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Trinh @ Bath

Errata for the 2019-20' MA20223 materials

Typed notes

  • The Corollary 8.4 on convex sets should specify that “if every straight line (that includes a point on the interior of Ω) intersects Ω at two points at most”.
  • There were some typos in the derivation of the wave equation in Chap. 10. It should instead look like this:

  • Chap. 12 and the Definition 12.8 of the even extension on p.56 should read x[0,L] instead of x[0,π]
  • Example 15.4 should read 0<x<π instead of 0<x<2. (Courtesy DH)
  • Eqn (16.7) should have λ2 instead of λ on the equation for G. (Courtesy DH)
  • Theorem 18.3 should read the initial conditions of u(x,0)=f(x) and ut(x,0)=g(x). (Courtesy RA)

Problem sets

  • PS5: Q1 should define the thermal conductivity as k not kappa.

Solutions

  • PS3: Bottom of the first page ϕ should be ϕ
  • PS3: Index notation needs to be removed from the main solutions in 19-20' delivery since the topic has been moved to the Appendix. Students are still free to use the technique if they learn it (as noted in lectures).
  • PS4 Q4 dx and dy transposed
  • PS6 Q1. The function sin(x)exp(cos(x2)) is indeed not periodic but not for the reasons stated in the solutions. The point here is that cos(x2) is not a periodic function. You can verify this either by checking whether it's possible that (x+L)2=x2+nπ independent of x, or simply by plotting the cos(x^2)$ and observing its behaviour, particularly near the origin.
  • PS9 Q2: There is a missing factor of p on the bottom here. See Lecture 29.
  • PS9 Q4: Looks like axes were doubled here. (Courtesy RA, HC)
  • PS10 Q2: Looks like there are a few κs missing on the right hand side (I count three); Q3 In the redefinition of the energy (above “So now you are back to…”) there is a extra d/dt that should not be there.

Lectures

  • Correction to lectures 16 when I wrote “Is exp(cosx) periodic? (No)”. Oops. It is periodic. Note that exp(f(x+L))=exp(f(x)). A similar gaff appears in the solutions of PS6.

Past exams

  • 2017-18 exam Q4d. The index should start from n=1 once the 2n+1 shift is done.