Homework page for PHYS 3496; Fall 2025

The homework problems will be posted on this web page, the most recent ones on top. You will receive the assignments also on Crowdmark and you will have to submit the solutions on Crowdmark too; to learn how to do that please click on this link.

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Chapter 13 (Boas)

• Thursday, September 11: Read Section 5; and do Problems 5.2 (b), 5.3 (b) (due on Monday, September 22, on Crowdmark.) Also, review Legendre’s Equation and the Legendre polynomials (Chapter 12, Sections 2-10); here is a brief summary.
• Tuesday, September 9: Finish reading Section 2; and do Problems 2.2 and 2.9 (due on Monday, September 22; you will receive the full assignment on Crowdmark on Thursday.)

Hint for Problem 2.2: You may start with Equation (2.9)- but with 20 instead of 10 since the width of the plate is 20 in this problem; then use the given boundary condition at the bottom edge of the plate to get the coefficients in the expansion. Also, review Bessel’s Equation and the Bessel functions (Chapter 12, Sections 12-15 and 19); we will use those in the next lecture; here is a brief summary.

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• Thursday, September 4: Read Section 1 and start reading Section 2. Also read the Course Outline and review what you learned in PHYS 2496 on Fourier series, Bessel functions and Legendre polynomials.

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