Multimedia applying in course of methods of mathematical physics

“Methods of mathematical physics” is a course which introduces the mathematics applied in physics. The experience from multimedia instruction in physics suggests that by appropriately selecting the content related to physics and the visualization that exhibits the physical picture of the mathematical formulae (including the use of movie to demonstrate time dependent processes)., the effectiveness of the instruction may be improved. In our course, we have adopted two methods of visualization: one is to plot directly the analytical solution, the other is to first solve the equations numerically and then plot the resulting numerical solutions. Our practice and experience are presented in this article.