MATH 406: Complex Variable Techniques

Lectures   -   Spring 2009

Week Lectures Kreyszig Topics covered
1 1-3 13.1 - 13.3 Introducing complex numbers; New operations - complex conjugate, modulus,
Re and Im; Polar form; Arg; Roots; De Moivre; Domains, functions.
2 4-5 13.3, 13.4 Derivatives, analytic, Cauchy-Riemann; harmonic functions, harmonic conjugate.
3 6-7 13.4 - 13.7 More on harmonic conjugates; Exponential function, fundamental region;
sin(z) and cos(z); Euler's formula; hyperbolic trig fns; Logarithm - ln(z) and Ln(z).
4 8-10 13.7, 14.1, 14.2 More on logs, Principal value, branch cut; derivative of Ln(z); roots done with logs.
Line integrals in the complex plane; simple, oriented curves; parameterized curves;
Cauchy's Integral Theorem, piecewise smooth paths, path independence; ML inequality.
5 11-13 14.2 - 14.4 Path independence; Principle of Path Deformation, multiply-connected paths;
Cauchy Integral Formula, singularities; application to evaluating integrals;
More on path manipulation; Integrals around multiple singularities.
6 14-15 17.1 Review; MIDTERM 1; Intro to Conformal Mapping; mapping curves.
7 16-18 14.4, 17.1 ML and Cauchy inequalities; Liouville's Theorem; Morera's Thm;
conformal maps, angle-preserving property; Simple maps; composition of maps.
8 19-21 17.1 - 17.3 Zhukovsky map; mapping of curves; magnification, connection to Jacobian;
Fractional Linear Transform (Mobius map); Lines & Circles Thm; Fixed Pt Thm,
3 Pt Thm; Fractional Calculus, Gamma function.
- - - SPRING BREAK
9 22-23 17.4, (17.5), 18.1 Mapping with trig fns; (Riemann surfaces); Applications to electrostatic potential probs;
parallel plates, coaxial cylinders, wedges; solns to Laplace's eq.
10 24-26 18.1, 18.2, 18.4 More on electrostatic problems; Mapping solutions with conformal maps;
Orthogonality of isolines; Review of Mobius maps and Lines/Circles Thm;
Applications to incompressible/irrotational fluid flow.
11 27-29 18.4, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1 2D fluid flow problems, velocity potential and streamfunctions; streamlines;
complex potential, complex velocity; flow past a cylinder; stagnation pts.
Taylor Series for analytic fns; Taylor's Thm, Maclaurin series; Radius of convergence,
uniqueness; Singularities, Laurent's Thm.
12 30-31 15.4, 16.1 Review for midterm; MIDTERM 2; Review of power series; Laurent series.
13 32-34 16.1, 16.2, 15.3 Laurent's Thm, convergence in an annulus, punctured disk around singularity; uniqueness;
How to find Laurent series; Isolated singularities: poles, essential; Principal part of L series;
Poles to Zeroes Thm. Review series termwise manipulation.
14 35-37 16.2, 16.3 Review singularities, developing Laurent series; Riemann sphere, analytic pt at infinity.
Residue Method; definition, Residue Thm; Formulas.
15 38-40 16.3, 16.4 Pole vs residue; Formulas for simple poles, pole order m; p/q Thm;
residue integration of real integrals: improper integrals, trig integrals.




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