From hajjar@mail.utexas.edu Sun Feb 21 00:41:32 CST 1999 Article: 237003 of sci.math Path: news.math.niu.edu!husk.cso.niu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: "Rani Fayez El-Hajjar" Newsgroups: sci.engr.civil,sci.math Subject: Re: Diff Eqs and CE Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:45:14 -0600 Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 42 Message-ID: <7ans4i$a12$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <36CE19E7.9FAE2E51@math.siu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-92-4.ots.utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Xref: news.math.niu.edu sci.engr.civil:34046 sci.math:237003 Dr. Sullivan, Differential equations has many important applications in Civil Engineering. In structural engineering, the load at which an elastic column buckles is given by the Euler's Equation which is found by solving a differential equation. Also the stability of frames and the loads which they can support can be solved by setting up the relevant differential equations and find their solutions. Most of these equations are linear homogenous and non-homogeneous equations. Rani ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Rani El-Hajjar Office: ECJ 4.710 Department of Civil Engineering University of Texas-Austin E-mail: hajjar@mail.utexas.edu WWW: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/stu/elhajjrf Mike Sullivan wrote in message <36CE19E7.9FAE2E51@math.siu.edu>... >I am teaching a sophomore/junior level diff eq course. I know that EE >and ME students will >use this stuff in their other courses (and maybe even on the job) and >the text has many examples >relevant to these fields. But I have many CE students and neither I nor >they have any idea what they >will use this stuff for. Does anyone have any good examples I could use >in class, or opinions as to >weather CEs need this much math. > >Prof. Mike Sullivan >Math Dept., SIU-Carbondale >msulliva @ math . siu . edu >(please re-type e-mail address) >