Math 40750 - Partial Differential Equations, Spring Semester 2007
http://www.nd.edu/~b1hu/math40750-07S/index.html

Textbook: "Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction" by Walter A Strauss, 1992, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, ISBN 0-471-54868-5.

Syllabus: We will cover selected materials from Chapters 1 through 13.

Class (MWF) Instructor Email Office hours
12:50 pm -1:40pm DBRT 217 Hu (HAYE 146, 1-5352) Hu.1@nd.edu By appointments

Exams:

Test 1 Monday, Feb 12 in class 100 points
Test 2 Wednesday, March 21 in class 100 points
Project Due April 30 in class 25 points
Final Monday, May 7, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:15 pm 125 points
Homeworks 75 points
Quizzes25 points
Cutoffs for major grades (A, B, C, D, F) will be assigned for each exam and announced in class so students have some indication of their level of performance. Your final grade will be assigned on the basis of your total score out of 450. Test 1 cutoff: A>93, A->90, B+>87, B>83, B->80, C+>77, C>73, C->70. Test 2 cutoff: A>86, A->83, B+>80, B>77, B->74, C+>71, C>68, C->65.

Projects: The projects must be done by a group of students, with a minmum of 2 and maximum of 4 from this course. They are due on April 30 with a 10 to 25 minutes presentation from the group during the last two lectures. Everyone in the group must use a minimum of 5 minutes to present a portion of the projects in class.

Missed exams: Note that there will be two Midterm Exams and a Final Exam. A student who misses an examination will receive zero points for that exam unless he or she has written permission from the Vice president for residential life. If you have a valid excuse (illness, excused athletic absence etc) for missing an exam, please see me ASAP (preferably before the exam) and a makeup exam will be scheduled.

Exam conflicts: The exam conflicts are governed by Academic code. According to Section 14.2, students with 3 or more finals in one day, or 4 or more finals in a 24 hour period, may negotiate to change the time of one of these finals. If you intend to request to have the time of your Math 40750 final changed, you must talk to your instructor by April 13.

Honor Code: Both examinations and homework are conducted under the honor code. While discussion in small groups in doing homework is permitted (and strongly encouraged) in this course, the work should be your own. Exams are closed book and are to be done completely by yourself with no help from others.

Homeworks: Homework problems will be assigned during class meetings and will be collected once a week on each Wednesday. The main purpose of the homework is to help you learn the material. Experience shows that students who take their homework seriously do very well in the course because they have a better understanding of the material.
1). For unexcused late homework, there will be a 10% penalty for each week that is late. Therefore, a homework that is two weeks late will receive 80% of the credit.
2). A homework that is more than 4 weeks late, or handed in after the last day of class, will receive no credit.