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Differential Equations
Engineering & Social Sciences Program
Madrid, Spain
Dates: early Sep 2025 - mid Dec 2025
Differential Equations
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Mathematics
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 15537
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Calculus I & II, Linear Algebra
DESCRIPTION
1. Differential equations of first order.
1.1. Definitions and examples.
1.2. Elementary methods of resolution.
1.3. Applications.
2. Higher order differential equations.
2.1. Linear differential equations of order n with constant coefficients.
2.2. Equations with variable coefficients: order reduction and equidimensional equations.
2.3. Relation between systems and linear equations.
3. Laplace transform.
3.1. Definition and properties.
3.2. Transforming and back-transforming.
3.3. Application to the resolution of linear equations and systems.
4. Method of separation of variables.
4.1. Initial and boundary problems. Examples of PDEs from Mathematical Physics.
4.2. Different kinds of equations and data.
4.3. Odd, even and periodic extensions of a function. Trigonometric Fourier series.
4.4. Resolution of equations by separation of variables and Fourier series.
4.5. Complex form of Fourier series.
5. Sturm-Liouville problems.
5.1. Self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville problems.
5.2. Rayleigh's quotient. Minimization theorem.
5.3. Resolution of equations by separation of variables and generalized Fourier series.
5.4. Sturm-Liouville problems in several variables.
1.1. Definitions and examples.
1.2. Elementary methods of resolution.
1.3. Applications.
2. Higher order differential equations.
2.1. Linear differential equations of order n with constant coefficients.
2.2. Equations with variable coefficients: order reduction and equidimensional equations.
2.3. Relation between systems and linear equations.
3. Laplace transform.
3.1. Definition and properties.
3.2. Transforming and back-transforming.
3.3. Application to the resolution of linear equations and systems.
4. Method of separation of variables.
4.1. Initial and boundary problems. Examples of PDEs from Mathematical Physics.
4.2. Different kinds of equations and data.
4.3. Odd, even and periodic extensions of a function. Trigonometric Fourier series.
4.4. Resolution of equations by separation of variables and Fourier series.
4.5. Complex form of Fourier series.
5. Sturm-Liouville problems.
5.1. Self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville problems.
5.2. Rayleigh's quotient. Minimization theorem.
5.3. Resolution of equations by separation of variables and generalized Fourier series.
5.4. Sturm-Liouville problems in several variables.