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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
1/16: Martin Luther King Day 1/18:  Complex Arithmetic
1/23: Complex Functions 1/25:  Analyticity,  Cauchy-Riemann Equations & Contour Integration
1/30: Contour Integration & Taylor Series 2/1: Isolated Singularities & Laurent Series
2/6: The Residue Calculus 2/8: Evaluation of Integrals with the Residue Calculus
2/13: Introduction to the Laplace Transforms 2/15: Heaviside Functions and the Second Shifting Theorem
2/20: Laplace Transforms: Convolutions and δ-functions  2/22: Green's Functions, Convolution & Continuous Superposition
2/27: Inverse Laplace Transforms via Mellin Inversion. 2/29: Intro to PDE and the Heat Equation
Midterm I  Available
3/5: MAPLE Lab
Midterm I Due
3/7:  Separation of Variables (SoV) for the Heat Equation
3/12: Spring Break 3/16: Spring Break
3/19:  Fourier Series, Orthogonal Functions & L2 Error 3/21: Convergence & Gibb's Phenomena
3/26:  SoV for Heat Equation (Insulated Walls, Inhomogeneous BC's) 3/28: The Wave Equation and SoV
4/2: Intro to Fourier Transforms 4/4: Fourier Transforms: Convolutions and δ-functions 
4/9: Fourier Transforms: Gaussians & the  Heat Eqn 4/11: Fourier Transforms: d'Alembert Solution for the Wave Eqn 
4/16:  The Spherical Turkey

4/18: Sturm-Liouville Problems
Midterm II Available
4/23:  Vibration of an Axisymmetric Circular Membrane &
Bessel's Equation

Midterm II Due
4/25: Non-axisymmetric Vibrations of a Circular Membrane


Final Exam/Grade Offer will be available by Thursday, May 3rd and due on Wednesday, May 9th at 4PM.

The course will have 27 lectures.


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Andrew Bernoff , Math 115, Spring 2012

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