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Credits: 10 | Convenor: To Be Announced | Semester: 1 (weeks 1 to 6) |
Prerequisites: | essential: MC127, MC126 | desirable: MC144, MC145, MC146, MC147 |
Assessment: | Coursework: 20% | One and a half hour exam: 80% |
Lectures: | 18 | Problem Classes: | 5 |
Tutorials: | none | Private Study: | 52 |
Labs: | none | Seminars: | none |
Project: | none | Other: | none |
Surgeries: | none | Total: | 75 |
To be familiar with the use of the summation convention including the
Kronecker delta and the alternating tensor
.
To know the definitions of, and to be able to use, the vector differential operators grad, div and curl, and the Laplacian.
To be able to work with line, surface and volume integrals.
To be able to state and use in simple cases Green's theorem in the plane, the divergence theorem and Stokes' theorem.
Introduction of suffix notation and the summation convention including
and
.
The vector differential operators grad, div and curl.
Line, surface and volume integrals with particular application to the divergence theorem and Stokes' theorem.
M. R. Spiegel, Vector Analysis, Schaum Outline Series.
H. P. Hsu, Applied Vector Calculus, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Outline Series.
E. A. Maxwell, Coordinate Geometry with Vectors and Tensors, CUP? Probably out of print..
J. Gilbert, Guide to Mathematical Methods, MacMillan.
P.C. Matthews,
Vector Calculus,
Springer
There are in addition a number of Vector Analysis texts located at 515.63 in
the Library.
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Last updated: 10/4/2000
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