MATH365-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012

Applications of Complex Variables

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 9 July 2012
End Date: Sunday, 11 November 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 20 July 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 5 October 2012

Description

Applications of complex variable theory in the physical and engineering sciences. Contour integration. Conformal mappings.

Complex variables with applications and special functions are essential tools for pure and applied mathematicians, scientists and engineers.
The material covered is a mix beautiful theory (e.g. Taylors theorem for functions of a complex variable),  applications and computational techniques (e.g. calculation of Laplace transforms via contour integration).

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of the course the student will be familiar with the following topics:
     - complex numbers and functions of a complex variable
     - analytic functions and the Cauchy-Riemann equations
     - cauchy's theorem.  Taylor and Laurent series.  Singularities

  • Students will be able to evaluate definite integrals and  calculate Laplace transforms using the calculus of residues

  • Students will also be familiar with:
     - conformal mappings and applications to electrostatics, heat and fluid flow
     - legendre polynomials, properties of these, and applications to sphere in a  uniform electric field, potential of a ring of charge

    Alternatively students will be familiar with the properties and applications of another family of special functions.

Prerequisites

MATH264, EMTH204, (MATH261 and MATH262), EMTH202, MATH243, MATH202 or MATH240; or, a high level of achievement in EMTH210 with Head of School approval.

Restrictions

MATH342

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Rick Beatson

Lecturer

Huy-Qui Bui

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Internal Assessment - TBA 40%
Final Examination 60%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended reading (any of the following):

• James Ward Brown & Ruel V. Churchill, Complex variables and Applications, 8th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2009.
• Erwin Kreyszig, Advanced engineering mathematics, 8th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1999 (or other edition).
• Jerrold E. Marsden & Michael J. Ho man, Basic complex analysis, 2nd ed., W.H. Freeman & Co, New York, 1987.

Course links

MATH365 Homepage

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $622.00

International fee $3,200.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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