MA 501
Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists I
FA11 SAS 2106 9:10-10:00 MWF
Lubkin

Dates

Topics

Schedule will be revised often during the semester; if it's in gray, it's tentative

Read this before class

Homework

 

* with plots.
** with animations. Either (a) sketch on your printout what you saw, since the animations won't print, or (b) plot multiple times on the same axes, or (c) plot multiple times on a sequence of axes. Regardless of what you turn in on paper, be sure you are able to watch the animation, so you can see the motion.

8/17, 19

course policies
course overview

review of ordinary differential equations

Appendix A.1-2

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8/22-26

review: ODE

review: Euler's formula

review: roots of a complex number

orthogonality of vectors and functions

introduction to Maple

6.1

HW1

A.2/ 4, 10, 12, 20, 24, 26, 30, 40

and make Maple graphs of 4 of the solutions (your choice). You will need to choose values for the constants in order to plot.

much easier than a typical HW set

due Wed 8/31

8/29-9/2

Tues is last day to add

periodic functions

Fourier series

Gibbs phenomenon

odd and even functions

periodic extensions
Fourier sin and cos series

 

2.1-2.4

HW2

6.1/2 (use the definitions), 21

2.1/2* (some will have to be sketched by hand!), 8

Spend 30 minutes exploring the Falstad Fourier series applet.

2.2/1-4* (plot by hand!), 6*, 7*, 8*, 10*, 11* (For 6-11, do both parts (a) and (b), but you only need to plot N=1, 2, 4, 8, 16. You can also do N = 32 if you want. For each problem, plot f and the partial sums all on the same axes.) Hint: You will have to think about problems10-11, because careless use of Maple will mislead you!

2.3/6* (pick parameter values for plotting), 20ab

due Fri 9/9

9/7, 9

no classes Monday

Fourier series applet

wave equation

separation of variables

eigenvalues, eigenfunctions IC, BC

3.1-3.3

 

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9/12-16

superposition
Maple: animating solutions

1D wave applet

heat equation

3.5

3.6

HW3

3.1/1-6, 7abe

3.3/2**, 4**, 6**, 11, 12a-d

3.5/2**, 4**, 9*, 12**

due Mon 9/26

9/19-23

no class

no office hours

catch up on reading the chapters!

 

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9/26-30

various BC in the heat equation

wave and heat eq in 2D

Laplace equation

3.7, 3.8

6.2

HW4

3.6/2**, 4**, 16

3.8/2*, 4*, 8

3.10/2*

due Wed 10/5

10/3, 5

Monday class canceled (illness)

wave and heat eq in 2D

inner products in 2D

 

3.5, 3.6, 3.7

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10/10-14

Friday last day to drop

review Monday

midterm Wednesday

go over exam

Robin BC

 

3.6

HW5

3.6/5, 6**

3.7/2**, 12**

6.2/12, 14, 16, 18, 23*, 26*

due Wed 10/19

10/17-21

inner product with a weight

Sturm-Liouville theory

Laplace equation on a disk

Euler equations (ODE)

6.1, 6.2

A.3, 4.1, 4.4

 

HW6

A.3/ 32

6.1/ 6

4.4/ 2*, 4*, 8*, 12*, 14*, 21, 22*

Make plots in both height and contour format. Use plot3d and contourplot, and make sure your coordinates plot correctly!

due Wed 10/26

10/24-28

wave equation on a disk, radially symmetric

Bessel functions

pebble in a pond

wave equation on a disk, not symmetric

4.2, 4.7, 4.8

4.3, 6.3

 

HW7

4.7/ 18*, 20* (pick values for the constants for your plots)

4.8/ 26*, 30*

4.2/ 3**, 4**, 6**

due Wed 11/2

10/31-11/4

Laplace transforms

ODE using Laplace transforms

convolution

8.1, 8.2,

8.3, Appx. B4

Project 1

3.8/11**

4.2/10, 11**

6.3/1**

work in teams of 2 or 3 with all names on the same paper

due Fri 11/11

11/7-11

erf and erfc

step and delta functions

PDE using Laplace transforms

cartoon physics: the falling infinite string

complex Fourier series

Fourier integral + transform

properties of FT

7.1, 7.2

2.6

7.8

 

HW 8

8.1/ 8, 16, 24, 26, 30, 40

8.2/ 24, 30, 40

Method: First get used to using the tables, then you can check your answers in Maple.

8.3/ 2**, 10**, 15, 16**

due Friday 11/18

11/14-18

PDE using the Fourier transform

D'Alembert's solution

midterm Friday

3.4

7.3, 7.4, 7.8

 

HW 9

7.2/ 2*, 4*, 38, 50, 53, 54

7.3/ 2**, 4**, 8 (this is called the advection equation), 17**, 22**

7.4/ 2**, 26**

7.8/ 52

due 12/2

11/21

Gaussian kernel of diffusion equation

multiple use of transforms

 

Project 2 due after end of classes

11/28-12/2

multiple use of transforms

systems of PDE

finite difference methods

review

9.1

 

Mon Dec 12, 8-11 am

final exam