Department of Mathematics
Spring 2010

MATH 418 - Partial Differential Equations

Class Webpage

Class Resources:

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

This Week in MATH 418:

17 november
waves in 2D

08 november
w10green.m: green's function from a fourier series

Web Resources & Interest:

today
delta function
(mathematical) distribution

History (& possible Future):

  week 01: introduction to PDEs
  week 02: first-order PDEs & characteristics
  week 03: the wave equation
  week 04: well-posedness & intro properties of the diffusion equation
  week 05: diffusion solutions
  week 06: laplace equation & eigenfunction expansion solution
  week 07: poisson formula & maximum principle
  week 08: midterm week
  week 09: integrals for laplace equation & green's functions
  week 10: PDEs in 2 & 3 dimensions
  week 11:
  week 12:
  week 13: