Scientific lectures
MS. Coulson 27
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Description
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Title
Scientific lectures
Shelfmark
MS. Coulson 27
Summary
Folders B.7.1-B.7.4: Lectures at Leeds University, 1936.
These represent Coulson's first formal university lectures, delivered at Leeds in 1936 when, at the request of W.P. Milne, he deputised for Professor S. Brodetsky. It was a lecture by Brodetsky, attended while he was still a schoolboy at Clifton College, that inspired Coulson to become a mathematician. All items are MS. drafts.
Folder B.7.1: 'Advanced dynamics'.
Folder B.7.2: 'Projectiles'.
Folder B.7.3: 'Statics'.
Folder B.7.4: 'Ramsay's hydro solutions'.
Folders B.7.5-B.7.14: Lectures delivered at Dundee University, 1939-1945, n.d. (All items are MS. drafts.)
Folder B.7.5: 'Electricity. Potential theory'.
Folder B.7.6: 'Electricity (senior honours)'.
Folder B.7.7: 'Gravitation'.
Folder B.7.8: 'Partial differentiation'.
Folder B.7.9: 'Differential equations'.
Folder B.7.10: 'Three dimensional solutions'.
Folder B.7.11: 'General course of mathematical physics', 1939-1940.
Folder B.7.12: Lectures to Maths general class, 1943-1944.
Folder B.7.13: Lectures to Maths general class, 1944-1945.
Folder B.7.14: Junior honours dynamics lectures, c.1944.
Date
1936,1945, n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
14 folders
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Collection contents
Archive of Charles Alfred Coulson (1910-1974)
Section B: Scientific working papers, lectures, publications
Scientific lectures
