ENGS/PHYS 100:  Schedule



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ENGS/PHYS 100. Methods in Applied Mathematics I

 

 

Class Time

MWF 11:15 am - 12:20 pm, Tue 12-12:50 pm (X-hour)

Classroom

MacLean 132 (Engineering Sciences Center)

Instructor

William Lotko

Grade Basis

Weekly homework (50%); Midterm Exam (25%); Final Exam (25%)

 

 

Week 1

Function of a Complex Variable

Wednesday

Sep 24

Algebra, complex plane, Argand diagram, de Moivre’s theorem, trigonometric series

3

 

 

Friday

Sep 26

Analytic functions, Cauchy-Riemann conditions, Riemann sheets, branch cuts

24.1 - 24.6

 

 

 

 

Week 2

Function of a Complex Variable

Monday

Sep 29

Contour integrals, Cauchy’s Theorem and integral formula, Taylor expansion

24.8 - 24.11

 

 

Tuesday

April 1

X-Hr 12-12:50p

Analytic continuation, Laurent series, poles, calculus of residues

24.12

 

 

Wednesday

Oct 1

Contour integration: Examples

24.13

 

 

Friday

Oct 3

Contour integration with branch cuts

24.13

 

 

Week 3

Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces

Monday

Oct 6

Linear vector spaces, algebra, linear independence, basis set, transpose, inner product

8.1

 

 

Wednesday

Oct 8

Matrix operations, linear operators, classes of operators, examples

 

8.2-8.12

 

 

Friday

Oct 10

Eigenvectors/values, inequalities, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization

 

8.13

 

 

Week 4

Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces

Monday

Oct 13

Unitary operators, eigenvalues/vectors, diagonalization, characteristic equation

8.13 - 8.14

 

 

Wednesday

Oct 15

Change of basis, orthogonal transformation, eigenproblems

8.15 - 8.17

 

 

Friday

Oct 17

Systems of linear differential equations

8.18, 9.1

 

 

 

 

Week 5

Linear Differential Equations

Monday

Oct 20

Second order DEs, ordinary and singular points, series solution

16.1

 

 

Wednesday

Oct 22

Series solution and Method of Frobenius

16.2

 

 

Friday

Oct 24

Series expansion around a singular point, Bessel’s equation and functions

16.3

 

 

 

 

Week 6

Linear Differential Equations

Monday

Oct 27

Missing solutions, logarithmic solution

16.4

 

 

Wednesday

Oct 29

Legendre's equation and polynomial solutions

16.6

 

 

Friday

Oct 31

Nonhomogenous problem, families of ODES

Notes

 

 

 

 

Week 7

Infinite Dimensional Vector Space

Monday

Nov 3

Hilbert space, self-adjoint operator, complete and orthonormal sets

17.1 - 17.2

 

 

Tuesday

Nov 4

X-Hr 12-12:50p

Eigenfunction expansions

17.3

 

 

Wednesday

Nov 5

No class

 

Friday

Nov 7

Boundary value problems, Sturm-Liouville problem

17.4

 

 

 

 

Week 8

Infinite Dimensional Vector Spaces

Monday

Nov 10

Green's functions

17.5 - 17.6

 

 

Wednesday

Nov 12

Gamma function

18, Notes

 

 

Friday

Nov 14

Hypergeometric and special functions

18, Notes

 

 

 

 

Week 9

Integral Transforms

Monday

Nov 17

Orthogonal polynomials

18, Notes

 

 

Wednesday

Nov 19

Fourier transform, convolution, Parseval relation, uncertainty principle

13.1

 

 

Friday

Nov 21

Laplace transform, an application leading to Abel’s integral equation

13.2

 

 

 

 

Week 10

Integral Transforms

Monday

Nov 24

General approach to the derivation of transform pairs

Notes

 

 

Monday

Dec 1

Other transform pairs

Notes

 

 

Wednesday

Dec 3