| Instructor: |
Davar Khoshnevisan (Contact Information | Office Hours) |
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| Time/Place: | MWF 11:00 am-12:00 pm,
LCB 219
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| Text: | Partial Differential
Equations, N. H. Asmar, Prentice Hall,
Second Ed. |
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| Course Description: |
This is a first course in undergraduate PDEs.
It requires a solid knowledge of math. 2250 and either
one of math 1260 or math 2210. Topics include
Fourier series and boundary-value problems for the wave,
heat, and Laplace equations, separation of variables,
Sturm-Liouville problems and orthogonal expansions,
Bessel functions and Legendre polynomials.
The Fourier transform.
This course is two credit hours.
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| Grading: |
The student's grade is based on scores from weekly
of bi-weekly quizzes (25% total), three midterms
(the best two count for 25% each), and a comprehensive final
exam (25%). The midterm exams are not
comprehensive. The grading curve follows.
Further refinements to the grade (e.g., A-, B+,
etc.) are made in accord with the fine details of
the student's individual performance.
| %-age |
86-100 |
76-85 |
61-75 |
51-60 |
0-50 |
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| Grade | A |
B | C |
D | E |
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| Exams: |
The highest two midterm scores, out of the three, make up
50% of the student's grade in the course. The lowest
midterm score is dropped. There are no
make-up tests in this course, and the midterms
are not comprehensive.
(dates)
There is also a comprehensive final exam;
it accounts for 25% of the grade (schedule). |
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| Homework and Quizzes: |
Homework is posted under "Homework" below.
New assignments are announced during the lectures,
and have assigned due dates. However, homework is
not collected, nor graded. Instead there will be
weekly (occasionally biweekly) quizzes based on the
material of the most recent homework. Each quiz is
approximately 15-20 minutes long only; the total
points for the quizzes is 25%
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| Seeking Help: |
To find help, the students are encouraged to visit the
instructor during the designated drop-in office hour
(web link),
schedule an appointment
(web link), or
visit the fine (no-cost) tutoring center
(web link)
of the department of mathematics. The tutoring center
is centered at the T. B. Rushing Undergraduate Student
Center in the basement of LCB. |
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