AMATH 353

Partial Differential Equations and Waves

Weston Barger
Summer 2016
Homework 4
Due: Tuesday, July 19, 2016

1. Exercise 10.2

2. Exercise 11.1

3. For the following partial differential equations, what ordinary differential equations
are implied by the method of separation of variables?
2 2
(a) ∂∂xu2 + ∂∂yu2 = ∆u = 0

(b) ∂u ∂2u ∂u
∂t = κ ∂x 2 – ν0 ∂x

(c) ∂u = κ ∂4u
∂t ∂x 4

4. Consider the differential equation

d2 u
+ λu = 0.
dx 2
Determine the eigenvalues λ (and corresponding eigenfunctions) if u satisfies the
following boundary conditions. Analyze the three cases λ > 0, λ = 0 and λ < 0. You
may assume the eigenvalues are real.

(a) u(0) = u(π) = 0

1
(b) u(0) = u(1) = 0
(c) u(a) = u(b) = 0
(d) u 0 (0) = u 0 (L) = 0