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Mathematical Physics - NOT AVAILABLE IN 2025-2026
School:
Of the Environment
Academic Unit:
Department of Marine Sciences
Level of studies:
Undergraduate
Course Code:
191ΜΥ26Ε
Semester:
Ε
Course Title:
Mathematical Physics – NOT AVAILABLE IN 2025-2026
Credits
5
Course Type:
Specialised general knowledge
Prerequisite Courses:
Prerequisites are the courses Mathematics I and Mathematics II. In practice, essential prerequisites for the course are differential and vector calculus. Attendance and participation in the course is required and unexcused absences may result in failure.
Language of Instruction and Examinations:
Greek
Is the course offered to Erasmus students:
  • (2) Learning Outcomes
  • Learning Outcomes

It is expected that students should learn the material presented in the Syllabus.

  • General Competences

The aim of the course is the introduction to the equations of mathematical physics, which usually are partial differential equations.

  • (3) Syllabus

Integration in higher dimensions: Line integrals and applications, double and triple integrals, surface integrals, the theorems of Green, Stokes and Gauss.

One of the following:

The classical equations of mathematical physics: Laplace equation, the wave equation, the diffusion equation, Maxwell’s equations,

Introduction to fluid mechanics: Navier-Stokes equations and applications.

  • (4) Teaching and Learning Methods - Evaluation
  • Delivery:

Face-to-face

  • Use of Information and Communication Technology:

Communication with students via the e-class platform.

Students are encouraged to use MATHEMATICA.

  • Teaching Methods:
Activity Semester workload
Lectures/Turorials
40
Tutorials
10
Independent study
30
Assignment work
45
Course total
125
  • Student Performance Evaluation:

One problem solved as homework and final exam or two problems solved as homework. Attendance and participation in the course is required and unexcused absences may result in failure. The overall grading scheme is based on a case-by-case evaluation of each student’s growth and progress.

  • (5) Attached Bibliography

– Suggested bibliography:

Class Notes, Mathematical Physics, 90 pages (in Greek).

Bachman, Advanced Calculus Demystified (McGraw-Hill 2007).

-Additional bibliography:

A.J. Chorin and J.E. Marsden, A Mathematical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, (Springer 2000).

I.M. Cohen and P.K. Kundu, Fluid Mechanics, (Academic Press 2007).