Math 421 Applied Analysis

Fall 2004, Ed Bueler

Ed Bueler: felb@uaf.edu, x7693
Office: Chapman 301C (Hours)

Class times and rooms:
     MWF 9:15-10:15 GRUE 410
     Tu 9:45-10:45 BROOKS 302

Texts
:
  • Schey, Div, Grad, Curl and All That (Norton 3rd Ed., $32)
  • Farlow, Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers (Dover, $16)
Link to Syllabus Here

Parts of course
  • Div, Grad, Curl, Gradient, and Laplacian
  • Boundary value problems for partial differential equations, separation of variables, and Fourier series
ON RESERVE IN RASMUSSEN (24 hour checkout):
  • Brown and Churchill, Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems
LINKS:

 Schedule:  (my planning document, version 12/7/04)

Day

Text Chapter
Topic
Assigned or Due
F 9/3
I
introduction, syllabus, electric fields (as example)
Assignment #1
M 9/6
no class
(Labor Day)

T 9/7
I vector fields, overview of calc III
W 9/8
II surfaces, normal vectors

F 9/10
II surface integrals
M 9/13
II surface integrals, cont. Assignment #2
T 9/14
II flux, Gauss' law
A#1 DUE (CHANGE)
W 9/15
II divergence
F 9/17
II divergence in other coordinates

M 9/20
II divergence theorem A#2 DUE
T 9/21
II
cont.
Assignment #3
W 9/22
III
line integrals

F 9/24
III
path independence and curl

M 9/27
III
curl in other coords A#3 DUE
T 9/28
III
Ampere's law, Stoke's theorem
W 9/29
III
Stoke's thm cont.
Assignment #4
F 10/1
III
cont

M 10/4
III problems/examples/issues


T 10/5
III/IV problems cont.
the gradient,
Assignment #5
W 10/6
IV
gradients and potentials A#4 DUE
F 10/8
IV
Laplace's equation
M 10/11
IV
Laplace cont., finding potentials
T 10/12
IV
directional derivatives, gradients in coordinates
A#5 DUE
W 10/13
Review
Review

F 10/15
Lesson 1
types of PDEs

M 10/18
Exam
DivGradCurl Exam
T 10/19
Lessons 1,2
a easy PDE; Newton's law of cooling
Assignment #6
W 10/20
Lesson 2
heat equation

F 10/22
Lesson 3
cont

M 10/25
Lesson 4
cont
A#6 DUE
T 10/26
L 5
separation of variables and Fourier sine series
Assignment #7
W 10/27
review
review of ODEs
F 10/29
L 5 cont
sep of vars cont

M 11/1
L 6
transform nonhomogeneous BCs

T 11/2
interlude
vibrating string/wave equation
A#7 DUE
W 11/3
L 7
harder eigenfunction problems
Assignment #8
F 11/5
L 7 cont
cont; Sturm-Liouville problems

M 11/8
L 8
more transformations

T 11/9
L 9
eigenfunction expansions
A#8 DUE
Assignment #9
W 11/10
review
review for midterm

F 11/12
review,
HANDOUT
review cont.
convergence of Fourier series
A#9 DUE
SOLNS TO A#8
SOLNS TO A#9
M 11/15
Exam
Midterm Exam (on PDEs)
Covers:  Lessons 1-9 of Farlow plus simple vibrating strings problems (see interlude above).

T 11/16
HANDOUT one-sided derivatives; best approximation
Assignment #10
W 11/17
HANDOUT
best approx. cont., proof of Dirichlet's theorem (theorem on p. 90)

F 11/19 HANDOUT
proof cont.,  applications

M 11/22
HANDOUT
cont.

T 11/23
L 11
Fourier series vs. transforms; spectrum
A#10 DUE
W 11/24
L 11
F. transforms

F 11/26
no class
(Thanksgiving break)

M 11/29
L 11, L 12
F. transforms, cont.

T 11/30
L 12
solution to heat equation by F. transforms and convolution
Assignment #11
W 12/1
L 16, 17
wave eqn; D'Alembert's solution

F 12/3
L 17
D'Alembert's solution
M 12/6
L 18
cont
Assignment #12
A#11 DUE
T 12/7
L 30
vibrating drum head
FINAL EXAM
W 12/8
L 35
heat in the earth

F 12/10


A#12 DUE
M 12/13



T 12/14
no class
(finals week)

Th 12/16
FINAL
FINAL DUE  NOON!!!

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