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March 23, 2020

1.   Reading Assignment: Pages 115 - 118

2.   Introduction to Sturm-Liouville Theory

3.   Exercise 3, section 4.1

4.    Exercise 7, section 4.1

5.    Homework1 – problems 2 and 4 pages 126-127.  You need to use Theorem 4.3 page 120 for problem 2.

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March 25, 2020

1.    Reading Assignment:  Pages 118 - 124

2.    Continuation with Sturm-Liouville Theory

3.    Exercise 2, section 4.1

4.    Exercise 4, section 4.1

 

March 27, 2020

1.   Reading Assignment: Pages 125-129

2.   There will be no more collected homework this semester, not even Homework1.

3.   Periodic Sturm-Liouville Theory (mp4 movie)

4.   Singular Sturm-Liouville Theory – the definition on page 129 and the example 4.2.1 at bottom of page

5.   Exercise 8, 9, and 12 in section 4.1

 

March 28, 2020

1.   Reading Assignment: Pages 129 – 131: Section 4.2: ``Singular Sturm-Liouville Theory’’

2.   Singular Sturm-Liouville Theory

3.   Boundary Conditions in Singular SL Theory

4.   Exercises 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 in section 4.2

 

March 30, 2020

1.   Reading Assignment: Pages 131- 134: “Examples of (famous)  Sturm-Liouville Problems”

2.   The Singular Sturm-Liouville Theorem

3.   Legendre Polynomials

4.   Exercises 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 in section 4.2

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April 1, 2020

1.   Reading Assignment: Pages 135-141 (Legendre’s equation and Bessel’s equation)

2.   Bessel Functions (video)(https://youtu.be/z8HejV_oDSY)

3.   Exercise 3 in Section 4.2 Solution(video)( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF94UmuUhRw  )

4.   Exercise 7 in Section 4.2 (pdf) (solution)

 

April 3, 2020

1.   Reading Assignment: Pages 135-141 (General orthogonal expansions)

2.   A singular SL problem with Bessel’s equation of order n (video)( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaX9-jcLjdk )

3.   General Orthogonal Expansions (video)

4.   Study Guide for Test #2 (April 10-11) (pdf)

 

April 4, 2020

1.    Reading Assignment:  Section 5.5: Pages 181-182: ``Laplace’s Equation in 2-D’’

2.    Reading Assignment:  Section 5.6: Pages 186-188: ``The 2-D Wave and Heat Equations”

3.    Section 5.5: Exercises 1,2,3 – parts (a) only

4.    Exercise #1 Section 5.6 Solution (.pdf)

5.    Animation of solution of problem 1, section 5.6 (video)

 

April 6, 2020

1.   Reading Assignment:  Pages 189-192: ``Laplace’s Equation in Polar Coordinates”

2.   Derivation of Laplacian Operator in Polar Coordinates (.pdf)

3.   Comments on Laplace’s equation in a disk (video)

4.   Exercises:  Be able to do problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10

 

April 8, 2020

1.   Review Day:  Available all day (9 am – 4 pm) to answer question by email.  I’ll check my email hourly.

2.   Solutions to Exercises 8, 9, and 12 in section 4.1 and Exercises 1, 2 and 5 in section 4.2.

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April 10, 2020

1.    Test Day #1:

 

 

 

April 11, 2020    Test Day #2: Test #2 is due at 11:59 pm at Moodle.

1.   Reading Assignment:  Pages 189 – 198: More on Section 6.1: “Laplace’s Equation in Polar Coordinates”

2.   Problem #2, page 196: Boundary value problem on the exterior of a disk    (video)

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April 13, 2020

1.   Reading Assignment:  Pages 204 – 209: Section 6.3: ``The Wave and Heat Equations in Polar Coordinates”

2.   Survey of the solution of the wave equation in polar coordinates  (video)

3.   Exercise 1 on page 209   (pdf)

4.   Exercise 1 on page 209   (video)

5.   Exercise 3 page 197, section 6.1 (video)

 

April 15, 2020

1.   Reading Assignment:  Pages 210 – 216: Section 6.4: “Laplace’s equation in cylindrical coordinates”

2.    Laplace’s equation in a cylinder, pages 210-212 (video)

3.   Problem 3, Section 6.4 (.pdf), “Laplace’s  equation in a half-cylinder”

 

April 17, 2020

1.    Finish section 6.4 on Laplace’s equation in cylindrical coordinates

2.    Reading Assignment:  Pages 217-219: “Laplace’s equation in spherical coordinates:  The rotational symmetric case”

3.    Problem 5 in Section 6.4: {.pdf}

 

April 20, 2020

1.    Reading Assignment:  Pages 217-219:  6.5: “Laplace’s equation in spherical coordinates:  The rotational symmetric case”

2.    Exercise: Solve Laplace’s equation in the interior of a sphere ( .pdf)  (pages 218-219 in textbook)

3.    Exercise: Solve Laplace’s equation in the exterior of a sphere ( .pdf)  (Exercise 7, page 229)

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April 22, 2020

1.   Reading Assignment:  Section 6.5, pages 220 – 222.

2.    Laplace’s equation in a sphere:  the general case: (.pdf) In this pdf I expand the discussion on pages 220-222 to 7 pages in order to clarify and expand the discussion provided by the author.

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