20000-11 Mathematical Methods for Physical Sciences II

Winter 2007

Instructor

Anna Wienhard

Email

standard email

Reader

Octavia Biris, octaviab@uchicago.edu





Office hours

Ry360I, Mondays 10:00-11:00 and Wednesdays 17:00-18:00.



Course info

Lectures MWF 8:30-9:20, E203


Book

Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems by William E. Boyce and Richard DiPrima, and Complex Variables: Second Edition, by Stephen D. Fisher.

Exams

Hour Test 1: Friday, February 2 (in class)
Final: Monday, March 12, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. in E203

Practice for Mitderm



General Policy: Homework will be assigned weekly. There will a one hour test in class and one final exam.

Let me just recall the homework policies. You are encouraged to work on homework together, but you must write up the solutions by yourself. Please indicate with whom you worked together. If you stumble across the solution to a homework problem in a book or somewhere else, you may write up this solution, but you have to give the reference where you got it from. No late homework will be accepted. Please order and staple your solutions together and put your name on it. Unreadable homework will not be corrected.

Grading: 

·  Homework: 30%

·  Hour Test: 30%

·  Final: 40%

Home work: Homework is due at the beginning of class. Exercises are from the Textbooks unless specified otherwise

Due

Homework Assignment

10 Jan 07

All Problems are from Boyce-DiPrima.
1) Read Chapter 1 of Boyce-DiPrima.
2) Problems 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 on pages 8 and 9.
3) Problem 21, 24 on page 8.
4) Problems 9 and 10 on page 17.
5) Problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 on page 24.
6) Problems 14 and 15 on page 25.
Bonus: Problem 25 on pages 9/10, Problem 11 on page 17.

17 Jan 07

1) Problems 13 through 17 on page 39.
2) Problem 30 on page 40.
3) Problem 31 on page 40/41.
4) Problems 4 through 8 on page 47.
5) Problems 1 and 3 on page 59.

Bonus: Read Example 2, page 54-56. Solve problem 9 on page 61.

24 Jan 07

1) Problem 1, 4 on p. 99, Problem 7, 13, 14 on p. 100.
2) Problem 19, 20, 21 on p. 100, Problem 25, 27 on p. 101.
3) Problem 1, 2 on p. 117.
4) Problem 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on p. 75.
5) Problem 8, 9 on p. 76.

Bonus: Problem 24 on p. 64.

31 Jan 07

Assignment
Bonus: Read Problems 28 and 33 on page 152, solve Problem 29 and 34 on page 152.

07 Feb 07

Assignment


14 Feb 07

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21 Feb 07

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28 Feb 07

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07 Mar 07

Assignment

 

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