Uni-Notes:爱丁堡大学理论物理学学位的笔记

# Uni-Notes These are my notes for the five year [theoretical physics MPyhs degree](https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergraduate/our-degrees/degree-programmes/theoretical-physics) taught at the [University of Edinburgh](https://www.ed.ac.uk/). I started this course in 2018 and will graduate in 2023. These notes are compiled based material delivered in lectures as well as the lecture notes provided, various textbooks, and other sources. These notes are correct to the best of my knowledge but since they are my personal notes they are likely to contain errors, typos, and mistakes. Please inform me if you find any sort of mistake or if you simply think that there is an improvement that could be made. The notes assume knowledge of the courses from previous years and possibly of other courses run at the same time. That said the notes should be fairly standalone for anyone with an equivalent amount of maths and/or physics education as I had at the time that I took the course. The original purpose of making these notes was to learn LaTeX. This means that for the first few courses (in particular physics 1A and maths for physics 1) I didn't take proper notes I just wrote down formulae without much explanation. These may still be useful for revision or looking up formulae but only if you are familiar with the content. For later courses these notes became part of how I learned the course, I would watch a lecture and take messy notes that where just enough for me to understand and recall the importamt parts of the lecture. After the lecture I would then write up my notes compiling my own notes, the lecture notes, and any other relevant sources. For this reason the notes becomes more verbose for later courses. If you have spotted a mistake, have a suggestion or improvement in mind or think something is badly written/explained please contact me, either by creating an issue or emailing me at s1824487@ed.ac.uk. ## Courses Here are all the courses I took. (y) denotes a year long course, (s1) a course that was only in semester 1 and (s2) a course that was only in semester 2. ### Year 3 * [Electromagnetism](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-3/Electromagnetism) (y) * [Principles of Quantum Mechanics](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-3/Principles-of-Quantum-Mechanics) (y) * [Thermal Physics](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-3/Thermal-Physics) (y) * [Fourier Analysis and Statistics](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-3/Fourier-Analysis-and-Statistics) (s1) - Composed of two parts: * [Fourier Analysis](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-3/Fourier-Analysis-and-Statistics/Fourier-Analysis) * [Statistics](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-3/Fourier-Analysis-and-Statistics/Statistics) * [Numerical Recipes](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-3/Numerical-Recipes) (s1) * [Methods of Theoretical Physics](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-3/Methods-of-Theoretical-Physics) (s2) - Composed of two parts: * [Vectors, Tensors, and Continuum Mechanics (VTCM)](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-3/Methods-of-Theoretical-Physics/Vectors-Tensors-and-Continuum-Mechanics) * [Complex Analysis (CA)](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-3/Methods-of-Theoretical-Physics/Complex-Analysis) ### Year 2 * [Linear Algebra and Several Variable Calculus (LASVC)](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-2/LASVC) (s1) * [Modern Physics](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-2/Modern-Physics) (s1) * [Dynamics and Vector Calculus](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-2/Dynamics-and-Vector-Calculus) (s2) - Composed of two parts: * [Dynamics](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-2/Dynamics-and-Vector-Calculus/Dynamics) * [Vector Calculus](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-2/Dynamics-and-Vector-Calculus/Vector-Calculus) * [Physics of Fields and Matter](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-2/Physics-of-Fields-and-Matter) (s2) - Composed of two parts: * [Fields](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-2/Physics-of-Fields-and-Matter/Fields) * [Matter](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-2/Physics-of-Fields-and-Matter/Matter) As well as these courses, which are a compulsory part of the theoretical physics degree, I also took two courses with the School of Engineering: * [Analogue Circuits 2](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-2/Optional-Courses/Analogue-Circuits-2) (s1) * [Fluid Mechanics 2](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-2/Optional-Courses/Fluid-Mechanics-2) (s1) In both cases the '2' refers to the fact that this course is delivered in second year, there is no corresponding '1' course but some knowledge of previous engineering courses is assumed, however first year physics courses are sufficient prerequisits to enter these courses. ### Year 1 * [Maths for Physics 1 (MFP1)](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-1/MFP1) (s1) \[Summary, no full notes\] * [Physics 1A](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-1/Physics-1A) (s1) \[Summary, no full notes\] * [Maths for Physics 2 (MFP2)](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-1/MFP2) (s2) * [Physics 1B](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-1/Physics-1B) (s2) As well as these courses, which are a compulsory part of the theoretical physics degree, I also took one course with the School of Chemistry, and one course with the School of Mathematics: * Chemistry 1A (s1) \[No notes\] * [Proofs and Problem Soloving](https://github.com/WilloughbySeago/Uni-Notes/tree/main/year-1/Optional-Courses/PPS) (s2) ## Sources While this material is based mostly on material delivered by lecturers in lecture form and also as lecture notes these notes were created by me. Where appropriate I have cited sources but any unsourced material is either my own or that of the lecturer/textbook mentioned at the start of the document. Any mistakes in these notes are my own, as are any views expressed within. ### Lecturers As the main source of this material I would like to thank the following people who lectured for at least one course, in no particular order: * [Dr Ross Galloway](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/ross-galloway) * [Dr Will Hossack](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/will-hossack) * [Dr John Loveday](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/john-loveday) * [Dr Kristel Torokoff](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/kristel-torokoff) * [Dr Joe Zuntz](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/joe-zuntz) * [Prof Victorial Martin](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/victoria-martin) * [Prof Alex Murphy](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/alex-murphy) * [Prof Philip Clark](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/philip-clark) * [Prof Judy Hardy](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/judy-hardy) * [Dr David Laurenson](https://www.eng.ed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-david-laurenson) * [Prof Rebecca Cheung](https://www.eng.ed.ac.uk/about/people/prof-rebecca-cheung) * [Prof Romeel Dave](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/romeel-dave) * [Prof Roman Zwicky](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/roman-zwicky) * [Dr Stewart Williams](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/stewart-williams) * [Dr Simon Titmuss](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/simon-titmuss) * [Dr Andreas Hermann](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/andreas-hermann) * [Dr Jamie Cole](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/jamie-cole) * [Prof Jorge Peñarrubia](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/jorge-penarrubia) * [Prof Andy Lawrence](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/andy-lawrence) * [Dr Bartlomiej Waclaw](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/bartlomiej-waclaw) * [Dr Britton Smith](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/britton=smith) * [Prof Luigi Del Debio](https://www.ph.ed.uk/people/luigi-del-debio)