Technical skills are developed. Emphasis will be on approximation techniques and numerical methods for solving matrix, integral, and differential equations arising in physics. Born approximation, partial waves. Electron gas theory of metals, band theory of solids. Research in current areas of physics.
Students perform research projects with individual faculty members.
Students in physics and physical oceanography may coordinate their research project with a faculty member of the Graduate School of Oceanography. Infinite series, complex analysis, analytic properties, conformal mapping, calculus of residues. Fourier analysis and Laplace transforms. Conservation theorems and symmetry properties. Central force motion.