
Mathematical Physics Allowed material: No material is allowed. 1
... (a) What is saddle point approximation and when is it useful? (b) Describe at least three ways of summing infinite series. (c) What are advanced and retarded Green’s functions and when are they useful? (d) Consider an oil spill in the Baltic Sea. Assume that you know the density of oil in different ...
... (a) What is saddle point approximation and when is it useful? (b) Describe at least three ways of summing infinite series. (c) What are advanced and retarded Green’s functions and when are they useful? (d) Consider an oil spill in the Baltic Sea. Assume that you know the density of oil in different ...
January 2016 - Stony Brook University
... (CLOSED BOOK EXAM) This is a two part exam. In part A, solve 4 out of 5 problems for full credit. In part B, solve 4 out of 5 problems for full credit. Indicate below which problems you have attempted by circling the appropriate numbers: Part A: ...
... (CLOSED BOOK EXAM) This is a two part exam. In part A, solve 4 out of 5 problems for full credit. In part B, solve 4 out of 5 problems for full credit. Indicate below which problems you have attempted by circling the appropriate numbers: Part A: ...
Parallelization
... • A PDE is a Partial Differential Equation • This is an equation with derivatives of at least two variables in it. • In general, partial differential equations are much more difficult to solve analytically than are ordinary differential equations ...
... • A PDE is a Partial Differential Equation • This is an equation with derivatives of at least two variables in it. • In general, partial differential equations are much more difficult to solve analytically than are ordinary differential equations ...