| Text: Applied Partial Differential Equations ... (4th Edition), by R. Haberman |
Basic Course Materials
- Information relating to the management of the course can be found here.
Supplemental Course Materials
- Lecture notes
- James Herod has kindly made available some lecture notes which are accessible as Maple worksheets.
- A tutotial on how to find the series solution to Legendre's equation can be found here.
- Function plots
- Java applets
- John Polking of Rice University has developed Java applets to numerically solve ODEs.
- Java applets to compute Fourier series can be found here.
- Bob Terrell has developed Java applets to solve PDEs. Some relevant ones are:
- Paul Falstad has written several Math and Physics Applets. Some relevant ones are:
- Computation
- A ZIP file which contains MATLAB programs to solve the heat equation and the wave equation on the line can be found here. After unpacking the ZIP file, make sure that you store all four files in the same directory.
- Richard Allen of the University of New Mexico has some online MATLAB help and code. In particular, he has a link to a MATLAB tutorial developed by Monika Nitsche.
Exam Dates
| Date |
10/12
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11/20
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12/10 (0900-1200) |
| Exam | Midterm #1 (solution) | Midterm #2 (solution) |
Final
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Homework Problems
| Due Date | Problems |
| 09/12 (solution) |
1.4.1eg,1.4.3,1.4.6,1.4.7a,1.4.7c
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| 09/19 (solution) | 2.2.4 2.3.2d,2.3.2e,2.3.2g,2.3.3a,2.3.3b,2.3.8 2.4.1a,2.4.1b |
| 09/26 (solution) | 2.5.1a,2.5.1f,2.5.3 |
| 10/03 (solution) | 2.5.5ab,2.5.5d,2.5.8a,2.5.9a |
| 10/10 (solution) | assignment |
| 10/19 (solution) | assignment |
| 10/26 (solution) | assignment |
| 11/07 (solution) | assignment |
| 11/14 (solution) | 7.3.1ac,7.3.1b,7.3.2b,7.3.4a,7.3.7ac |
| 11/26 (solution) | 7.4.1 7.7.2ab,7.7.3,7.7.5,7.7.7,7.7.9a,7.7.9c |
| 12/07 (solution) | 7.8.2d,7.8.3d 7.9.1abc,7.9.2a,7.9.2b,7.9.4b 7.10.1a,7.10.2b,7.10.2d,7.10.8 |
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| Last updated 12/06/07 |