CAAM 336 · Differential Equations in Science and Engineering

Fall 2013 · Rice University


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Lectures

Lecture 17:
Fri 4 Oct
Symmetric linear operators; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of symmetric linear operators
Lecture 16:
Wed 2 Oct
The spectral method for solving Ax=b; Null space
Lecture 15:
Mon 30 Sep
The spectral method for solving Ax=b; The Fredholm alternative for solving Ax=b
Lecture 14:
Fri 27 Sep
Determinant; Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices; Transpose; Dot product; Symmetric matrices; Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric matrices; The spectral method for solving Ax=b
Lecture 13:
Wed 25 Sep
Best approximation from a finite dimensional subspace; Projections
Lecture 12:
Mon 23 Sep
Best approximation from a finite dimensional subspace
Lecture 11:
Fri 20 Sep
Best approximation from a one-dimensional subspace; Orthogonality and orthonormality
Lecture 10:
Wed 18 Sep
Inner products; Norms; Best approximation from a one-dimensional subspace
Lecture 9:
Mon 16 Sep
Linear independence; Basis and dimension; Inner products
Lecture 8:
Fri 13 Sep
Domain, codomain and range; Linear operators; Linear differential equation; Span
Lecture 7:
Wed 11 Sep
Vector spaces; Subspaces
Lecture 6:
Mon 9 Sep
Approximation to the second derivative; The finite difference method
Lecture 5:
Fri 6 Sep
Forward difference approximation to the first derivative; Backward difference approximation to the first derivative
Lecture 4:
Wed 4 Sep
Derivation of the heat equation
Lecture 3:
Fri 30 Aug
Boundary and initial conditions; Derivation of the heat equation
Lecture 2:
Wed 28 Aug
Classification of differential equations
Lecture 1:
Mon 26 Aug
Syllabus