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Differential Equations for Engineers

By Prof. Srinivas Rao Manam   |   IITM
Learners enrolled: 871   |  Exam registration: 62
ABOUT THE COURSE:
The course is to introduce the essential differential equations and their solution methods.The course is very much essential to all engineering students for its use in any kind of scientific or engineering work. The course offers them a good exposure of both ordinary and partial differential equations that arise in physical and engineering sciences.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Physical Mechanical Sciences and Engineering

PREREQUISITES: Basic Calculus
Summary
Course Status : Ongoing
Course Type : Core
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Mathematics
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 22 Jul 2024
End Date : 11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends : 05 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends : 16 Aug 2024
Exam Date : 03 Nov 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Differential Equations, Solutions of first order ODEs, Homogeneous Equations, Exact Equations.
Week 2: Solution methods for first order ODEs, Reducible to Exact Equations, Integrating factors, Linear first order ODE, Reducible to linear equations, Bernoulli’s Equation.
Week 3: Introduction to Second order ODEs' , Properties of solutions of second order homogeneous ODEs', Abel's formula to find the other linear independent solution, Abel's formula-Demonstration with examples.
Week 4: Second order ODE's with constant coefficients, Euler-Cauchy equation, Non-homogeneous ODEs-Variation of parameters, Method of undetermined coefficients, Demonstration of Method of undetermined coefficients
Week 5: Power series and its properties, Power series method to solve second order linear homogeneous ODEs, Legendre Equation, Properties of Legendre polynomials.
Week 6: Classification of Singular points, Solution around a regular singular point- Frebeneous Method, Bessel Equation and properties of Bessel functions.
Week 7: Sturm-Liouville theory, Finding Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions, Generalised Fourier series.
Week 8: Introduction to second order Linear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), Classification of nd order linear PDEs, Solutions by the method of classification.
Week 9: One-dimensional Wave Equation, D’Alembert’s solution, Solution of wave equation in semi-infinte domains, Uniqueness by the energy argument, non-homogeneous wave equation and its solution.
Week 10: Separation of variable method for -dim wave equation over a finite domain, Vibration of a finite string, Two-Dimensional Wave equation, Vibration of a drum.
Week 11: One-dimensional Heat equation, Temperature distributions in an infinite, semi-infinite and finite rods, Uniqueness of solutions, Solution of a Heat equation with external source
Week 12: Steady-State Heat Equation, Solutions of the Laplace equation in rectangular domains, Solution of the Laplace equation in circular domains.

Instructor bio

Prof. Srinivas Rao Manam

IITM
Prof. Srinivas Rao Manam is working as an associate professor at Departament of Mathematics, IIT Madras. He works in the area of differential equations arise in physical and engineering sciences.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 
03 November 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup .It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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