MTH 418/518

SYLLABUS

SPRING 2007
Instructor: Prof. C. O. Bloom
E-Mail: cobloom@acsu.buffalo.edu
Office: 230 Mathematics Building
Office Hours: Mon. 2:00 -3:00 PM, Wed. 2:00 - 3:00 PM and by appointment
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Lectures: Mon., Wed., Fri. 11:00 - 11:50 AM, 150 Math Building
Recitation: 418A - Mon., 2-2:50 PM, Norton 218
(Recitations begin on the second week of classes.)
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Text #1(Required): Elementary Applied Partial Differential Equations, by Richard
Haberman, Prentice Hall (Fourth Edition)
Topics: (To be covered as time allows)
Chapter 1- Heat Equation: 1.1-1.5
Chapter 2- Method of Separation of Variables: 2.1-2.5
Chapter 3- Fourier Series: 3.1-3.5
Chapter 4 -Vibrating Strings and Membranes: 4.1-4.5
Chapter 5-Sturm-Liouville Eigenvalue Problems: 5.1-5.8

Selected sections of the following (as time allows)

Chapter 7-Partial Differential Equations with at Least Three Independent Variables: 7.1-7.10
Chapter 8-Non-homogeneous Problems: 8.1-8.6
Chapter 9-Greens functions for Time-independent Problems: 9.1-9.3.6, 9.5-9.7
Chapter 11-Green's Functions for Time-dependent Problems: 11.1-11.3

Grading:
1. Your test average with the first exam weighted 25%, the second exam
weighted 25%, the third exam weighted 25%, and the final exam
weighted 25% will be computed.
2. The lowest of the three semester exam grades will be dropped and
your test average will be computed with your two highest test scores
weighted as 30% each, and your final exam score weighted as 40%.
Your letter grade will be assigned based on the higher of 1. & 2.
+/- Grades will be assigned.
3. If your average on the first three tests is at least 80% you may elect
not to take the final exam. Your grade will be computed entirely on
the basis your test average.
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Tests

Date

Study Guide Test #1

Wednesday, 2/21/07

11:00-11:50 AM
150 Math

Wednesday, 4/25/07

11:00-11:50 AM
150 Math

Monday, 5/7/07

11:45-2:45 PM KNOX
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Study Guide
Final
Exam 418/518

Lecture Date
Week #1
1/17/07
1/19/07

Week #2
1/22/07
1/26/07

11:00-11:50 AM
150 Math

Friday, 3/23/07

Study Guide Test #2

Study Guide Test #3

Time and Location

Reading
Text #1:
Chap.1: 1.1-1.4
Chap.1:1.5,
Appendix to 1.5

Text#1:
Chap.
2: 2. 1, 2.2, 2.3

Homework
Chap.1:
Exercises 1.2, pp. 10-11
Exercises 1.3: #1.3.2, p. 14
Exercises 1.4: #1.4.1, 1.4.7
Exercises 1.5: #1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3-1.5.9,
1.5.11, 1.5.12

Do By

1/19/07

Chap. 2:
Exercises 2.3 : # 2.3.1-2.3.8

1/22/07
1/26/07

1/29/07
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Week #3
1/29/07
2/02/07

Text #1:
Chap. 2: 2.4, 2.5.1,
2.5.2, 2.5.4

Chap. 2:

Week #4
2/05/07
2/09/07
Week #5
2/12/07
2/16/07

Text #1:
Chap.
2: 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.4

Chap. 2:
Exercises 2.5 : # 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.32.5.7, 2.5.8, 2.5.9

Text #1:
Chap. 3: 3.1, 3.2,
3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3,
3.3.4, 3.3.5
Preview of Test #1
Text #1:
Chap. 3: 3.4

Chap. 3:
Exercises 3.2: # 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.4
Exercises 3.3: #3.3.1-3.3.10, 3.3.18

Chap. 3: Exercises 3.4: #3.4.1-3.4.9,

3.4.10-3.4.13

2/19/07
2/23/07

Text#1:
Chap. 4: 4.1, 4.2,
4.3, 4.4, 4.5

Chap. 4: Exercises 4.3: #4.3.1, 4.3.2

Exercises 4.4: #4.4.1-4.4.12
Exercises 4.5: #4.5.

