MTH 418/518
SYLLABUS
Fall 2008
Instructor: Prof. C. O. Bloom
E-Mail: cobloom@acsu.buffalo.edu
Office: 230 Mathematics Building
Office Hours: Tues. 11:00 -11:50 AM,
Thurs. 11:00 -11:50 AM,
and by appointment
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Lectures: Tues., Thurs., Fri. 9:30 - 10:50 AM, 150 Math Building
Recitation: 418A - Tues., 8:00-8:50, 150 Math Building
(Recitations begin on 9/02/08)
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Text #1(Required):
Title: Elementary Applied Partial Differential Equations (4th Edition)
Author: Richard Haberman Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Topics: (To be covered)
Chapter 1- Heat Equation: 1.1-1.5
Chapter 2- Method of Separation of Variables: 2.1-2.5
Chapter 3- Fourier Series: 3.1-3.5
Chapter 4 -Vibrating Strings and Membranes: 4.1-4.5
Chapter 5-Sturm-Liouville Eigenvalue Problems: 5.1-5.8
Chapter 7-Partial Differential Equations with at Least Three Independent Variables: 7.1-7.10
Chapter 8-Non-homogeneous Problems: 8.1-8.6
Selected sections of the following (as time allows):
Chapter 9-Greens functions for Time-independent Problems: 9.1-9.3.6, 9.5-9.7
Chapter 11-Green's Functions for Time-dependent Problems: 11.1-11.3
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Grading:
1. Your test average with the first exam weighted 25%, the second exam
weighted 25%, the third exam weighted 25%, and the final exam
weighted 25% will be computed.
2. The lowest of the three semester exam grades will be dropped and
your test average will be computed with your two highest test scores
weighted as 30% each, and your final exam score weighted as 40%.
Your letter grade will be assigned based on the higher of 1. & 2.
+/- Grades will be assigned.
3. If your average on the first three tests is at least 80% you may elect
not to take
the final exam. Your grade will be computed entirely on the basis
your test average.
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Tests
Study Guide Test #1
Date
Thursday, 9/25/08
Time and Location
9:30-10:50 AM
150 Math
9:30-10:50 AM
150 Math
Study Guide Test #2
9:30-10:50 AM
150 Math
Study Guide Test #3
Study Guide
Final Exam 418/518
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-3Lecture Date
Reading
Homework
Week #1
8/25/08
8/29/08
Text #1:
Week #2
9/1/08
9/5/08
Text#1:
Week #3
9/8/08
9/12/08
Text #1:
Chap. 2: 2.4, 2.5.1,
2.5.2, 2.5.4
Week #4
9/15/08
9/19/08
Text #1:
Chap. 2: 2.5.1,
2.5.2, 2.5.4
Week #5
9/22/08
9/26/08
Text #1:
Chap. 3: 3.1, 3.2,
3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3,
3.3.4, 3.3.5
Preview of Test #1
Text #1:
Chap. 3: 3.4
Chap. 3:
Exercises 3.2: # 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.4
Exercises 3.3: #3.3.1-3.3.10, 3.3.18
Text#1:
Chap. 8: 8,1, 8.2
Chap. 8:
Exercises 8.2: #8.2.1-8.2.6
Text#1:
Chap. 8:
8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
Chap. 8:
Exercises 8.3: #8.3.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.58.3.7
Exercises 8.4: #8.4.1, 8.4.2, 8.4.4
Exercises 8.5: #8.5.1, 8.5.2, 8.5.4
Exercises 8.6: 8.6.1, 8.6.2, 8.6.58.6.7
Text#1: Chap. 4:
4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
Chap. 4:
Exercises 4.3: #4.3.1, 4.3.2
Exercises 4.4: #4.4.1-4.4.12
Exercises 4.5: #4.5.
