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Introduction to PDEs and their Applications
APMTH 202

Jointly Offered with: Faculty of Arts & Sciences as APMTH 109

Course Information

Description

This course serves as an introduction to partial differential equations (PDE) and their applications across the sciences. The course will familiarize students with the process of starting with a model, deriving the appropriate PDE, and solving it. Examples include wave equations, diffusion equations, the Laplace equation, and several nonlinear equations such as the Burgers and KdV equations. To build intuition for the analytical solutions, simple numerical simulations will be utilized.

Course Notes

The textbook for the course will be the new textbook written by Prof. Trefethen: A Course in PDEs. This course is also offered as APMTH 109. Assessments for APMTH 109: 8 problem sets + 4 in-class quizzes. Assessment for APMTH 202: 8 problem sets + 4 in-class quizzes + a 10-page project.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
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Course Component Lecture
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Science & Engineering & Applied Science
Course Level Primarily for Graduate Students