books & lecture notes (reserve list)
books & lecture notes (reserve list) webct & discussion group (webct.sfu.ca)
note: additional content for math 418
can be found on the webct page
this website will also function as a back-up site in the event of a webct problem
w02wave.m: d'alembert plotting demo w02waveF1.m, w02waveF2.m
: initial data functions
w02char.m: characteristic plotting demo
previous content archived to links below
warm-up problems, minor typos corrected from the version handed out in lecture
writing guide
required text -- partial differential equations (strauss)
online additional text -- PDEs in action: from modelling to theory (salsa) online coffee table book for PDEs -- applied PDEs: a visual approach (markowich) online book on PDEs with maple -- PDEs & boundary value problems with Maple V (articolo) online book on computational PDEs --
introduction to PDEs: a computational approach (tveito & winther) online text for review of BVPs --
BVPs & PDEs (powers) online book on advanced PDE analysis --
an introduction to PDEs (renardy & rogers)
today d'alembert kovalevskaya method of characteristics
directional derivative cauchy-kowalevski theorem
week 01: introduction to PDEs week 02: first-order PDEs & characteristics week 03: week 04: week 05: week 06: week 07: week 08: week 09: week 10: week 11: week 12: week 13: