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METHODS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS II

SPRING 2017

Basic information for Spring 2017

Instructor: Professor Eugene Speer
- Hill Center 520
- 848–445–7974
- speer at math.rutgers.edu
Office hours:
- Monday 1:40–3:00 PM, Hill Center 520
- Tuesday 10:20–11:40 PM, Hill Center 520
- Thursday 9:00–10:00 AM, Hill Center 520
- Or by appointment or chance in Hill Center 520
Detailed course information and policies: As web page and as a PDF file.
Homework assignments and solutions: Click here for assignments and solutions.

Final Exam

The final exam will be held Friday, May 5, 12:00–3:00 PM, in SEC 203. Please note the room change. It will cover all of our work this semester with the exception of the final week: perturbation theory of differential equations will not be on the final.

No calculators are to be used on the exam. I will try to make sure that all computations are simple.
We will have a review/problem session on Wednesday, May 3, at 10:00 AM, in Hill Center 425.
Here is the formula sheet which will be supplied with the final exam. You will also be given a copy of Appendix F of Greenberg.
I will hold my regularly scheduled office hours on Monday, 5/1, but not during the remainder of the week. I will hold supplementary office hours on Friday, May 5, 9:30–ll:00 AM, in Hill 520 (for both the classes I teach).

Announcements and supplementary information

02/22/2017: Here are notes on the calculus of variations written by Prof. Liping Liu of Rutgers. We will not follow these notes closely, but they are a good reference.
04/03/2017: Here are notes on perturbation theory written by Prof. Liping Liu of Rutgers.
04/03/2017: Here are notes on perturbation theory written by Prof. D. Gilliam of Texas Tech.
04/16/2017: Here are lecture notes on perturbation theory for the roots of polynomials.

Exam 2

The second exam will be held Tuesday, April 11. It will cover all our work on calculus of variations.

No calculators are to be used on the exam. I will try to make sure that all computations are simple.
We will have a review/problem session on Monday, April 10, 3:20–4:40 PM, in Hill 705.
Here is the formula sheet for the exam.

Exam 1

The first exam will be held Tuesday, February 28. It will cover all our work on complex variables; see the sheet for Assignment 5 for full details.

No calculators are to be used on the exam. I will try to make sure that all computations are simple.
Here is a set of review problems for the exam revised by the addition of two more formulas. Here are some short answers to these problems (not all these answers have been carefully checked).
We will have a review/problem session on Monday, February 27, 3:20–4:40 PM, in Hill 423 (our usual classroom).