Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: METHODS OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

Department: *Computational & Applied Math*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): CAAM 402 AND CAAM 436 or permission of instructor

Description: Analysis of the solutions of the partial differential equations of continuum physics. First order linear and non-linear PDE's and systems of PDE's, characteristics, shocks. Sturm-Liouville problems and Fourier series. Integral transforms: Fourier and Laplace. Integral relations and Green's functions. Asymptotic methods: regular perturbation methods, singular perturbations, geometric optics. CAAM 402 may be taken concurrently.