MATH 480

MATH 480:
Partial Differential Equations
Fall 2012

Lecture schedule: T-Th 9:30-10:45am in LO 1127

Instructor: Vladislav Panferov, phone (818)677-2326, email:

Office hours: SN 129, MTWTh 11:00-12:00noon, or by appointment (email)

09/04/12: The course webpage is online. Homework assignments 1 and 2 are announced (see below).
10/11/12: Review for the Midterm 1 (on Thursday, Oct 18) is announced, see below.

Wolfram Alpha: A web-based front end for the Mathematica symbolic computation system -- works with Mathematica examples discussed in the textbook. Alpha is a great tool to check correctness of your computations. To get started on Fourier series in Wolfram Alpha type 'fourier series'.
The Wolfram Mathworld article on Fourier series.

Week 1: 8/27, 8/30 Week 2: 9/4, 9/6-9/11 Week 3: 9/13 Week 4: 9/18-9/20 Week 5: 9/27 Week 8: 10/16 Week 9: 10/23, 10/25 Week 10: 10/30 Week 14: 11/29-12/6

Assignment	Quiz date	Results
Assignment 1: (PDF file) Quiz solutions	Sept 11	Your grades
Assignment 2: (PDF file) Quiz solutions	Sept 18
Assignment 3:(PDF file) Quiz solutions	Oct 2
Assignment 4: 1.1: 1, 4, 5, 7, 14, 16aef, 17bef, 18-20; 1.2: 1, 2, 4-8, 13 (in part (b) take the real part), 16-18. Quiz solutions	Oct 9
Assignment 5: 1.1: 30, 31 (see Example 1.1.5); 1.3: 4-6, 10-13; (there's a hint for problem 4) 1.4: 1-9, (21-25)* (*-optional)	Oct 18 (midterm)
Assignment 6: 1.5: 1-3, 6, 7; 1.6: 2, 3, 4, 7 + the following additional problems: (PDF file)	Oct 25
Assignment 7: 2.1: 10, 11, 15, 16; 2.2: 6-9, 14, 15; 2.3: 1, 4, 6, 10; + the following additional problems: (PDF file)	Nov 6
Assignment 8: 2.4: 1-5, 13; 2.5: 5, 9, 11, 13-16; + the following additional problems: (PDF file); Answers: (PDF file).	Dec 4 (midterm)

last modified on 9 Dec 2012