Math 4581 A

Classical Mathematical Methods in Engineering

Spring 2001

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• Instructor: George Cain

• Office hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 - 8:55 a.m., and any other time I am in my office.

• Meeting Places & Times:
  Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 11:05 a.m. - 11:55 a.m.
  Room 202, William Vernon Skiles Classroom Building

• Textbook: There is no required textbook for the course. Material from several sources will be discussed. You can read these fine notes for the course.
  A suggested reference is Fourier Series and Orthogonal Functions, by Harry F. Davis (Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-65973-9). Additional references will be suggested as the semester develops.

  You can see a very tentative outline for the course. Keep in mind that it is subject to much change as the drama of the semester unfolds.

• Quizzes: There will be two in-class "hour" quizzes and a final examination. The quizzes will be Monday, February 12, and Wednesday, April 18. The Final Examination is scheduled by the Office of the Registrar. Please find out when it is before you schedule a flight home, a wedding, a mountain climbing trip, or any other activity during the week of final exams.
  You will be allowed to use any books, notes, tables, calculators, or computers you wish on the quizzes and the final examination.

  Here are solutions for the quizzes:

  Quiz One      Quiz Two

• Final examination: The Office of the Registrar has published the schedule of final examinations. The examination for Math 4581A is to be
  Friday, May 4, 2:50 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.

  Room 202, Skiles Classroom Building

  Here are my final examination solutions.

  My office hours for the week of finals (April 30 - May 4) are

  10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, every day

  As usual, you may see me any time I am in my office--and I shall be around most of the week.

• Homework: There will be regular homework assignments. Most of these will not be collected and graded, but it is most important that you at least have a go at these problems as they will form the basis for a good bit of the class discussion. There will also be homework for you to hand in to be graded. Here are these assignments.

• Grades: Your grade for the course will be determined from the following data:

  Quizzes, 2 @ 100	200
  Homework	100
  Final examination	200
  Total	500

  You can see your grade as of right now. Let me know if anything looks exceedingly mysterious to you.

• Important notice: Please read and heed this important notice

• Class roll: Take a look at what the Office of the Registrar says is the final official class roll for the course. If you think you are registered for the course and do not see your name, see the Registrar's Office as soon as possible.

• Notes: Professor Herod has recently taught a web based version of this course. You might like to take a look at his notes for this course.

  You can see the notes for Friday's (Feb. 2) scintillating lecture.

  Here for your reading pleasure is the example from class Wednesday(Feb. 21).

  Take a look at the notes for the class discussion of the solustion of Laplace's equation on a disc. They look a lot different from what I did in class.

  You can see the notes for the lecture Friday, March 23.

• Course grades: Here is your course grade. Be sure and let me know if anything looks strange to you.

  The class was a pleasure for me. I wish you all the best and hope you have a fine summer.

A vulgar mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road, he is at a stand; whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets every rub. .