Student Solution Manual for Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering Third Edition

The second edition of Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering carried more than twice as many exercises, based on its various chapters, as did the first. In the Preface we discussed the general question of how such exercises should be treated but, in the end, decided to provide hints and outline answers to all problems, as in the first edition. This decision was an uneasy one as, on the one hand, it did not allow the exercises to be set as totally unaided homework that could be used for assessment purposes, but, on the other, it did not give a full explanation of how to tackle a problem when a student needed explicit guidance or a model answer.

In order to allow both of these educationally desirable goals to be achieved, we have, in the third edition, completely changed the way this matter is handled. All of the exercises from the second edition, plus a number of additional ones testing the newly added material, have been included in penultimate subsections of the appropriate, sometimes reorganised, chapters. Hints and outline answers are given, as previously, in the final subsections, but only to the odd-numbered exercises. This leaves all even-numbered exercises free to be set as unaided homework, as described below.

For the four hundred plus odd-numbered exercises, complete solutions are available, to both students and their teachers, in the form of this manual; these are in addition to the hints and outline answers given in the main text.