Engineering Mathematics
Spring 2019
Text Links and Notes
The textbook is
Richard Haberman's "Applied Partial Differential
Equations with Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems",
and please
note that it is the 5th edition- This is the same
text that has been used previously, but it is a new edition this semester.
The following are optional, but can be helpful:
Beginning Material and Homework
Links and Homework
- Week 1
- Week 2 (Short week)
- Week 3: This week- 2.3 (Separation of Variables)
- 2.3: 1, 2(a, e), 3(b,c), 4. Turn in 2(e) and 3(c).
- Week 4: Solving the heat equation on more "exotic" boundaries, get more experience
with the trig integrals.
- Week 5: Section 2.5, Review and Exam 1
- Section 2.5 HW: 1(a,f), 3, 5(a), 7(a). Exercises 2 and 10 are also good to look at, although 2 is a little long.
- Week 6 (Monday no classes)
- Week 7
- Homework for 3.4-3.5 (Monday)
- On Wednesday, we'll finish 3.4-3.6. Homework sheet was passed out on Monday.
- Friday we finished 3.5. Read over 3.6 (HW handed out on Monday)
- Week 8
- Monday, we're starting Chapter 4:
- Friday: 4.4, continued. For HW, see the Maple Lab.
- Week 9 (After break, start Chapter 5)
Week 10 (Apr 1-5)
- Mon: 5.4-5.5
- Wed: 5.5-5.6
- Fri: 5.6-5.7
Week 11 (Apr 8-12)
- Mon: Review for Exam
- Wed: Exam 2
- Fri: 5.7-5.8
Week 12 (Apr 15-19)
- Mon: Finish Chapter 5, start Chapter 7.
- Maple file for a vibrating rectangle.
- Directly
from Maple (with animated GIFs)
- Reminder: HW Due on Wed: 5.6, #1(c) and 5.8, #7.
- Wed: 7.3: HW: 7.3, #1(b), 2, 3 (in class), 5, 7(a). Turn in 1(b).
- Fri: 7.4. HW: 7.4: 1, 2. (Turn in 2, assume we have zero boundary conditions).
We also reviewed Green's Theorem, Stokes' Theorem, and the Divergence Theorem.
Week 13 (Apr 22-26)
Week 14 (Apr 29-May 3)
- Monday: 7.7-7.9. HW: 7.7: 1, 3, 7, 9(a)*, 12. For Wednesday,
turn in HW from 7.6 and 7.7.
- Wed: Finish 7.8-7.9, Ch 8.
- Friday: Chapter 12 (First Order PDEs)
Materials for Exams
- Exam 1:
- Exam 2:
- Final Exam:
