Methods of Mathematical Physics I

IUCAA - NCRA Graduate School

To contact me anytime, remember that my office number in NCRA is F236; the phone number is (020) 25719270. In case you want to contact me and do not find me in office, send me an email to tirth at ncra.tifr.res.in.
Any information/updates/news about the course will be put up at the webpage http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in/~tirth/Teaching/MMP-I/index.html. Make sure you check the webpage periodically. The assignments would also be put up in the same webpage.
The course will consist of approximately 21 lectures (of 1 hour each) at the rate of 3 lectures per week. The lectures will be over by 21 September. In case we lose any lectures because of holidays etc, we will hold extra lectures so that we can still finish by the same date.
There will be several take-home assignment sets and one final examination (tentatively during the week 24-28 September) which will be used for evaluating the course.
The evaluation procedure is the following: Your final average score will be computed giving 60% weightage to final exam and 40% to the assignments.

George B. Arfken & Hans J. Weber (1995), Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Academic Press
Roel Snieder (2001), Mathemtical Methods for the Physical Sciences, Cambridge University Press
Jon Mathews & R. L. Walker, Mathemtical Methods of Physics (2nd Edition), Addison-Wesley Publishing Company