1  Introduction

Welcome to second year Mathematical Physics. This unit is divided into two sections Part A - Differentiation, Integration and Vector Calculus and Part B - Linear Algebra and Fourier Series.

1.1 Course logistics

You should familiarize yourself with the blackboard page for this unit. This is the main source of information for this unit. The lecture and problems/example class schedule should appear in your personal timetable.

Lectures will be delivered in person three times a week along with one problems class a week starting in week 2.

1.2 Textbooks

There are several textbooks that you may find useful: Mathematical methods in the physical sciences by Mary Boas and Mathematical methods for physics and engineering by Riley, Hobson, and Bence. Once we move on to vector calculus you may also like to work through some of the first chapter of Introduction to Electrodynamics by Griffiths. All of these texts are listed in the reading list and are available digitally and physically in the University Library.