الخميس، 9 فبراير 2017

Useful Mathematical Techniques for Physicists

Here is a link to a document that I am continuously working on. It is a list of mathematical techniques and topics that tend to pop up in the middle of calculations, particularly in advanced classes of mechanics, electrodynamics, relativity etc. I will continue to update and improve these notes. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

The link:
https://www.scribd.com/document/347750166/Useful-Mathematical-Techniques-for-Physicists
 
 
 

 

Companion notes to Zwiebach's "A First Course in String Theory"

These notes are intended to accompany my string theory for undergraduates course, first taught in the spring semester of 2017. The material herein are based on Barton Zwiebach's excellent textbook "A First Course in String Theory,'' 2nd Edition, 2009, Cambridge University Press., in the hope that they would serve my students as easy reference as well as put in perspective the 'big picture.' The notes are perpetually a work in progress and I will continuously update them. The reading assignments I gave to the class are listed in the appendix. If you are teaching yourself string theory using Zwiebach's book, you might want to follow these readings and use the notes as a supplement. The order of the material as well as the content was chosen for students who come in not necessarily knowing special relativity, advanced electrodynamics, or quantum mechanics. The only prerequisites to this class were introductory physics and multi-variable calculus.