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Course Outline for PHYS 3496; Fall 2024
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- Office: 207 Allen Building, phone
(204)474-6207.
- Lecture Times
and Place: Tuesday and Thursday
11:30 am -12:45 pm in 330 Allen.
- Consultation
Times: Monday and Thursday
2:00-3:00 pm, or by appointment.
Ø Mathematical
Methods for Physicists (7th Edition) by Arfken, Weber and Harris (primary textbook).
Ø Mathematical Methods in the Physical
Sciences (3rd Edition) by Mary L. Boas.
- Synopsis: This course
provides a continuation of the mathematics required for both the Honours and Major programs in Physics and Astronomy.
Topics to be covered:
Ø Partial Differential
Equations (Boas’ Book, Chapter 13, Sections 1-3, 5, 7);
Ø Generalized Coordinate
Systems (Arfken’s Book, Chapter 3, Section 10);
Ø Sturm-Liouville Theory
for Ordinary Differential Equations (Arfken’s Book,
Chapter 8, Sections 1-3); and
Ø Complex Analysis (Arfken’s Book, Chapter 11, Sections 1-9).
- Homework Assignments: There will be a weekly assignment (posted
on http://www2.physics.umanitoba.ca/u/khodr/PHYS3496-F24/homework.html)
in order to help you digest the material. You will receive the assignments
also via the online grading system Crowdmark
and you will have to submit the solutions on Crowdmark
too; to learn how to do that please click on this link https://crowdmark.com/help/completing-and-submitting-an-assignment/. These assignments will
generally be due on Thursdays at 11:59 pm. Since uploading the
solutions may take some time, please do not wait till the last minute to
submit your solutions. Late
assignments will not
be accepted; so please hand in what you have by the due date.
- Midterm Exam: There will be a 75-minute midterm exam,
tentatively scheduled for Thursday, October 24, 2024 during the normal lecture slot. The exam will
consist of questions and problems similar to those found at the end of the
sections/chapters in the book(s). The exam will be closed book, but you
will be permitted to have one 8.5 by 11-inch sheet of notes (both sides)
to aid you. No makeup midterm exam will be given. A fair assessment will
be made for certified absence in a test after the final examination has
been written.
- Final Exam: The final exam will be on all the material
covered during the course. It will be 3 hours in length; the exact date
and time of the exam (in December) will be announced later in class and on
http://www2.physics.umanitoba.ca/u/khodr/PHYS3496-F24.
You will be permitted to have two 8.5 by 11-inch sheets of notes.
- Course Grade: The final grades will be
determined as follows:
Ø Homework Assignments – 25%
Ø Midterm Exam - 25%
Ø Final Exam - 50%
Then the
letter grades will be assigned based on the following chart.
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Percentage
course score
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Letter grade
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90-100 %
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A+
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80-89 %
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A
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75-79 %
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B+
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70-74 %
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B
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65-69 %
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C+
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60-64 %
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C
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50-59 %
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D
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0-49 %
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F
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- Attendance: Perfect attendance is expected.
If you skip classes on a
regular basis (without a valid excuse), your homework assignments may not
be graded.
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Prerequisite: [one of PHYS 2390, MATH
2720, MATH 2721, MATH 2130, MATH 2150, or MATH 2151] and [one of PHYS 2496 or
PHYS 2490].
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Please read this Appendix For Fall
2024 Course Syllabi which
was prepared by the Faculty of Science and includes useful information and resources for the students.