Instructor: Stephen Brill
Office: MB (Mathematics Building) 218-A
Phone: (208) 426-3122
Fax: (208) 426-1356
Email: sbrill@boisestate.edu
Class meetings: 0900 to 1015, Wednesday and Friday in room MB 139.
Textbook: Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers, by Stanley J. Farlow.
Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1030. Wednesdays at 1200. Other times by appointment.
Academic Honesty and appropriate behavior: All students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to the policies and standards given in the BSU Student Code of Conduct.
Cell phones, paging devices, etc.: Please turn off or silence your devices during class time.
Late work and/or extensions: If you seek an extension on an assignment and the request occurs after the due date or time, your request will be summarily denied (except in the most extraordinary circumstances). Such requests that occur before the due date and time will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Contesting grades: If you think I have graded you unfairly on a particular assignment, you must bring this to my attention within a week from the time that the assignment was returned to the class. After a week I will not consider any requests to review and possibly change my grading.
Learning outcomes: At the end of the semester, the student will be able to solve PDEs using a variety of approaches, including separation of varibles and transform methods.
Grading policy: Your grade will be determined by your performance in three areas:
Homework (50%). Graded homework will be assigned regularly. While I encourage you to work with other class members on the homewok assignments, each student must hand in his/her own paper. Homework is always due at the start of class. At the end of the semester, the lowest homework score for each student will be "dropped".
Take-Home Midterm Exam (20%). Due 6 March at 2359.
Your grade will be computed via the following algorithm. Let x be the number of points accumulated throughout the semester (between 0 and 100):
A+: x > 97
A: 93 < x < 97
A-: 90 < x < 93
B+: 87 < x < 90
B: 83 < x < 87
B-: 80 < x < 83
C+: 77 < x < 80
C: 73 < x < 77
C-: 70 < x < 73
D: 60 < x < 70
F: x < 60
This page was most recently updated on 28 April 2022.