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| 29 Nov 2005 | Lyapunov equations; plans for next semester |
| 22 Nov 2005 | Viscous damping and optimal energy |
| 15 Nov 2005 | Viscous damping and optimal energy |
| 8 Nov 2005 | Viscous damping and optimal energy |
| 1 Nov 2005 | Measuring damping from string data; experiment |
| 25 Oct 2005 | Harmonics with optimal touch |
| 18 Oct 2005 | Eigenvalues of wave operators |
| 11 Oct 2005 | Eigenvalues of wave operators; wave experiment - Spider webs = networks of vibrating strings |
| 4 Oct 2005 | Separation of variables for the wave equation Computing eigenvalues with spectral methods - cheb01.m (from Trefethen's cheb.m) - makeAconst.m |
| 27 Sep 2005 | Spectral methods for differential equations Lloyd N. Trefethen, Spectral Methods in MATLAB, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2000 |
| 20 Sep 2005 | Finite difference solution of differential equations |
| 13 Sep 2005 | Strings in equilibrium and their perturbation Reading: Antman: Section II.8. |
| 6 Sep 2005 | Constituitive law; existence of straight equilibrium state Reading: Antman: end of Section II.2, Section II.6 |
| 30 Aug 2005 | Rigorous mathematical models of elastic strings Reading: Sections II.1, II.2 of Stuart S. Antman, Nonlinear Problems of Elasticity, Springer, New York, 1995. |
| 23 Aug 2005 | VIGRE Information Fair |