Chemistry 8541, Fall Semester, 2007

Dynamics

11:15-12:05, Monday, Wednesday, Friday (09/05/2007 - 12/12/2007)

283 Kolthoff Hall


Instructor:

Donald G. Truhlar

  • Office: 247 Smith Hall
  • Office hours: anytime  on Monday, Wednesday or Friday

Teaching Assistant:

none

Announcements:

The class moved permanently from the originally scheduled 140 Kolthoff to 283 Kolthoff.  On Oct. 1, we met in room 668A Kolthoff.

 

Syllabus: (pdf)


Schedule:

Date Leader Assigned reading
Weeks 1-15 Introduction to applied mathematics for graduate physical chemistry
and
Introduction to classical dynamics
1. W. Sept. 5
Introduction to course
...
2. F. Sept. 7 McQ Chapter 1
3. M. Sept. 10 McQ Chapter 2
4. W. Sept. 12 McQ Chapter 3
5. F. Sept. 14 McQ Chapter 4
6. M. Sept. 17 Bernoulli numbers, Riemann sheets
7. W. Sept. 19 McQ Chapter 5
8. F. Sept. 21 McQ Complete Chapter 5: principal normal
McQ Start chapter 6: perfect differential
9. M. Sept. 24 Mc Q Chapter 6 continued: vector transformations, gradient, fields
10. W. Sept. 26 McQ Complete Chapter 6: tangent planes
McQ Start Chapter 7
11. F. Sept. 28  McQ Continue Chapter 7
12. M. Oct. 1 McQ Almost Complete Chapter 7
13. W. Oct. 3 McQ Start Chapter 8
14. F. Oct. 5 McQ Complete Chapter 8
15. M. Oct. 8 McQ Start Chapter 9
16. W. Oct. 10 McQ Complete Chapter 9; CS Appendix II
17. F. Oct. 12
midterm planning
...
18. M. Oct. 15 McQ Start Chapter 10
19. W. Oct. 17 McQ Complete Chapter 10
20. F. Oct. 19 McQ Start Chapter 11
21. M. Oct. 22 McQ Complete Chapter 11
22. W. Oct. 24 CS Chapters 1-2
23. F. Oct. 26 CS Chapters 3-4
24. M. Oct. 29 CS Chapter 5
25. W. Oct. 31 CS Chapter 6
26. F. Nov. 2 CS Chapter 7
27. M. Nov. 5  CS Start Chapter 8
28. W Nov. 7 CS Complete Chapter 8 and Appendix III
29. F. Nov. 9 CS Chapter 9
30. M. Nov. 12 CS Start Chapter 10
31. W Nov. 14 CS Start Chapter 10
32. F. Nov. 16 CS Chapter 11 and Liouville's Theorem
33. M. Nov. 19 J. Hinke McQ 12: Ordinary differential equations and Bessel functions
34. W Nov. 21 M. Huang McQ 14.1: Legendre polynomials and the multipole expansion
35. M Nov. 26 H. Heldenbrand McQ 14.2:  Orthogonal polynominals
36. W Nov. 28 N. Barnett McQ 14.3, 14.4: Sturm-Liouville theory and eigenfunction expansions
37. F Nov. 30 H. Leverentz McQ 14.5: Green’s functions
38. M Dec. 3 B. Hon McQ 15: Fourier series
39. W Dec. 5 Y. Lu McQ 16.1, 16.2:  Poisson equation; electrostatics
40. F Dec. 7 J. Han McQ 17.5, 17.6: Fourier transforms
41. M Dec. 10 E. Kuechler McQ 20.1–20.4: Euler-Lagrange theory
42. W Dec. 12 B. Skjerven McQ 21: Stochastic processes

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