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This home page stems from a desire to
update some basic electro physics drawn from lectures and seminars presented at
the
Topics included in this website are grouped mainly into two
intimately related categories: physical fields and the mathematics used for
their description. As the difference between these categories is difficult to
adequately describe, emphasis is placed on basics rather than details. A
significant computer feature of the information on the web site is that it
provides users with graphic real time algorithmic solutions of mathematical
equations, with parameters interactively adjustable by the user in real time.
Field topics are listed first and are followed by sections on computational
physics. A brief tutorial on an
interactive graphic language IGL, used for algorithmic computer solutions of
typical electrophysics problems is included in the
section on Computational Physics.
The following links point to preliminary presentations and will be
updated periodically:
Classical and Quantum Description of Particles and Waves
Deterministic vs Stochastic and
Turbulent Fields
Band Properties of Periodic Crystals
Alternative
Wave Representations
Operators,
Eigenfunctions, Green Functions, Variational
Methods
For those interested in the
art and history of learning and communication of ideas, links to Consilience and the Brain-Mind
connection should be examined. These subjects review the growth of the
scientific method and contain a personalized account of current views of
brain-mind phenomena.
The programs and data herein have been written using Design
Science MathType 5, Microsoft Word, which produce htm (hypertext markup language) and pdf
(postscript document file) files, all viewable by an internet browsers. It
is suggested that Internet viewers use either the freely available Microsoft
Internet Explorer 5+ or Netscape Communicator 5+ browsers. For user
interactivity, viewing and solution of mathematical equations, an interactive
graphic language (IGL), written in Sun Java 1.3.1, is built into this web
site.. The current version of Java is automatically downloadable from http://www.sun.com/java. For viewing the pdf files, one requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader, freely
downloadable from the website http://www.adobe.com/.
Comments and criticisms on the above writings are invited
and can be sent automatically via normal email by clicking on N Marcuvitz.
University Professor Emeritus,
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