Math 81 Partial Differential Equations Schedule

Math 81 Partial Differential Equations, taught by Jim Wiseman

Date Topic
Tues 1/20 1.1/1.2 Intro, simple PDEs
Thurs 1/22 1.2/1.3 Important 2nd-order PDEs
Tues 1/27 1.3/1.4 Initial and boundary conditions
Thurs 1/29 1.5/1.6 Well-posedness, classification of 2nd-order PDEs
Tues 2/3 2.1 Wave equation
Thurs 2/5 2.2 More wave equation
Tues 2/10 2.3 Diffusion equation
Thurs 2/12 2.4/2.5 More diffusion equation
Tues 2/17 4.1 Dirichlet condition
Thurs 2/19 4.2/4.3 Neumann and Robin conditions
Tues 2/24 FIRST MIDTERM (IN CLASS)
Thurs 2/26 5 Fourier analysis
Tues 3/2 5 Fourier analysis
Thurs 3/4 5 Fourier analysis
Tues 3/9 SPRING BREAK
Thurs 3/11
Tues 3/16 5 Fourier analysis
Thurs 3/18 5 Fourier analysis
Tues 3/23 5 Fourier analysis
Thurs 3/25 NO CLASS MEETING
Tues 3/30 6.1 Laplace equation
Thurs 4/1 6.2/6.3 More Laplace, Poisson's formula
Tues 4/6 10.1 Fourier analysis in more dimensions
Thurs 4/8 10.2 Drums
Tues 4/13 SECOND MIDTERM (TAKE-HOME)
Thurs 4/15 PDEs and music
Tues 4/20 More PDEs and music
Thurs 4/22 12.1 Distributions
Tues 4/27 12.3 Fourier transforms
Thurs 4/29 14.3 Calculus of variations
  TAKE-HOME FINAL

 



Jim Wiseman
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Swarthmore College