MATH 4220/5220
Instructor: Theodore Kolokolnikov
Course webpage: http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~tkolokol/classes/5220
Office: Chase building, 304
Email: tkolokol at mathstat period dal period ca
Office hours: MWF 11:30-12:30.

Handouts:

  • Homework 2, due mon, 3 oct: 1.3(9,10); 1.6(3,4,6); 2.1(1,3,5,6,8); 2.2(1,6).
  • Homework 3, due Fri, 14 oct: 2.3 (2,4,8); 2.4(1,6,18), 3.1(4), 3.3(1,3), 3.4(1), 3.5(1,2). Note: 3.5 is for grad students; undergrads who do them will get bonus marks.
  • Homework 4, due Wed, 26 oct: 4.1: 3,4,5; 4.2: 4; 4.3: 6,17; 5.1: 5; 5.3: 4,9 [no grad student question this time]
  • Sample midterm questions
  • Midterm
  • HW5 due wed, 9 nov | solutions
  • HW6 due wed, 23 nov
  • HW7 due wed, 7 dec | Solutions
  • Traffic modelling; method of characteristics; shock formation; Burger's equation; shock propagation.
  • HW8, not to be handed in
  • Review sheet, additional sample questions
  • Final exam

    Textbook: Walter A. Strauss, Partial Differential Equations, an introduction

    Course outline: We will cover Chapters 1,2,4,5,6,14.1 which cover the fundamental PDE's (Laplace, heat and wave equations, shocks). After that, a selection of topics from remaining chapters will be chosen depending on class interest and time constraints.

    Evaluation: There will be bi-weekly homeworks worth 40%, a midterm (20%), and a final exam (40%).