MAT 418/518 Schedule

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Date   Day Chap Topic
Aug 22 R 1 Intro - BVPs and PDEs, Heat Equation
  27 T 1 Separation of Variables - Heat Equation
  29 R 1 Wave Equation - d'Alembert's Solution
Sep   2 M   Labor Day
    3 T 1 Semi-infinite/Finite String
    5 R 1 Classification of Second Order PDEs
  10 T 1 Nonhomogeneous Heat Equation, BCs
  12 R 1 Duhamel's Principle
  17 T 1 Laplace's Equation in 2D
  19 R 2 Fourier Series
  24 T 2 Examples
  26 R 2 Fourier Sine/Cosine Series
Oct   1 T 2 Solutions of Heat and Wave Eqns/Numerical Solutions
    3 R 3 Numerical Solution of PDEs - Finite Differences/Stability
    8 3 Stability Analysis/MATLAB
  10 R   Fall Vacation
  11 F   Fall Vacation
  15 T   Midterm
  17 Sturm-Liouville BVPs
  22 Properties of SL BVPs
  24 4 Eigenfunction Expansions
  29 5 Function Spaces
  31 5 Classical Orthogonal Polynomials
    5 5 Legendre Polynomials/Bessel Functions
Nov   7 2D Wave Eq: Rectangular Membrane
12 6 Circular Symmetry/Poisson Integral Formula
  14 6 3D Laplace Equation/Spherical Symmetry
  19 6 Spherical Harmonics
  21 1D - Quasilinear PDEs
  26 Conservation Laws and Shocks
  27 W   Thanksgiving
  28 R   Thanksgiving
  29 F   Thanksgiving
    3 T 7 Nonlinear PDEs and Beyond
Dec   12 R   Final Exam - 8:00 AM

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