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AM 371Partial Differential Equations of Applied Mathematics 1

Offered
Fall, Spring
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1988–89

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1976–77 to 1988–89; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

First order partial differential equations and characteristic curves; classification of linear second order partial differential equations; the Cauchy initial value " problem; the Dirichlet problem. Solution of the heat equation, wave equation, and Laplace's equation by separation of variables; Fourier series; propagation of _ waves; the maximum principle for harmonic functions. Prereq: AM 270 and MATH 2308, or consent of instructor

As printed in the 1986–87 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 1976–77 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.

    1986–87 to 1988–89 3 calendars

    First order partial differential equations and characteristic curves; classification of linear second order partial differential equations; the Cauchy initial value

    " problem; the Dirichlet problem. Solution

    of the heat equation, wave equation, and Laplace's equation by separation of variables; Fourier series; propagation of

    _ waves; the maximum principle for

    harmonic functions. Prereq: AM 270 and MATH 2308, or consent of instructor

    Offered Fall, Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

    1978–79 to 1985–86 8 calendars

    First order partial differential equations and methods of characteristics, second order partial differential equations, boundary value problems and related numerical methods, vibrating string, 2-D membranes, heat equation and related problems; introduction to vector analysis.

    Prereq: AM 260, MATH 2306, or consent of instructor.

    Offered Fall, Spring · 2 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit

    1977–78 1 calendar

    Introduction to partial differential equations with motivating examples; linear first-order equations, derivation of equations for wave motion, vibrating membrane and heat flow, separation of variables, cylindrical and spherical co-ordinates, Besse! and Legendre functions, Fourier analysis, introduction to vector analysis.

    Prereq: AM 260, 270, Math 230, or consent of instructor

    Offered Fall · 2 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit

    1976–77 1 calendar

    Titled Partial Differential Equations of.

    Applied Mathematics

    Derivation of the equations of heat flow, the vibrating membrane and the electro-magnetic field equations by various elementary techniques and illustrations of the use of calculus of variations in the derivation of equations; solutions of the above equations by separation of variables; Fourier analysis and Fourier integral.

    Prerequisite: AM 260, 270, M 230 or consent of instructor. 2 hours lectures, 1 hour tutorial, Winter term