MATH 4581

Summer 2010

MWF 10:40-11:50 Sustainable Educ, room 110

Professor Federico Bonetto

Office Hours: MW 12-1, Skiles 224
Grader:
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Grader Office Hours: TBA

The course will discuss the solution of Boundary Value Problems for classical Partial Differential Equations.

The text that will be used is:

David L. Powers, Boundary Value Problem 6th Edition, Harcourt Academic Press. If you have the fifth edition you can use it. There are only minor differences with the newest edition. Some of the exercises have changed number. Incase one such exercise is assigned has a HW the number relative to the fifth edition will appear in square brakets (e.g. [12]).

There will be two midterm. The first midterm will be on Friday 6/18 and the second on Friday 7/9. The midterms will test all the material covered up to the Friday before the test date.

The exercise listed are for HW collection. I will collect them every two weeks and grade 2 or 3 exercises among the one assigned.

The final greade will be based on the following rules: 50% final, 40% midterms, 10% HW. Curving will be done on the final result.

Assignments for the Long Distance students are due 1 weeks after the normal students due date.

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The first midterm will be on Friday 18/6. It will cover all the material up to section 2.2. You may use a scientific calculator but no laptop or calculator able to do symbolic differentiation or integration. No cheat sheet will be allowed.

Here is some preparation material: fall 2005 miterm and solution set and a practice test with solution set.

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Solution set for the first midterm.

The first midterm will be on Friday 9/7. It will cover all the material up to section 2.9. You may use a scientific calculator but no laptop or calculator able to do symbolic differentiation or integration. No cheat sheet will be allowed.

Here is some preparation material: fall 2004 miterm and fall 05 midterm with solution set.


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    Preparation for midterm and midterm.

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The final exam will be on Monday August 2 at 8:00am in the usual lecture room. The exam will cover all the material of the class. The sections of the book covered by the exam are the one listed above.

Preparation material: Final from fall 04, fall 05 and fall 07.