Math 131P: Partial differential equations I

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Course description and tentative syllabus

This course is a slightly more applied version of 131M, suitable for non-math majors. While this course will include a little theory (i.e. proofs), this will not be the main emphasis or focus. A few technical (theoretical) points covered in 131M will be replaced with some slightly more applied material. A tentative syllabus can be found here.

Course Info

Mon 1:30-2:30, Wed 2:30-3:30 in 382-F. For issues which are NOT related to the current homework, Fri 2:00-2:50 in 382-F. Additionally your CA Dominic Dotterrer will have office hours on Tue 10:45--12:15, Tue 1:00--2:15, Wed 11:15--12:15 in 380-J.

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Tuesday 5th week (Oct 21), in class

Monday Dec 8th, 12:15--3:15 in 380-380X.

Grading and other policies

Grading Your final grade will be the average of your homework, midterm and final with the midterm counting as 30%, final 50% and your homework 20%.

Homework Homework will be assigned every week on Thursday, and due in class on the following Thursday at the beginning of class. Late homework will NEVER be accepted. If you have an exceptionally good reason for not turning in the homework on time, then I might be persuaded to not counting that homework towards your grade. But under no circumstances will I accept your homework late! (As an incentive: If you never make an excuse, and turn in all your homework on time, I will not count your lowest score towards your grade.

Working in groups on your homework is encouraged, but blindly copying will certainly guarantee miserable performance on all exams.

Homework Assignments

Page 1 (Assignments 1 -- 2)

Page 2 (Assignments 3 -- 4)

Page 3 (Assignments 5 -- 6)

Page 4 (Assignments 7 -- 8)

Page 5 (Assignment 9)

Handouts

Lecture plan / notes: As a curtsey to you, I am putting online a few cryptic notes I scribble when preparing class. These notes are mainly so that there is a clear cut record of what was done (for future versions of this course), and can possibly serve as a study guide when you prepare for exams. However, before downloading them, you must acknowledge the following:

At the whim of the instructor, these notes may or may not be updated, taken off-line or completely destroyed.
You will NEVER make any request for more detailed lecture notes, better handwriting or the likes.
These notes are provided as is, without any warranty (i.e. I might say something completely different in class, and not update the notes).
Any questions regarding the differences between the notes, and the lectures may be silently ignored, and may result in my taking the notes off-line.

If you agree to the above terms, you can download the notes here.

Solutions: Solutions (mainly written by Dominic) can be found here.

A short note on the error function: Since I did not cover the error function in class, and it's a useful thing to know (e.g. to solve homework), here's a short note on it. (Your text also has a similar section.)

Midterm: Your midterm with solutions.

Plots of the Poisson Kernel: Some MATLAB / Octave code to plot the Poisson kernel.

Final: Solutions to your (evil) final.

Homework / Midterm curves

Text book

W. Strauss Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction (Second Edition)

Feedback

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Last modified: Mon 15 Dec 2008 01:15:50 PM IST

Office Hours	Mon 1:30-2:30, Wed 2:30-3:30 in 382-F. For issues which are NOT related to the current homework, Fri 2:00-2:50 in 382-F. Additionally your CA Dominic Dotterrer will have office hours on Tue 10:45--12:15, Tue 1:00--2:15, Wed 11:15--12:15 in 380-J.
Email list	All registered students should be automatically subscribed to the students mailing list. If by error you are NOT subscribed to this list, then subscribe yourself to math131p-aut0809-guests. Any email announcement sent by me will also be sent to this list. Note: Any requests to me to either subscribe or un-subscribe you to these email lists will be (silently) ignored. You can subscribe yourself from the above link. You can unsubscribe yourself by following the link in the footer of every list email you get.
Midterm	Tuesday 5th week (Oct 21), in class
Final	Monday Dec 8th, 12:15--3:15 in 380-380X.