PHYS 508 Fall 2026
PHYS 508 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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Date |
Lectures |
Homework |
|---|---|---|
| 8/26 | Intro to calculus of variations | |
| 8/31 | First integral, Noether theorem | |
| 9/2 | Continuous media & fields | HW2 due 5pm Wed Sept 9 solution |
| 9/7 | (Labor day) | |
| 9/9 | Fluids, natural BCs | HW 3 due 5pm Wed Sept 23 |
| 9/14 | Lagrange multipliers | |
| 9/16 | Functional derivative | |
| 9/21 | Function spaces | |
| 9/23 | Linear diffeqs, Variation of parameters |
HW 4 due 5pm Fri Oct 2 |
| 9/27 | Linear differential operators, formal adjoint |
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| 9/30 | Adjoint BCs, True self-adjointness |
HW 5 due 5pm Wed Oct 7 |