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Math

Algebra

Geometry

Boundary Value Problems

  • PDF icon PDF icon PDF icon Three simple boundary value problems demonstrating some of the types of solutions
  • Maple icon Solution to a heat equation scenario with animations (Maple worksheet)
  • PDF icon Maple icon Solving a regular Sturm-Liouville problem and using it to approximate a function
  • PDF icon Eigensolutions to a regular Sturm-Liouville problem
  • Maple icon Using an orthogonal series to approximate a function

Differential Equations

  • PDF icon A 1st-order nonhomogenous ODE solved by using an integrating factor
  • PDF icon A story problem involving a lake with changing volume and salt concentrations
  • PDF icon An inexact ODE solved two different ways
  • PDF icon Variation of parameters
  • PDF icon A nonlinear 2nd-order ODE
  • PDF icon A nonlinear ODE that's missing an independent variable
  • PDF icon A tricky 2nd-order-linear-homogeneous-ODE
  • PDF icon A linear ODE solved two ways: using a Laplace transform and using the method of Undetermined Coenfficients
  • PDF icon A tricky nonlinear IVP
  • PDF icon Using power series to solve an ODE
  • PDF icon Using the Residue Theorem to solve an IVP
  • PDF icon Finding a one-parameter family of solutions
  • Maple icon Finding a one-parameter family of solutions and plotting the direction field (Maple worksheet)
  • PDF icon Solving a system of differential equations using eigenvalues and eigenvectors

Statistics

  • PDF icon Calculating a p-score

Linear Algebra

  • PDF icon Decompose a polynomial into parts within and without a subspace

Calculus

  • PDF icon In which it is determined whether a sequence converges
  • PDF icon In which the flux of a vector field over a closed surface is computed directly
  • PDF icon The same flux problem as above except that the divergence theorem is used instead
  • PDF icon Find the volume of a solid with given base and cross sections.
  • PDF icon Find the arc length of a parametric curve between two points
  • PDF icon In which a line integral is used to compute the mass of a rod whose density varies along its length.
  • PDF icon Lagrange multipliers
  • PDF icon Using Green's Theorem to calculate a line integral about a closed region
  • PDF icon Convergence of power series

Physics

Mechanics

  • Talking 'bout fictitious forces
  • PDF icon A story problem involving projectile motion
  • PDF icon Center of mass
  • PDF icon Circular motion
  • PDF icon Work and energy in a ramp
  • PDF icon How much does the rotation of the Earth affect your weight?
  • PDF icon Physical pendulum
  • PDF icon The probability density function (and more) of a particle undergoing simple harmonic motion

Optics and More

  • PDF icon How to solve lens problems without memorizing a lot of equations
  • PDF icon Ray tracing
  • PDF icon Angular magnification in a simple refracting telescope
  • PDF icon A thermodynamic process
  • PDF icon The famous train/tunnel "paradox" from relativity

Electricity and Magnetism

  • Rutherford scattering
  • PDF icon PDF icon A couple of circuits with resistors solved using Kirchoff's rules
  • PDF icon An RC circuit solved using differential equations
  • PDF icon Power in an electric circuit
  • PDF icon A solenoid

Quantum Mechanics

  • PDF icon What is the probability that a particle in the ground state of the quantum harmonic oscillator will be observed outside the classically allowed region?
  • PDF icon Scattering from a step potential
  • PDF icon The spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ system
  • PDF icon Expanding an observable in terms of eigenvalues and projection operators
  • PDF icon The delta function potential
  • PDF icon How an external magnetic field affects a spin-1/2 particle
  • Maple icon Doubling the width of an infinite square well
  • Maple icon Decomposing a wavefunction into eigenfunctions
  • Maple icon Animating the time evolution of a quantum superposition

Notes

  • PDF icon Chapter 1: Introduction, units, dimensional analysis, significant digits, and scientific notation
  • PDF icon Chapter 2: Motion in one dimension, constant acceleration
  • PDF icon Chapter 3: Motion in two or three dimensions, vectors, relative velocity, circular motion
  • PDF icon Chapters 4/5: Forces and Newton's laws
  • PDF icon Chapters 6/7: Work, energy, and its conservation
  • PDF icon Chapter 8: Impulse, momentum and its conservation, center of mass
  • PDF icon Chapter 9: Rotational motion, moment of inertia, torque
  • PDF icon Chapter 12: Universal gravitation, escape velocity
  • PDF icon Chapter 29: Electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law, displacement current

Chemistry

  • PDF icon A flowchart for determing the pH of acid/base solution
  • PDF icon Can you figure out the concentration of a solution from its pH?
  • PDF icon Solution to an AP free response question involving an acid/base solution
  • PDF icon An illustrated chart showing molecular geometries with examples

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