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MATH 115: Tentative Lecture Schedule

This is a tentative schedule; it will almost certainly shift and change as the semester progresses.


Monday Wednesday
1/21: Martin Luther King Day 1/23:  Complex Arithmetic
1/28: Complex Functions 1/30:  Analyticity,  Cauchy-Riemann Equations & Contour Integration
2/4: Contour Integration & Taylor Series 2/6: Isolated Singularities & Laurent Series
2/11: The Residue Calculus 2/13: Evaluation of Integrals with the Residue Calculus
2/18: Introduction to the Laplace Transforms 2/20: Heaviside Functions and the Second Shifting Theorem
2/25: Laplace Transforms: Convolutions and δ-functions  2/27: Green's Functions, Convolution & Continuous Superposition
3/4: Inverse Laplace Transforms via Mellin Inversion. 3/6: Intro to PDE and the Heat Equation
Midterm I  Available
3/11: MAPLE Lab
Midterm I Due
3/13:  Separation of Variables (SoV) for the Heat Equation
3/18: Spring Break 3/20: Spring Break
3/25:  Fourier Series, Orthogonal Functions & L2 Error 3/27: Convergence & Gibb's Phenomena
4/1:  SoV for Heat Equation (Insulated Walls, Inhomogeneous BC's) 4/3: The Wave Equation and SoV
4/8: Intro to Fourier Transforms 4/4: Fourier Transforms: Convolutions and δ-functions 
4/15: Fourier Transforms: Gaussians & the  Heat Eqn 4/17: Fourier Transforms: d'Alembert Solution for the Wave Eqn 
4/22:  The Spherical Turkey

4/24: Sturm-Liouville Problems
Midterm II Available
4/29:  Vibration of an Axisymmetric Circular Membrane &
Bessel's Equation

Midterm II Due
5/1: Non-axisymmetric Vibrations of a Circular Membrane


Final Exam/Grade Offer will be available by Thursday, May 9th and due on Wednesday, May 15th at 4PM.

The course will have 27 lectures.



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Andrew Bernoff , Math 115, Spring 2013

Last modified: 1-16-13