Math 112C, Introduction
to Partial Differential Equations
ET202, MWF 3:00-3:50pm; Spring Quarter, 2008
Instructor:
Dr. Shuwang Li; Email: lis@math.uci.edu.NOSPAM
Webpage www.math.uci.edu/~lis
Office hour: Tue.
1:20~3:00pm at MSTB 289
TA : G. Mueller, Email: gmueller@math.uci.edu.
Office
RH420B.
Textbook
H.F. Weinberger, A First Course in Partial
Differential Equations (with Complex Variables and Trtansform
Methods),
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
Prerequisites
Math 2D, 2J, 3D, 2E, 112A, and 112B. Students should be able to do
multivariable calculus, complex numbers, linear algebra and oridinary
differential equations.
Discussion
Sessions
Each student must be
signed up
for the discussion session listed below:
44510
LECTURE: ET202 MWF 3:00 ~ 3:50 pm
44511
DIS : ET202 T. Th. 3:00 ~ 3:50 pm
In the discussion sessions
TA will go over recently assigned homework
problems and will answer your questions
about the lecture. Please come prepared
to ask questions. In other words, do the homework before coming to the
discussion.
Homework, Quizzes,
Tests and
Grades
- Homework will be assigned
at the beginning of each class and will not be
collected, but you are supposed to do them all. REMEMBER: the more problems you do, the
better you understand the material. Students are encouraged to work together
on homework sets.
- There will be approximately
one quiz per week in the discussion
session on Thursday. There are two to
four short questions in one quiz. The quiz problems
will be either the same as, or very similar to those
from the homework. Thus, if a student has made a good
attempt at the homework, he/she should do well on the quiz.
Two lowest quiz grades will be dropped from the final grade
calculation. You must have a doctor's or University authorized
excuse in order to make up a missed quiz.
- There will be one midterm
exam, and a comprehensive final exam covering
all materials I talked. Final exam is
scheduled on June 9 (Mon. from 4:00pm to 6:00pm), and
it is predetermined and immovable.
I will give at least one week notice
in class of upcoming midterm exams. You
must have a doctor's or University authorized excuse
in order to make up a missed test.
- Grades are posted on
EEE gradebook. A weighted
course percentage, wcp, will be calculated
according to the following weights: Quizzes
25%, Midterm 25%, , and Final Exam 50%. As an
example, if I have 90% of Quiz, 90% of Midterm,
and 70% of Final Exam points, then my course percentage
is .25(90%) + .25(90%) + .5(70%) = 80%. The formula
is wcp=0.25(quiz%)
+ 0.25(midterm%) + 0.5(final%). Letter grades, on the plus/minus scale
(e.g., B+, B, B-), will be decided
at the end of the term.
- Academic dishonesty of any form
will not be tolerated.
- Tentative class
schedule :
Green's function, higher dimension PDEs, Fourier transform,
special functions.
Homework Assignments
Reading assignment: Weinberger's
book, section 30 and 31.
Homework 1:
section 29: 2, 3, 9; Review the lecture notes and derive the Green function
for Poisson Eq. in a disk by yourself.
Homework 2:
section 30: 1, 2, 4; Review the lecture notes and understand how to derive
the solution to a PDE using the Green function.
Homework 3:
Review the lecture notes and
work out the homework assigned in class.
Homework 4:
Review the lecture notes and
work out the homework assigned in class.
Homework 5:
Review the lecture notes and
work out the homework assigned in class.
Homework 6: section 32: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6;
Study Guides for Final Exam: math112c_prac.pdf