Math 4163 (Intro. to Partial Differential Equations)

Spring 2013

Instructor:

John Albert

Office: PHSC 1004, Ext. 5-3782.

Office hours: Monday 2:30 - 3:30, Wednesday 2:30 - 3:30, Thursday 10:30 - 11:30

E-mail: jalbert@ou.edu

Information

Solutions to final exam.
Review sheet for the final exam.
Solutions to third exam.
Review sheet for the third exam.
Solutions to problems on Assignment 9.
Here is a link to a page containing animations of the vibrations of a circular membrane. On this page, the "(m,n) node" refers to the vibration corresponding to the eigenfunction J_m(z_{m,n} r) sin (m theta). You can find lots more interesting animations, including ones of the vibrations of a rectangular membrane, here.
Solutions to second exam.
Second exam.
Review sheet for the second exam.
First exam: questions and solutions.
Here is a review sheet for the first exam.
The continuation of the answer to problem 2.5.1(a) from class is here.
Sometimes when I answer a question from a student by e-mail, I put the answer in the "Content" section of D2L for this course, if I think it might be of general interest. Check it out.
Syllabus for this course.

Homework

(If the current homework assignment is not posted here yet, check the course page at learn.ou.edu)

Assignment 1 (due Fri, Jan 25)

2.3.2(a), 2.3.3(a,b), 2.3.6

Assignment 2 (due Fri, Feb 1)

2.3.2(d,e), and problems 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 from this supplementary problem set.

Assignment 3 (due Fri, Feb 8)

2.5.1(a,d).

Assignment 4 (due Mon, Feb 26)

2.5.5(b,c) and 2.5.6(a).

Assignment 5 (due Mon, Mar 4)

3.2.2(a,d,e), 3.3.2(c), 3.3.5(c).

Assignment 6 (due Mon, Mar 11)

4.4.1(b), 4.4.2(c), and problems 4.1 and 4.4 from the supplementary problem set .

Assignment 7 (due Mon, Mar 25)

5.8.1, 5.8.8(c), and problem 6.4 from the supplementary problem set .

Assignment 8 (due Mon, Apr 8)

7.3.1(a,b), 7.3.3, 7.3.7(a).

Assignment 9 (due Wed, Apr 17)

7.7.3(c), 7.7.9(a). Problem 7.7.3(c) is not in the fourth edition of the text. For a copy of the problem, click here.

Assignment 10 (due Fri, May 3)

7.10.9(b), 7.10.11, and problems 8.2 and 8.3 from the supplementary problem set.