Mathematical tools for physicists

Tutoring, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, 2016

Tutoring for the undergraduate course Mathematical tools for physicists (Rechnungsmethoden) in which a nearly exhaustive set of mathematical tools needed for undergraduate theoretical physics is taught in the span of a semester.

Contents

Outlined in the homepage in German. Calculus, vector spaces, euclidean spaces, vector products, multidimensional integrals, partial derivatives, vector fields, linear algebra, Taylor series, differential equations, optimization with boundary conditions, Fourier series, complex analysis.

My role

As part of the lecture the students are split up into classes of 15-20 students that are lead by tutors, of which I was one. The contents of the lectures of the respective week are recalled and questions are discussed. The final exam score can be improved by solving all the homework throughout the semester. The correction of the homework (and parts of the exam) are also tasks of the tutor, so every week I discussed the past weeks homework and presented some example exercises for the next set of exercises.