MA 207 Differential Equations 2

Course Instructor :Swapneel Mahajan

Course Name:Differential Equations 2

Course Type:Core(Theory)

Credits:4

Pre-requisites: MA108 (Informal)

Course Content: Power series and frobenius methods of solving linear ODEs, Legendre equation and properties of its solutions, Bessel equation and properties of its solutions, fourier series, Heat equation and wave equations in 1 and 2 dimensions ( polar and cartesian coordinates for the latter), laplace equation, eigenvalues and eigen functions of the laplacian operator on the unit sphere.

Books: Elementary Differential Equations - Rainville and Bedient, and the lecture notes were also a book by themselves

Lectures:No compulsory attendance. Lectures were rather lackluster in the first half (except for the puzzle Prof. Swapneel would present at the end of every class). Even though it might seem incredibly boring, it's best to slog through the first half of the course, as the course content gets a lot more interesting in the second half and requires much of the content covered in the first.

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Assignments: Tutorials were ungraded and moderately difficult. Tutorial attendance was compulsory. Solving the tutorials is especially important in this course to develop an intuition for what is taught, otherwise it's all going to seem like a bunch of random facts you have to remember.

Exams and Grading:One quiz and one endsem, both objective with lots of questions and too little time. Induces JEE Advanced PTSD in the faint of heart.

Pro-tips:A lot of people find the professor's style of narration off putting. Don't let this scare you away from paying attention though, as the content is important (in the first half) and very interesting (in the second). Solve as many tutorial problems as you can, it helps in building intuition and will also save those precious seconds in the endsem.

Respondent: Sahas Kamat