorial 9: (PDF) More electrostatics
Tutorial 10: (PDF) Magnetostatics
Tutorial 11: (PDF) More magnetostatics
Hand-in Sheets
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Hand-in 1:
(PDF)
Tensors, curvilinear cooordinates, electrostatics, and more
Hand-in 2: (PDF) Electrostatics (Submission deadline: 10:00am on Friday, 24 November 2023)
Lecture and tutorial times
- Lectures are on Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00-10:50 in JCMB Lecture Theatre C
The first lecture is on Tuesday September 19, 2023.
*** There will be an "extra" lecture in JCMB 5326 on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 11:10. This is the week 1 tutorial slot; there will be no tutorial in week 1. ***
- Tutorial workshops are held on Wednesdays 11:10-13:00pm in JCMB 5326.
The first tutorial workshop is on Wednesday, September 27, 2022 in JCMB 5326.
- Problem solving is an integral part of the course and you are expected to attend the tutorial workshop every week for the entire two hours, and to work through the problems on the tutorial sheets.