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Lecture Room: GOS(08)-2300
Class Times: Tuesday & Thursday, 18:00-19:50
Required Textbook: Zill and Wright, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Fourth Edition (Jones and Bartlett, 2011). ISBN 978-0-763-77966-5
Course Webpage: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~whelan/1016-420/ (this page)
Instructor: Dr. John T. Whelan; 74-2063, 5-5083; john.whelan@astro.rit.edu or jtwsma@rit.edu
Office Hours (Tentative): TR 15:00-16:50
Course outline
Syllabus

Topics and Course Calendar

We will cover the Chapters 17, 18, 19, and part of 20 of Zill and Wright, corresponding to the following topics:

Functions of a Complex Variable
Integration in the Complex Plane
Series and Residues
Conformal Mappings

A tentative timetable is given in the Course Calendar.

Lecture Notes

In-Class Exercises

2012 November 27 [worksheet] [solutions]
2012 November 29 [worksheet] [solutions]
2012 December 13 [worksheet] [solutions]

Problem Sets

All problem sets are to be done on line at http://www.webassign.net/. Here are the due dates of the problem sets so far:

Problem Set 1 -- Due 2012 December 4
Problem Set 2 -- Due 2012 December 11
Problem Set 3 -- Due 2012 December 18
Problem Set 4 -- Due 2013 January 8
Problem Set 5 -- Due 2013 January 22
Problem Set 6 -- Due 2013 January 29
Problem Set 7 -- Due 2013 February 5
Problem Set 8 -- Due 2013 February 12

Webpage for Prior Section of 1016-420

I taught Complex Variables in Fall 2011. You may find the the associated course materials useful:

1016-420: Complex Variables (Fall 2011)
- exams (password protected)

Links

Paliouras and Meadows, Complex Variables for Scientists and Engineers, an older textbook for this course
WebAssign
Color maps of complex functions
- Real-Time Zooming Math Engine (rtzme)
- SymPy (Python)
- Visual Quantum Mechanics (Mathematica)
Pólya Vector Fields and Complex Integration along Closed Curves (Wolfram Demonstrations Project).
Python
- SciPy
  - NumPy
  - ipython
- matplotlib
- SymPy
- Enthought Python Distribution. (bundles all of the above; quite useful for Mac & Windows users)

Last Modified: 2014 January 25

Dr. John T. Whelan / john.whelan@astro.rit.edu / Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences & Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, Rochester Institute of Technology

The contents of this communication are the sole responsibility of Prof. John T. Whelan and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of RIT, SMS, or CCRG.