Applied Partial Differential Equations

This textbook is for the standard, one-semester, junior-senior course that often goes by the title "Elementary Partial Differential Equations" or "Boundary Value Problems;' The audience usually consists of stu­ dents in mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences. The topics include derivations of some of the standard equations of mathemati­ cal physics (including the heat equation, the· wave equation, and the Laplace's equation) and methods for solving those equations on bounded and unb