ME 681
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Course details
Course No: ME 681
Instructor: Basant Lal Sharma
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Units: (L-T-P-D-U) 3-0-0-0-4
Schedule: LEC: MWF 11:00-12:00 L6
MY CONTACT
Email: bls at iitk.ac.in
Phone: 6173
Main BookS
Books for General Reading
1. Kreyszig, E., Advanced Engineering Mathematics1 , John Wiley & Sons.
2. Courant, R., Hilbert, D., Methods of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 1, 2. John Wiley & Sons.
3. Dasgupta, B., Applied Mathematical Methods. Dorling Kindersley.
4. Simmons, G. F., Differential equations, with applications and historical notes. McGraw-Hill.
5. Jeffrey, A., Advanced Engineering Mathematics. Harcourt/Academic Press.
Books for Details
1. Halmos, P. R., Finite-dimensional vector spaces. Springer-Verlag.
2. Golub, G. H., Loan, C. F. V., Matrix computations, Johns Hopkins University Press.
3. Gel’fand, I. M., Lectures on Linear algebra. Interscience Publishers.
4. Bowen, R. M., Wang, C.-C., Introduction to vectors and tensors: I, II. Springer-Verlag.
5. Birkhoff, G. and Gian-Carlo Rota, Ordinary differential equations. Ginn.
6. Bender, C. M. and Orszag, S. A., Advanced mathematical methods for scientists and engineers,
McGraw-Hill.
7. Petrovskii, I. G., Lectures on Partial Differential Equations, Interscience Publishers.
8. Bracewell, R., The Fourier Transform and Its Applications. McGraw Hill.
9. Gelfand, I. M., Fomin, S. V., Calculus of variations. Prentice-Hall.
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Course Summary
Properties of Vector Algebra, Vector space, subspace, basis, null and
range space, invertibility and matrix representation; Cartesian Tensor
notation and vector analysis; Matrices and Matrix algebra, Echelon
form, orthogonalization; Eigen values and eigenvectors of a linear
operator; First and second order ODEs, Linear Differential equations
with constant coefficients and equi dimensional equations; Second
order linear homogenous differential equations and their
solutions; Methods of Taylor and Frobenius, Laplace and Fourier
transforms, Fourier series; Legendre and Bessel functions; Sturm
Louville Problem; classification of PDEs; Analytical solution of linear
PDEs.
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