Advanced Engineering Mathematics
Week
1: First Order Ordinary Differential Equations;
Separable ODEs, Exact ODE’s, Reduction to exact form, Determining integration
factors for nonexactness, Initial value problems, Linear ODE’s, Bernoulli
Equation, Homogeneous ODEs, Nonhomeogeneous ODEs, Population Dynamics, Verhulst
Equation, Picard’s existence and uniqueness theorems, Lipschitz condition
Week
2: Second
Order Linear ODE’s; Homogeneous linear ODEs,
Nonhomogeneous ODEs with second order, Reduction of order and basis,
Differential operators, Modeling Free Oscillations (Mass-Spring System-
Overdamping, Critical Damping, Under Damping), Euler-Cauchy Equations,
Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions, Wronskian, Method of Undetermined
Coefficients, Modeling Forced Oscillations (Mass-Spring System- Damped forced
oscillations, Undamped forced oscillations-resonance), Solution by Variation of
Parameters, Higher Order Linear ODEs; Homogeneous linear ODEs, Distinct real
roots, Simple complex roots, Multiple real roots, Multiple complex roots, Non-homogeneous
linear ODEs, Method of undetermined coefficients, Method of variation of parameters
Week
3: Systems
of ODEs, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Conversion of an nth order ODE to a
system, Basic theory of systems of ODEs, Constant coefficient systems and phase
plane method, Qualitative Methods, Trajectories, 5 Types of critical points of
the system (improper node, proper node, saddle point, center, spiral point),
degenerate node, Criteria for critical points, Stability (stable, unstable and
attractive and stable critical points), Qualitative methods for nonlinear
systems, Linearization of nonlinear systems, Free Undamped Pendulum and
linearization, Linearization of the damped pendulum, Non-homogeneous linear
ODEs, Method of undetermined coefficients, Method of variation of parameters
Week
4: Series
Solutions of ODEs; Power Series Method, Convergence interval, Radius of
convergence, Legendre’s Equations, Legendre Polynomials, Frobenius Method,
Bessel’s Equations, Bessel Functions,
Week
5: Bessel
functions of the second kind, Sturm-Liouville Problems, Orthogonal Functions,
Orthogonal Eigenfunction Expansions.
Week
6-7: Laplace
Transforms, inverse transform, s-shifting, transforms of derivatives and
integrals, Unit step function, t-shifting, Short impulses, Dirac’s Delta
function, Partial Fractions, Convolution, Integral Equations, Differentiation
and integration of transforms, Systems of ODEs, Laplace transform: general
formulas.
Week
8: Linear
Algebra, linear independence, rank, vector space, second and third order
determinants, inverse of a matrix, Gauss-Jordan elimination, vector spaces,
inner product spaces, linear transformations
Week
9: Matrix
eigenvalue problems, eigenvalues, eigenvector, skew-symmetric and orthogonal
matrices, eigenbases, diagonalization, quadratic forms
Week
10: Vector
differential calculus, gradient, divergence, curl of a vector field, dot
product, cross product, vector fields, directional derivatives, curves, arc length
Week
11: Vector
integral calculus, line integrals, path independence of line integrals, double
integrals, Green’s theorem in the plane, Surface integrals, Triple integrals,
Divergence theorem of Gauss, Stokes Theorem.
Week
12-13: Fourier
Series, integrals and transforms.
Week
13-14: Partial
Differential Equations, Wave Equation, D’Alembert’s Solution of the Wave
Equation, Heat equation and solution by Fourier Series, Heat equation and
solution by Fourier Ýntegrals and transforms, Rectangular membrane, Double
Fourier Series, Laplacian in Polar Coordinates, Circular Membrane,
Fourier-Bessel Series, Solution of PDEs by Laplace Transforms