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Homework 4: AMATH 353 Partial Differential Equations and Waves Weston Barger Summer 2016

This document is the homework assignment for AMATH 353: Partial Differential Equations and Waves taught by Professor Weston Barger during the summer of 2016. The homework is due on July 19th and contains 4 problems: 1) exercises 10.2 and 11.1 from the textbook, 2) determining the ordinary differential equations implied by the method of separation of variables for three given partial differential equations, and 3) analyzing the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a given differential equation under different boundary conditions.

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Homework 4: AMATH 353 Partial Differential Equations and Waves Weston Barger Summer 2016

This document is the homework assignment for AMATH 353: Partial Differential Equations and Waves taught by Professor Weston Barger during the summer of 2016. The homework is due on July 19th and contains 4 problems: 1) exercises 10.2 and 11.1 from the textbook, 2) determining the ordinary differential equations implied by the method of separation of variables for three given partial differential equations, and 3) analyzing the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a given differential equation under different boundary conditions.

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AMATH 353

Partial Differential Equations and Waves


Weston Barger
Summer 2016
Homework 4
Due: Tuesday, July 19, 2016

1. Exercise 10.2

2. Exercise 11.1

3. For the following partial differential equations, what ordinary differential equations
are implied by the method of separation of variables?
2 2
(a) ∂∂xu2 + ∂∂yu2 = ∆u = 0

(b) ∂u ∂2u ∂u
∂t = κ ∂x 2 – ν0 ∂x

(c) ∂u = κ ∂4u
∂t ∂x 4

4. Consider the differential equation

d2 u
+ λu = 0.
dx 2
Determine the eigenvalues λ (and corresponding eigenfunctions) if u satisfies the
following boundary conditions. Analyze the three cases λ > 0, λ = 0 and λ < 0. You
may assume the eigenvalues are real.

(a) u(0) = u(π) = 0

1
(b) u(0) = u(1) = 0
(c) u(a) = u(b) = 0
(d) u 0 (0) = u 0 (L) = 0

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