Faculty: M. Shillor
Office: 554 SEB
Phone: 370-3439
email: shillor@oakland.edu
Class Time: MW 7:30-9:17 pm
Room: 542 SEB
Section: 45104
September 14 - Last day for no-grade drop
November 2 - Last day for official withdrawal (W)
December 6 - Last day of classes
Permission of the Instructor.
Various
Monday and Wednesday 3:30--5:00 PM. Students who are unable to make the announced hours may make individual appointments.
There will be no exams, but three projects. Two will entail oral presentation.
The grading scale in this course is:
Homework will be assigned on a regular basis, but will not be collected. In order to do well on the tests you must do the homework assignments on a regular basis. At least two hours should be spent on homework for each hour of lecture in class. The homework assignments represent the minimum amount of mental exercise necessary to learn the material; students having difficulties with any particular topic should do more than just the assigned problems. In addition to doing the homework, you should keep on top of the subject by regularly reviewing earlier material, asking questions in class, and making use of office hours.
Success in this course requires an atmosphere conducive to learning. As a courtesy to your fellow students and instructor, please come to class on time and refrain from extraneous conversation during class. All electronic communication devices such as portable stereos, walkmans, pagers, beepers, phones, etc. must be turned off prior to entering classroom. If circumstances make it necessary for you to leave early, please notify the instructor in advance and sit near the door. Otherwise, come prepared to stay for the entire class.
For this course, a graphing calculator is strongly recommended. You may use a calculator (but not a computer) on all tests and homework assignments. Tests will be constructed assuming only that you have a calculator with logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric functions as well as memory storage. No matter what kind of calculator you have, it is important to learn to use it effectively. In particular, know how to do long calculations without writing down intermediate answers, and be aware of how many digits of accuracy you can expect an answer to have. To receive full credit on tests, be sure to show all the mathematical work necessary for setting up a calculation before using the calculator. Try to use your calculator imaginatively, too; for example, calculators often provide you with ways to verify an answer (e.g. by graphing with a graphing calculator,or plugging in particular values of variables). Using a calculator to store formulas you need for a test is not permitted.
Computer laboratories are not a formal part of this course. However, there are some excellent "computer algebra" packages such as Mathematica and Maple available on desktop and remote computers; this software is capable of performing many of the calculations that one does in a course such as this (e.g., solving algebraic equations, simplifying complicated algebraic expressions, differentiating, integrating, and drawing graphs).Interested students should talk to their instructor about obtaining access to such systems and experiment with them.
If the University is closed at the time of a scheduled test, quiz, or examination (for example, because of snow), it will be given during the next class period when the University reopens. The Oakland University emergency closing number is 370-2000.
Cheating is a serious academic crime. Oakland University policy requires that all suspected instances of cheating be reported to the Academic Conduct Committee for adjudication. Anyone found guilty of cheating in this course will receive a course grade of 0.0, in addition to any penalty assigned by the Academic Conduct Committee. Working with others on a homework assignment does not constitute cheating; handing in an assignment that has essentially been copied from someone else does. Receiving help from someone else or from unauthorized written material during a quiz, test, or final exam is cheating, as is using a calculator as an electronic "cribsheet."
If you got thus far, you obviously have them.
We will follow the schedule below.
Week of --- Topics
August 30 --- Conservation of Mass
– the continuity equation;
Conservation of Momentum – the equations of motion;
Conservation of Energy – the heat equation.
How to derive general equations to
model phenomena.
Initial and boundary conditions.Weak formulations of the
problems.
September 6 --- The heat equation, a model problem with initial and boundary conditions
September 13 --- Melting or solidification, thermistors
September 20 --- Spot welding, electropainting, diffusion, diffusion models in biology
September
26 --- Rods, beams, contact, friction, adhesion;
October 25 --- Three-dimensional elasticity, viscoelasticity, and viscoplasticity.
November 1 --- Contact problems with friction, adhesion, and wear
November 8 --- Contact problems - contd
November 15 --- Contact problems – contd: SECOND PROJECT DUE
November 22 --- The Navier-Stokes equations, Maxwell’s equations
(short);no
class on Wednesday
November 29 --- There will be no classes.
December 6 --- Last class! – Review; FINAL PROJECT DUE
GOOD LUCK AND BE WELL!