2/26/07
3/02/07

Text#1:
Chap. 8: 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Chap. 8: 8.4
Chap. 5: 5.1-5.3
Chap. 5: 5.4

Chap. 8:
Exercises 8.2: #8.2.1-8.2.6
Exercises 8.3: #8.3.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.5-8.3.7
Exercises 8.4: #8.4.1, 8.4.2, 8.4.4
Chap. 5:
Exercises 5.3: #5.3.1-5.3.6, 5.3.7, 5.3.9,

3/05/
07
3/09/07

Week #6
2/19/07
2/23/07
Week #7
2/26/07
3/02/07
Week #8
3/05/07
3/09/07

Exercises 2.4 : # 2.4.1-2.4.3,

2.4.6, 2.4.7
Exercises 2.5 : # 2.5.1, 2.5.2,
2.5.3-2.5.7, 2.5.8, 2.5.9

2/05/07
2/09/07
2/12/07
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Week #9
3/19/07
3/23/07
Week #10

Text#1:
Preview of Test #2
Chap. 8: 8.5

5.3.10
Exercises 5.4: #5.4.1-5.4.5
Chap. 8:
Exercises 8.5: #8.5.1, 8.5.2, 8.5.4

3/19/07
3/23/07

Chap. 8: 8.6
Chap. 5: 5.5, 5.6-5.8

Chap. 8:
Exercises 8.6: 8.6.1, 8.6.2, 8.6.5-8.6.7
Chap. 5:
Exercises 5.5: #5.5.1-5.5.4, 5.5.7
Exercises 5.6: # 5.6.1, 5.6.2
Exercises 5.7: # 5.7.1-5.7.2
Exercises 5.8: # 5.8.2, 5.8.3, 5.8.55.8.8, 5.8.9

3/26/07
3/30/07

Text #1:
Chap.5:5.6-5.8
Chap.7: 7.1-7.3,
Appendix to 7.3
Chap.7: 7.4,7.5, 7.6
Text #1:
Chap.7: 7.1-7.3,
Appendix to 7.3
Chap.7: 7.4,7.5, 7.6

Exercises 5.6: # 5.6.1, 5.6.2

Exercises 5.7: # 5.7.1-5.7.2
Exercises 5.8: # 5.8.2, 5.8.3, 5.8.55.8.8, 5.8.9

4/02/
07
4/06/07

Exercises 7.3: 7.3.1, 7.3.2-7.3.7

Exercises 7.4: 7.4.1-7.4.3
Exercises 7.5: 7.5.1-7.5.4, 7.5.6- 7.5.8
Exercises 7.6: 7.6.1-7.6.4

4/09/07
4/13/07

Week #13
4/16/07
4/20/07

Text #1:
Chap. 7: 7.7, 7.9

Exercises 7.7: 7.7.1-7.7.4, 7.7.7-7.7.9

Exercises 7.9:7.9.1-7.9.5

4/16/
07
4/20/07

Week #14
4/23/07
4/27/07

Text #1:

3/26/07
3/30/07

Week #11
4/02/07
4/06/07
Week #12
4/09/07
4/13/07

Week #15
4/30/07

See Study Guide

See Study Guide

for Final Exam

for Final Exam

4/23/
07
4/27/07

4/30/07

GENERAL INFORMATION Students with Disabilities: If you have a diagnosed

disability (physical, learning or psychological) which will make it difficult for you to
carry out the course work as outlined, or requires accommodations such as recruiting
note takers, readers, or extra time on exams and/or assignments, please advise me
during the first two weeks of the course so that we may review possible arrangements
for reasonable accommodations.
Making up an Incomplete in mathematics: To make up an incomplete, you must...
1.
2.
3.
4.

5.

Not re-register for the course You are making up an incomplete in your original
course.
Appear in person at the Mathematics Building, Room 237, and request a petition
form
Sign the petition.
a) If your original instructor determined that the work was to be completed with
him/her, take the approved petition form to your original instructor for his/her
signature.
b) If your original instructor determined that the work was to be completed by your
repeating the course, take the approved petition form to your new instructor for
his/her signature.
Return the petition form to Rosemarie Marciniak in Room 244 Mathematics
Building by the last day of drop/add (Friday, January 27).

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Repeating Course: If this course is being taken to repeat a course previously taken at UB, it is
important , for financial aid purposes, to be registered for 12 credit hours in addition to the
course which is being repeated to be considered full time.

Important Dates:
Friday, January 26: Last day to drop course no record appears on transcript.
Friday, January 26: Last day to file "Petition to make up an incomplete" with the Department of
Mathematics for SP 2007 class attendance.
Friday, March 20: Last day to "resign" Spring 2007 courses. A grade of "R" appears on transcript.
(One semester UB students have until March 31 (3 WEEKS LATER) to resign with an "R" provided
they have contacted their advisor about this option prior to March 31 to discuss this option.)