PHGN311 Homework #1
Due Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 at the beginning of class
Some review of series
Show your work on all problems
Read Boas chapter 1 sections 1-9, this should be a review
1. Boas problem 1.1.2 (chapter 1, section 1, problem 2) The geometric series is one we
use quite a bit to get to other results. It just comes up a lot in Physics. Working with
it should be as comfortable as doing addition, so we really want to pay attention to
this one.
2. Boas 1.1.7
3. Boas 1.2.4
4. Boas 1.6.9
5. Boas 1.6.14 I want you to do this one in two ways. Use the integral test as the book
is suggesting (for this one you might want to get some practice with Mathematica)
and also use a special comparison test.
6. Boas 1.6.29
7. Boas 1.7.4
8. Boas 1.7.6
9. Boas 1.9.15
10. Boas 1.9.19
11. Boas 1.9.21