Partial Differential Equations  

MATH 540 - Spring 2018

MWF,  11:30 am - 12:20 pm,  TLC 139

Instructor:

Lyudmyla Barannyk
317 Brink Hall
tel:  (208) 885-6719
fax: (208) 885-5843
barannyk@uidaho.edu
office hours:
    MWF 12:30-1:30 pm, or by appointment


There is a class discussion e-mail list: math-540-01-sp18@uidaho.edu. You can make an alias for the e-mail of your section. Each e-mail lists contains e-mails of all students enrolled in the section and my e-mail.  You can use the e-mail list to ask me questions that might be of interest to others in the class. You can also email me at barannyk@uidaho.edu with other questions.

    Handouts and  Lecture Notes

Course Description

The course is devoted to the solution of boundary value and initial value problems for the classical PDEs of mathematical physics by analytical methods. The main emphasis is on solution via Green's functions but other methods such as Laplace and Fourier transforms are also included.

Textbook

Partial Differential Equations: Analytical Solution  Techniques by Jirair Kevorkian,  2nd Edition, Springer.

Syllabus

Download syllabus:  .pdf

Homework


Homework Sets Due Date
hw1
 February,   9












Handouts

Impulses and Delta functions
Green's functions for ODEs


Lecture Notes

Lecture 1: 1/10/2018            Lecture 11: 2/05/2018
Lecture 2: 1/12/2018            Lecture 12: 2/07/2018
Lecture 3: 1/17/2018
Lecture 4: 1/19/2018
Lecture 5: 1/22/2018
Lecture 6: 1/24/2018
Lecture 7: 1/26/2018
Lecture 8: 1/29/2018
Lecture 9: 1/31/2018
Lecture 10: 2/02/2018


Exams

Midterm Exam:


Final Exam :

Grading

Midterm Exam: 20%
Final Exam: 30%
Homework: 50%

Midsemester Questionnaire