Mathematics 312, Fall, 2000

Course procedures and announcements: (in reverse chronological order)

• Final exam answer key (DVI) (PDF)
• To get your grade directly, you must do ONE of the following:
  • Provide a stamped, addressed envelope or postcard with your test.
  • Put an e-mail address on your test.
  • Send an e-mail request from (or directed to) an e-mail address that is clearly yours.
  NO PHONE CALLS OR PERSONAL VISITS, PLEASE.
• Homework solutions #11 (the last!) are at Notes-N-Quotes.
• Final office hour: Monday, Dec. 11, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
• Homework solutions #10 are at Notes-N-Quotes.
• Final review session: Thursday, Dec. 7, 7:00 p.m.
• Homework solutions #9 are at Notes-N-Quotes. (This set includes the problems missing from #8.)
• Homework 11, due Monday, Dec. 4:
  WARNING: HABERMAN USES theta TO MEAN phi AND phi TO MEAN theta!
  Haberman 7.10.1(b), 7.10.2(b), 7.10.3(c), 7.10.9(a), 7.10.10(a), 7.10.12;
  Test booklet 94F1 (see 98F1 for examples with answers)
• Test C answer key (DVI) (PDF) (corrected Dec. 2004) (There was an error in the first problem statement on the answer key only.)
• Partial solutions for assignment #8 are at Notes-N-Quotes (namely, 2.5.3, 7.7.1, 7.8.7).
• Homework solutions #7 are at Notes-N-Quotes.
• Homework 10, due Monday, Nov. 27:
  Haberman 2.5.4, 5.9.3, 7.8.10
• Non-Fourier eigenvalue/eigenfunction demonstrations
  • eigenvalues of a Robin Sturm-Liouville problem (input) (output)
  • Bessel functions and Fourier-Bessel series (input) (output)
• Homework 9, due Friday, Nov. 17:
  Haberman 7.8.2, 7.9.1(c), 7.9.3(a), 7.5.1, 7.5.2
• Homework solutions #6 are at Notes-N-Quotes.
• Math Club (MAA and Pi Mu Epsilon) meeting, Monday, Nov. 6, 7:00 p.m., Blocker 627:
  TIG Insurance (actuarial jobs), planning for high school math contest (Nov. 18), free pizza.
• Homework 8, due Friday, Nov. 10:
  Haberman 2.5.3, 2.5.8(c), 7.7.1, 7.7.3, 7.7.8, 7.8.7, 7.8.8
• Homework solutions #5 are at Notes-N-Quotes.
• Test B answer key (DVI) (PDF)
• Homework 7, due Friday, Nov. 3:
  Haberman 5.3.3, 5.3.9, 5.4.1, 5.4.6, 5.5.1(c), 5.5.2, 5.5.8, 5.8.5, 5.8.8(c,d), 2.5.6(a)
• Homework solutions #4 are at Notes-N-Quotes.
• Field trip to OTRC wave basin Friday, Oct. 27, 3:15. There will be no homework assignment that week.
• I will miss the office hour Monday morning (Oct. 16). I expect to be in my office Tuesday afternoon most of the time from 2:00 to 4:00.
• If you have the booklet of old tests, please bring it to class this Friday, Oct. 13, so we can start reviewing examples for the next test.
• Solutions to Homeworks 2 and 3 are at Notes-N-Quotes.
• Click here for Homework 5, due Friday, Oct. 13, and Homework 6, due Friday, Oct. 20.
• Homework 4, due Friday, Oct. 6:
  Haberman 7.3.1(d), 7.3.4(b), 7.4.1(b,c), 10.2.2, 10.3.3, 10.3.5, 10.3.6, 10.3.13, 10.4.8
• Office hour conflicts
  • Thursday, Sept. 27: Office hour starts 3:30 at earliest. (I will stay till 5:00.)
  • Monday, Oct. 2: No morning office hour. I will probably be in my office during the hour before class (2:00-2:50).
  • Thursday, Oct. 5: No office hour, because of Academic Convocation.
• Test A answer key (DVI) (PDF)
• Solutions to Homework 1 are available at Notes-N-Quotes.
• Homework 3, due Friday, Sept. 29:
  Haberman 2.2.3, 2.5.1(a,d), 2.5.2 [Hint: First read in Linearity Exercises 7.5.6, 5.3.5, 5.3.4(b).]
  and also do Part (b) of this exercise (from an old preliminary version of Linearity). [Hint: As in (a), you may assume that you know at least one solution of the inhomogeneous PDE (without regard to boundary conditions).]
  Advance warning: The Oct. 6 assignment will include Haberman 7.3.1(d), 7.3.4(b), 7.4.1(b,c), in addition to some problems on Fourier transforms.
• Announcement for Post-Baccalaureate Program for Secondary Teacher Certification:
  Information session Tuesday, Sept. 26, 3:00 p.m., Rudder 402 (or call 845-8382 for information).
• Homework 2, due Friday, Sept. 22:
  Haberman 2.4.2, 3.2.2(b,f), 3.3.1, 3.3.3(c), 2.4.1(a,b), 3.3.14, 3.3.16
• Fourier series demonstrations
  • triangle wave (input) (output)
  • square wave (input) (output)
  • square wave means (input) (output)
  • triangle wave means (input) (output)
• Putnam Contest announcement
• Homework 1, due Friday, Sept. 15:
  Haberman 12.4.4, 12.3.6, 2.3.1(b), 2.3.2(d), 2.3.3(a,c), 2.3.6
• Wave equation demonstrations
  1. Introducing d'Alembert's solution: MathLily or PDF
  2. Wave reflection: MathLily or PDF
  (MathLily files are both valid Mathematica files and valid TeX files.)
  The technical remarks about Mathematica interfaces in these two documents are slightly out of date.
• Course handout (front side): DVI or PDF
• Course schedule (back side of handout): DVI or PDF
• Evans Harrell and James Herod, Linear Methods of Applied Mathematics
  Rough correlation between the Harrell-Herod syllabus and ours:
  • Block 1: HH Chapters 7, 6, 8, 3, 4, 5, 1
  • Block 2: Chapters 9, [nonexistent chapter on Fourier transforms], 20, 13 (beginning only), fragments of (15, 16, 19)
  • Block 3: Chapters 2, [nonexistent chapter on Sturm-Liouville theory, 17 (fragments), 10
  • Block 4: Chapters 11, 18

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