28889 - Introduction to Mathematical Physics

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Francesco Mainardi
  • Credits: 9
  • SSD: MAT/07
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Atmospheric physics and Meteorology (cod. 8008)

Course contents

The course consistes of lectures on black board + Skill on Fourier Analysis with MATLAB at the Informatics Laboratory of the Department of Physics (Via Irnerio 46, 40126 BOLOGNA) The program concerns Functions of complex variable, Laplace and Fourier transforms, Fourier Series, Hilbert Spaces, Orthogonal functions, Special functions: Gamma, Beta, Erf, Mittag-Leffler. Diffusion equation solved via Integral trasformos (Laplace-Fourier)

Readings/Bibliography

- Lecture Notes in English: Methods and Problems in Mathematical Physics by F. Mainardi

- F. Mainardi: Fractional Calculus and Waves in Linear Viscoelasticity, Imperial College Press - World Scientific 2010

- G.B. Arfken, H.J. Weber and F.E Harris: Mathematical Methods for Physicists (7-th ed.) Elsevier 2012.

- B. Davies: Integral Transforms and Their Applications, 3-rd Ed. Springer 2002.

- H. Jeffreys and B. Swirles Jeffreys, Methods of Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1972

Assessment methods

Written exam with 3 exercises (books and lecture notes are admitted) + oral exam

Links to further information

http://www.fracalmo.org

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Mainardi