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1. First Order Equations. |
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Notation and Terminology. |
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The Linear First Order Equation. |
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The Significance of Characteristics. |
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The Quasi-Linear Equation. |
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2. Linear Second Order Equations. |
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The Hyperbolic Canonical Form. |
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The Parabolic Canonical Form. |
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The Elliptic Canonical Form. |
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Some Equations of Mathematical Physics. |
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The Second Order Cauchy Problem. |
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Characteristics and the Cauchy Problem. |
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Characteristics As Carriers of Discontinuities. |
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3. Elements of Fourier Analysis. |
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The Fourier Series of a Function. |
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Convergence of Fourier Series. |
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Sine and Cosine Expansions. |
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Fourier Sine and Cosine Transforms. |
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The Cauchy Problem and d'Alembert's Solution. |
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d'Alembert's Solution As a Sum of Waves. |
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The Characteristic Triangle. |
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The Wave Equation on a Half-Line. |
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A Problem on a Half-Line With Moving End. |
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A Nonhomogeneous Problem on the Real Line. |
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A General Problem on a Closed Interval. |
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Fourier Series Solutions on a Closed Interval. |
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A Nonhomogeneous Problem on a Closed Interval. |
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The Cauchy Problem by Fourier Integral. |
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A Wave Equation in Two Space Dimensions. |
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The Kirchhoff/Poisson Solution. |
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Hadamard's Method of Descent. |
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The Cauchy Problem and Initial Conditions. |
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The Weak Maximum Principle. |
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Solutions on Bounded Intervals. |
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The Heat Equation on the Real Line. |
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The Heat Equation on the Half-Line. |
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The Debate Over the Age of the Earth. |
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The Nonhomogeneous Heat Equation. |
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The Heat Equation In Several Space Variables. |
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6. Dirichlet and Neumann Problems. |
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The Setting of the Problems. |
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Two Properties of Harmonic Functions. |
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Is the Dirichlet Problem Well-Posed? |
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Dirichlet Problem for a Rectangle. |
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A Classical Existence Theorem. |
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A Hilbert Space Approach. |
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Distributions and an Existence Theorem. |
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Solutions by Eigenfunction Expansions. |
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Numerical Approximations of Solutions. |
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Answers to Selected Exercises. |
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