120B Applied Complex Analysis
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Here is a partial list of topics covered this quarter:

Finding residues and using the residue theorem

bulletClassifying Singular Points and more residue calculations
bulletResidue Calculations and Residue Theorem
bulletResidues and Poles
bulletClassification of Zeros and Poles
bulletIntegrating ratios of polynomials
bulletFourier Integrals
bulletIntegrating ratios of trignometric polynomials
bulletIntegration involving Branch cuts   (will not be on the final.)

Applications of the residue theorem

bulletArgument Principal and Rouche's theorem
bulletOpen mapping principle.
bulletInverse Laplace Transforms

Properties of analytic and harmonic functions

bulletPrinciple of analytic continuation.
bulletOpen mapping principle for analytic functions.
bulletMaximum Modulus Principle for analytic functions
bulletThe Maximum and Minimum principle for harmonic functions.
bulletUniqueness of the Dirichlet problem for harmonic functions on bounded domains.

Conformal Transformations

bulletConformal Mapping Properties of basic analytic functions
bulletMappings involving 1/z
bulletFractional Linear Transformations
bulletConformal Maps and Inverse Functions
bulletMapping Properties of functions involving e^z. 
bulletMapping properties of z --> z^2 .

Harmonic functions, the Dirichlet problem and simple fluid flow

bulletFinding Harmonic Conjugates (knowing they exist on simply connected domains.)
bulletLaplacian under conformal change of variables and in particular know that conformal change of variables preserves harmonic functions.
bulletSteady state temperature problems.
bulletElectrostatic potentials in 2-dimensions
bullet2D-static irrotational & incompressible fluid flow
bulletHow to solve the Dirichlet problem on the disk with polynomial boundary data.