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Fourier Series and Partial Differential Equations Lecture Notes

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CONTENTS 3<br />

3.7 Other boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />

4 The wave equation 33<br />

4.1 Derivation in one space dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

4.2 Units <strong>and</strong> nondimensionalisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

4.3 Normal modes of vibration for a finite string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />

4.4 Initial-<strong>and</strong>-boundary value problems for finite strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />

4.4.1 Application of <strong>Fourier</strong> series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

4.5 Normal modes for a weighted string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br />

4.6 The general solution of the wave equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />

4.7 Uniqueness of an IBVP for a finite string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />

4.8 Waves on infinite strings: D’Alembert’s formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45<br />

4.8.1 Characteristic diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46<br />

5 Laplace’s equation in the plane 48<br />

5.1 BVP in cartesian coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48<br />

5.2 BVP in polar coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />

5.2.1 Application of <strong>Fourier</strong> series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />

5.2.2 Poisson’s formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />

5.3 Uniqueness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />

5.3.1 Uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />

5.3.2 Uniqueness for the Neumann problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br />

5.4 Well-posedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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