Mathematical Foundations of Physics B

Lecture in summer term 2024.

Lecture: Thore Posske
Lecture: Fri, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., Jungiusstr. 9, Lecture hall 3 except for June 14 (Lecture Hall 1)
Schedule: No lecture: April 12, travel; May 24, Pentecost
Last lecture: Fri, July 12.
Special lectures: July 19: preparation for exams, send questions in advance.

Exercises:
Tue, 3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m., Jungiusstr. 9, SR 1, Martin Bonkhoff
Tue, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Jungiusstr. 9, SR 1, Anshuman Tripathi (English)
Fri, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Lecture Hall 3 except for June 14 (Lecture Hall 1), Felix Gerken

Tutorial:
Jungiusstr. 11, HS INF, Thursdays, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m..
Rachele Sama
Tobias Loewe

Corrections:
Victor Danescu
Moodle page for corrections
Deadlines: Mondays each week starting from April 15.

Script

Please see below for a handwritten script. The digital version is created by Damjan Vukovic Pajkic and Johannes Kratz on the basis of the handwritten script shortly after the lecture. Please contact them in case of questions and comments.
Current version of the script.

Exam

Exam/orals to be scheduled

Content

Lecture 4 (May 3)
Coordinate change in integrals, Vector fields
Script 4 | Exercise Sheet 4 |
Lecture 3 (April 26)
Coordinate transformation
Script 3 | Exercise Sheet 3 |
Lecture 2 (April 19)
Partial derivatives cont., Taylor expansion, Multidimensional integrals
Script 2 | Exercise Sheet 2 |
Lecture 1 (April 5)
Motivation, outlook, and multivariate functions, partial derivatives
Script 1 | Exercise Sheet 1 |

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Additional material

Intuition about the gradient of a fuction
Intuition about the divergence of a vector field
Commutation of partial derivatives
Scripts of Christoph Schweigert, for the mathematically interested ones