September 21, 2016

Problem Solving in Theoretical

Physics
Course organiser: Roger Horsley
email: rhorsley@ph.ed.ac.uk
web: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/rhorsley
tel: (0131)-650-6481
room: 4419
Team: RH, Vanessa Smer, Andries Waelkens
Aim: to ensure that everybody has an appropriate background in problem
solving in TP.
Approximate topics/approximate order:
Complex analysis

[2 weeks]

Tensors and fields

[2 weeks]

Lagrangian dynamics

[1 week]

Special relativity

[1 week]

Electromagnetic theory

[2 weeks]

Quantum mechanics

[2 weeks]

Statistical mechanics

[1 week]

One workshop/week: Wednesday 11:10-13:00 Higgs Centre, room 4305, (11 in

total)
Assessment
Counts as 10 credits
1 assignment/week consisting of 2 questions each of 10 marks
Best 10 assignments (out of 11) count
Homework sheet handed out at end of workshop hand in to the TO by
the latest on the following Wednesday 11:00am
Marked solutions can be collected from the TO at the end of the following
Wednesday workshop
You can discuss the hand-in problems together, but you must write your
solutions independently