AM 280Fundamental Principles in Applied Mathematics
- Offered
- Fall, Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1988–89
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1985–86 to 1988–89; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Case studies of typical problems in applied mathematics. Classical mechanics of a point mass system. Conservative and dissipative systems. Existence and uniqueness theorems. Modelling with partial differential equations. The mathematics of diffusion processes. Group-theoretic foundations of dimensional analysis and scaling. Regular and singular perturbation theory. Prereq: AM 270, and MATH 240A (or MATH 230A and consent of instructor)
As printed in the 1987–88 to 1988–89 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1985–86 to 1988–89, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1987–88 to 1988–89 2 calendars
Case studies of typical problems in
applied mathematics. Classical mechanics of a point mass system. Conservative and dissipative systems. Existence and uniqueness theorems. Modelling with partial differential equations. The mathematics of diffusion processes. Group-theoretic foundations of dimensional analysis and scaling. Regular and singular perturbation theory. Prereq: AM 270, and MATH 240A (or MATH 230A and consent of instructor)
Offered Fall, Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1985–86 to 1986–87 2 calendars
Titled Introduction to Applied Mathematics.
Case studies of typical problems in Applied Mathematics. Dimensional Analysis and the Pi theorem. Elementary group-theoretic methods. Scaling and perturbation theory.
Prereq: MATH 240A, or MATH 230A and consent of instructor.
Antireq: AM 270