At Imperial College many departments supply lecture notes to the students for free on a CD, with past exam papers and answers. Now the physics department has argued against the outright release of the answers for the exams, with good reason I might add. However I see no reason why the lecture notes have not been made available, in a similar fashion to the Chemistry Department.
Anyway enough of my winging, here I supply you with the lectures notes for the first and second year. If the ones you need are not available...well.....tough. I'm doing this mainly for my own organisation (I am useless at looking after sheets of paper :) ) and have decided to release these notes so that you lot can hopefully save yourselves a mass photocopying session at the end of each term :)
These notes are very likely to contain errors, most of the errors are typesetting/visual problems which I don't care about, however any problems, whatever they are, I ask if you can e-mail me what they are (I know about the equation numbers being screwed up, however they are not too important, in the LaTeX script I write the notes in I have left information on what the numbers actually are ment to be, however I don't care much to sort this out in the near future). This would allow me to fix the typos and genuine errors in the lectures notes but also I can then keep a list of minor problems which won't effect revision, only presentability.
I have not only supplied you with lectures notes from Imperial College but also lecture notes that are already publically at other good universities. The American Universities go a good job of lecture note publishing......a shame UK ones don't.....
I have supplied the lecture notes in two different formats. PDF is the best format as it maintains the layout, eye-candy and printability factor, however the HTML version has been created so that you can browse the notes to do those damn problem sheets without having to drag all your lecture notes to college, etc. If you want to be able to read PDF files at home but do not have a copy of Acrobat Reader then download it from here. If you prefer the HTML ones (can be read in any web browser) then download the zip file, uncompress it and point you browser to the index.html file.
Enough of my bantering.....all I ask is for you to report errors, as I publish my notes so that hopefully the errors in them can be corrected, if I don't receive what I consider a good list of complaints about the uselessness factor of my notes then I will simply remove them from the public domain and only make them available to whom I want on a person to person basis. Alternatively you could just buy me lots of drink instead ;)
Jim diGriz (last updated 11th March 2001)