Week #6
9/29/08
10/03/08
Week #7
10/06/08
10/10/08
Week #8
10/13/08
10/17/08
Week #9
10/20/08
10/24/08
Week #10
10/27/08
10/31/08
Chap.1: 1.1-1.4
Chap.1: 1.5,
Appendix to 1.5
Chap.1:
Exercises 1.2, pp. 10-11
Exercises 1.3: #1.3.2, p. 14
Exercises 1.4: #1.4.1, 1.4.7
Exercises 1.5: #1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.31.5.9, 1.5.11, 1.5.12
Chap. 5: 5.1-5.3,
5.4, 5.5
9/1/08
Chap. 2:
Exercises 2.3 : # 2.3.1-2.3.8
9/8/08
Chap. 2: 2.1, 2.2,
2.3
Preview of Test #2
Do By
Chap. 2:
Exercises 2.4 : # 2.4.1-2.4.3, 2.4.6,
2.4.7
Exercises 2.5 : # 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.32.5.7, 2.5.8, 2.5.9
Chap. 2:
Exercises 2.5 : # 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.32.5.7, 2.5.8, 2.5.9
Chap. 3: Exercises 3.4: #3.4.1-3.4.9,
3.4.10-3.4.13
Chap. 5:
Exercises 5.3: #5.3.1-5.3.6, 5.3.7,
5.3.9, 5.3.10
Exercises 5.4: #5.4.1-5.4.5
Exercises 5.5: #5.5.1-5.5.4, 5.5.7
9/15/08
9/22/08
Week #11
Text #1:
Chap.5: 5.6-5.8
Chap5:
Exercises 5.6: # 5.6.1, 5.6.2
Exercises 5.7: # 5.7.1-5.7.2
Exercises 5.8: # 5.8.2, 5.8.3, 5.8.55.8.8, 5.8.9
Text #1:
Chap.7: 7.1-7.3,
Appendix to 7.3
Chap.7: 7.4,7.5, 7.6
Chap. 7:
Exercises 7.3: # 7.3.1, 7.3.2-7.3.7
Exercises 7.4: # 7.4.1-7.4.3
Exercises 7.5: # 7.5.1-7.5.4, 7.5.6 7.5.8
Exercises 7.6: # 7.6.1-7.6.4
Text #1:
Chap. 7: 7.7, 7.9
Exercises 7.7: #7.7.1-7.7.4, 7.7.77.7.9
Exercises 7.9: #7.9.1-7.9.5
11/03/08
11/07/08
Week #12
11/10/08
11/14/08
Week #13
11/17/08
11/21/08
Week #14
Text #1:
Chap. 7: 7.7, 7.9
11/24/08
11/28/08
Week 15
Preview of Final
Exam
See Study Guide
for Final Exam
See Study Guide
for Final Exam
12/01/08
12/05/0808(Last
Day of Classes)
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Important Dates:
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GENERAL INFORMATION Students with Disabilities: If you have a diagnosed
disability (physical, learning or psychological) which will make it difficult for you to
carry out the course work as outlined, or requires accommodations such as recruiting
note takers, readers, or extra time on exams and/or assignments, please advise me
during the first two weeks of the course so that we may review possible arrangements
for reasonable accommodations.
Making up an Incomplete in mathematics: To make up an incomplete, you must...
1. Not re-register for the course — You are making up an incomplete in
your original course.
2. Appear in person at the Mathematics Building, Room 244, ask for
Rose Marciniak, and request that she initiate an incomplete petition
for you.
3. Sign the petition.
4. a) If your original instructor determined that the work was to be
completed with him/her, take the approved petition form to your
original instructor for his/her signature.
b) If your original instructor determined that the work was to be
completed by your repeating the course, take the approved petition
form to your new instructor for his/her signature.
5. Return the petition form to Rosemarie Marciniak in Room 244
Mathematics Building by the last day of drop/add (Friday, Sept. 5).
Repeating Course: If this course is being taken to repeat a course previously
taken at UB, it is important , for financial aid purposes, to be registered for 12
credit hours in addition to the course which is being repeated to be considered full
time.