Tentative Schedule:

Week

Dates

M

W

F

Other

1

2/9 – 2/13

Matrices I (3.2-3)

Vectors & dot prod. (3.4)

Matrices II (3.6)

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2

2/16 - 2/20

Linear combinations & independence (3.7,3.8)

Vector spaces (3.10,3.14)

Eigenvalues (3.11)

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3

2/23 - 2/27

Eigenvalues (3.11)

Diagonalization (3.11)

DE review (8.2,8.3)

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4

3/2 - 3/6

2nd order DEs (8.5)

2nd order DEs and eit (8.5, 7.2)

Forced DEs (8.6)

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5

3/9 - 3/13

Exam 1

Fourier series I (7.5-6)

Fourier series II (7.7-8)

Exam 3/9

Read 7.1-7.4

6

3/16 - 3/20

Fourier series III (7.9-10)

Fourier series IV

Parseval's Theorem (7.11)

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7

3/23 - 3/27

Spring Break

Spring Break

Spring Break

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8

3/30 - 4/3

Series solutions to DEs (12.1)

Legendre’s Eqn (12.2)

Rodriques’ formula/properties of L.Ps (12.3-5)

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9

4/6 - 4/10

Orthogonality of L.Ps (12.7-8)

Legendre series (12.9)

Easter Break

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10

4/13 - 4/17

Easter Break

Frobenius method (12.11)

Bessel’s eqn (12.12)

Bessel Functions (12.14)

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11

4/20 - 4/24

Laplace’s eqn (13.1/13.2)

Exam 2

Laplace’s eqn /Review

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12

4/27 - 5/1

heat eqn derivation

1d heat eqn (13.3)

1d wave eqn (13.4)

Exam 4/27

13

5/4 - 5/8

1d wave eqn (13.4)

cyl. heat eqn (13.5)

other pde’s (13.6-7)

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14

5/10 - 5/15

other pde’s (13.6-7)

Exam 3

Tensors I

Exam 5/12

15

5/18 - 5/22

Tensors II (10.3-10.4)

Review

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Final 5/25

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