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General Information:
MATH 2410 covers material mainly from chapters 1-5 of the textbook.
All classes start in ACD 206.
Textbooks:
Required:
Elementary Differential Equations by William F. Trench.
It is an open source textbook available free online here
Homework Policy: Homework is assigned every class and collected every Thursday. They are
returned the following Tuesday with remarks and graded.
The total weight of the homework grades is
50 point of the total 500 course points.
Exam
Schedule:
Exam 1: Tuesday, February 9
, 2:00 - 3:15p.m., Room: ACD 206
Exam 3: Tuesday, April 11
, 2:00 - 3:15p.m., Room: ACD 206
Final Exam: Tuesday, May 2, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Room: ACD 206
Grading
Policy:
Homework: 50, Exam 1: 100, Exam 2: 100, Exam 3: 100, Final Exam: 150.
Internet Resourses:
Slope Field Generator
Series of videos by G. Strang and C. Moler
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| Date | Chapter | Topic | Homework | |
| Week 1 | Tues. 1/17 | 1.1 | Applications leading to differential equations | |
| Thur. 1/19 | 1.2 | Basic concepts | Ch. 1.2: Exercises 1,2,4(a-d),5,7,9 | |
| Week 2 | Tues. 1/24 | 1.3 | Direction fields for first order ODEs | Ch. 1.3: Exercises 1,2,3,4,5,12,13,14,15 |
| Thur. 1/26 | 2.1 | Linear first order equations | Ch. 2.1 Exercises: 4,5,6,9,16,18,20,21 | |
| Week 3 | Tues. 1/31 | 2.2 | Separable equations | Ch. 2.2 Exercises: 1,3,4,6,11,12,17,18 |
| Thur. 2/2 | 2.3 | Existence and uniqueness of solutions | Ch. 2.3 Exercises: 1,2,3,4,14,16,17,20 | |
| Week 4 | Tues. 2/7 | Practice Exam 1 Practice Exam 1. Solutions |
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| Thur. 2/9 | Snow Day! | |||
| Week 5 | Tues. 2/14 | Exam 1 | ||
| Thur. 2/16 | 3.1 | Euler's Method. | Ch. 3.1 Exercises: 1,4,6,14 | |
| Week 6 | Tues. 2/21 | 4.1 | Growth and decay | Ch. 4.1 Exercises: 2,3,5,11 |
| Thur. 2/23 | 4.2-4.3 | Cooling, mixing and elementary mechanics | Ch. 4.2 Exercises: 2,3,5,12 Ch. 4.3 Exercises:4,10 |
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| Week 7 | Tues. 2/28 | 4.4 | Autonomous second order equations | Ch. 4.4 Exercises: |
| Thur. 3/2 | 4.5 | Applications to curves | Ch. 4.5 Exercises: | |
| Week 8 | Tues. 3/7 | Review. Practice Exam 2 Practice Exam 2. Solutions |
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| Thur. 3/9 | Exam 2 | |||
| Week 9 | Tues. 3/14 | Spring recess | ||
| Thur. 3/16 | Spring recess | |||
| Week 10 | Tues. 3/21 | 5.1 | Homogeneous linear equations | Ch. 5.1 Exercises: |
| Thur. 3/23 | 5.2 | Constant coefficient homogeneous equations | Ch. 5.2 Exercises: | |
| Week 11 | Tues. 3/28 | 5.3 | Nonhomogeneous linear equations | Ch. 5.3 Exercises: |
| Thur. 3/30 | 5.4 | The method of underterminate coefficients 1 | Ch. 5.4 Exercises: | |
| Week 12 | Tues. 4/4 | 5.5 | The method of underterminate coefficients 2 | Ch. 5.5 Assignment 4 |
| Week 12 | Thur. 4/6 | 6.1-6.2 | Spring problems | Ch. 6.1 |
| Week 12 | Tues. 4/11 | Review. Practice Exam 3 Practice Exam 3. Solutions |
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| Thur. 4/13 | Exam 3 | |||
| Week 14 | Tues. 4/18 | 8.1-8.2 | Laplace Transforms. Inverse transforms | Ch. 8.1-8.2 Assignment 5 |
| Thur. 4/20 | 8.3-8.4 | Solutions to initial value problem | Ch. 8.3 Exercises: Ch. 8.4 Exercises: |
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| Week 15 | Tues. 4/25 | 8.5 | Constant coefficient equations with piecewise continuous forcing functions | Ch. 8.5 Exercises: |
| Thur. 4/27 | Review. Practice Final Exam Practice Final Exam. Solutions |
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| Week 16 | Tues. 5/2 | Final Exam, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. |
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