When & WhereThursdays, 15:00 - 17:00, A229 and Fridays, 17:00 - 18:00 A230, College Building (LECTURING HAS CONCLUDED.)
Surgery HoursFriday, 16:00 - 17:00 Office: CM230, Tait Building
Please do not come outside the surgery hours. In case of urgent enquiries send an e-mail to c.korff@city.ac.uk with "MA3605" in the subject line.
Announcements
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A copy of my lecture notes will be available in the General Office CM326 at the beginning of January 2006.
Solutions to the exercise sheets and the two mock exams are posted below.
Coursework 2 has been marked and is in your pigeonholes in CM326.
Note: "extra" points have been awarded to those students who handed in more than 3 problems in coursework 2. They will be added to your total coursework score. A list of the coursework results can be found here.
A copy of my lecture notes will be available in the General Office CM326 at the beginning of January 2006.
Solutions to the exercise sheets and the two mock exams are posted below.
Coursework 2 has been marked and is in your pigeonholes in CM326.
Note: "extra" points have been awarded to those students who handed in more than 3 problems in coursework 2. They will be added to your total coursework score. A list of the coursework results can be found here.
Download links for course materialExercise Sheet 1 + partial solution (Wednesday 5/10); handwritten solution
Coursework 1 + solution (handed out: Thursday 13/10, solution: 28/10)
Correction for lecture 4 (Tuesday 18/10)
Quiz 1 + solution for Part 2 (21/10)
Exercise Sheet 2 (handed out: Thursday 27/10); handwritten solution
Exercise Sheet 3 (handed out: Friday 4/10); handwritten solution
Coursework 2 + solution (handed out: Thursday 17/11, deadline: 5:00 pm, Friday 2/12)
Mock Exam I (handed out: Thursday 24/11); handwritten solution (Note: I have altered problem 4 and made it a bit easier.)
Mock Exam II (handed out Friday 25/11); handwritten solution
Revision lecture (01/12)
Course
Description
Various
methods to solve simple ordinary and partial differential equations:
Laplace and Fourier transforms, coupled linear differential equations,
application of complex analysis and conformal maps to boundary
problems. For a more detailed syllabus of the lecture click here.
There will be two courseworks (20% of the final grade) and one final exam (80% of the final grade).
LiteratureThe material covered in the course can be found to a large part in Chapters 7, 9, 10 and 11 of
R. Kent Nagle and Edward B. Saff, Fundamentals of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, Addison Wesley (ISBN 020133867X)
and Chapters 2, 3, 8, 9 of
Murray R. Spiegel, Theory and Problems of Complex Variables (Schaum's Outline Series), McGraw Hill
Note: It is not compulsory
to purchase the aforementioned books for following the lecture. They
are useful references for revision, extra reading and have numerous
sample
calculations and exercises which you can work through in conjunction
with the lecture.