Math/Physics 507
Spring 2008

Instructor	Peter A. Perry, 755 POT
Office	755 Patterson Office Tower
Phone	257-6791
E-Mail	perry@ms.uky.edu
Class Meetings	MWF 11:00-11:50 AM, CP 397
Office Hours	MW 3:00-4:00 and by appointment
Problem Session	W 4:00-5:00 PM Room CP 211

• Course Syllabus

Handouts:

• Midterm Review
• Final Review
• Practice Final
• Practice Final Answers

• Lecture Notes
• Fourier Series Lecture Notes
• Fourier Integral Lecture Notes (Updated 2/27/08)
• Notes on Sturm-Liouville Operators updated 4/3/08



• Worksheets
• Fourier Series, Part I (Worksheet)
• Fourier Series, Part II (Worksheet)
• The Gamma Function (Worksheet)
• Bessel Functions Revisited



• No-Fault Quizzes
• Quiz 1 (Fourier Series) and Answers
• Quiz 2 (Fourier Series) and Answers

Homework:

• Homework 1 due Friday, January 18 and its solution
• Homework 2 due Friday, January 25 and its solution
• Homework 3 due Monday, February 4 and its solution
• Homework 4 due Monday, February 11 and its solution
• Homework 5 due Monday, February 18 and its solution
• Homework 6 due Friday, February 29 and its solution
• Homework 7 due Friday, March 21 and its solution
• Homework 8 due Friday, March 28 and its solution
• Homework 9 due Wednesday, April 8 and its solution
• Homework 10 due Monday, April 21 and its solution

Interesting Web Links:

• Actors' Guild of Lexington website and tickets for Arcadia
• Chaos, Fractals, and Arcadia: A companion to Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia
• Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow by Joel Liebowitz, taken from his article in Physics Today, September 1993
• The FFT - an algorithm the whole family can use by Daniel N. Rockmore. A short, well-written review of the Fast Fourier Transform
• Mac Tutor History of Mathematics: biographies of mathematicians, history of Mathematics
• Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
• Fredrich Wilhelm Bessel
• Joseph Fourier
• Pierre-Simon Laplace
• Adrien-Marie Legendre
• Joseph Liouville
• Simeon Denis Poisson
• Jacques Charles François Sturm

• Wolfram MathWorld: Online Mathematics reference, powered by Mathematica
• The Heat Equation
• The Wave Equation
• Poisson's Equation