Note: Any student with a disability requiring
accommodation in this class is encouraged to contact
me after class or during office hours. Additionally , students should contact the
Disabled Student Services
office in the Ley Student Center.
Homework: Homework will be assigned every week on Tuesday (with the
exception of the first week)
and due the following Tuesday in class. Homework is not pledged. You may get
help from any source.
However you are strongly encouraged to attempt the problems yourself before
seeking assistance. Any
written work submitted must be your own. Your submitted work must be stapled
together and should
have your name on every page. I will accept homeworks dropped off at my office
before 1PM on the day
it is due, after that homework will be late. Late homeworks will not be accepted
for credit.
Tests: There will be two midterm exams and a final exam. The tests will
be closed book. Calculators
will not be allowed. The dates for the two midterms are: October 4th and
November 8th. The exams will
be held during the 8:00-9:15 AM time period. The rooms for the exams will be
announced in class.
Project: Topics for the project will be discussed later in the term. The
project itself will be due on
the day of the final exam.
Grades: Grades will be computed as follows: Homework: 25 % (the lowest
homework score will be
dropped), Midterms 30%, Project 10%, Final Exam 35%.
Help Sessions: Mondays 7-9pm in TBA.
Final Exam Policy: It is the policy of the mathematics department that no
final may be given early
to accomodate student travel plans. We will not know when the final in this
course will be scheduled for
some time. Therefore, if you should make plans to travel before the end of final
exam period, and it turns
out that the final for this course is after your scheduled departure date, you
will have to choose between
keeping your plans and receiving zero for the final , or incurring the costs for
changing your plans and
taking the final at its scheduled time. Thanks for your understanding.
Note: Any student with a documented disability seeking academic
adjustments or accommodations is
requested to speak with me during the first two weeks of class. All discussions
will remain as confidential
as possible. Students with disabilities will need to also contact Disability
Support Services in the Ley
Student Center.
2. Schedule
Very rough course schedule, subject to later adjustments:
• Tue, Aug 28 sect. 2.1 and 2.2 Introduction
• Thurs Aug 30 sect. 2.3 and 2.4 Models of motion and Linear Equations
• Tue Sep 4 sect. 2.5 Mixing problems and word problems
• Thurs Sep 6 sect. 2.6 Exact Differential Equations
• Tue Sep 11 sect. 2.7 Existence and Uniqueness of solutions
• Thurs Sep 13 sect. 2.9 Autonomous equations and Stability
• Tue Sep 18 sect. 3.1 and 3.3 Modeling population growth and Personal Finance
• Thurs Sep 20 sect. 4.1 and 4.2 Second- order equations and systems
• Tue Sep 25 sect. 4.3 and 4.4 Linear homogeneous equations and harmonic motion
• Thurs Sep 27 sect. 4.5 and 4.6 Inhomogeneous equations and variation of
parameters
• Tue Oct 2 sect. 4.7 Forced harmonic motion + Review
• Thurs Oct 4 First Midterm
• Thurs Oct 4 sect. 5.1 and 5.2 Basic properties of the Laplace transform
• Tue Oct 9 sect. 5.3 and 5.4 Inverse Laplance transform with applications
• Thurs Oct 11 sect. 5.5 and 5.6 Discontinuous forcing terms and the delta
function
• Tue Oct 16 Recess break
• Thurs Oct 18 sect. 5.7 Convolutions
• Tue Oct 23 sect. Intro to Linear Algebra
• Thurs Oct 25 Linear Algebra
• Tue Oct 30 Linear Algebra
• Thurs Nov 1 Linear Algebra
• Tue Nov 6 Linear Algebra
• Thurs Nov 8 Second Midterm
• Thurs Nov 8 sect. 8.1,8.2 and 8.3 Geometric interpretation and qualitative
analysis
• Tue Nov 13 sect. 8.4 and 8.5 Properties of linear systems
• Thurs Nov 15 sect. 9.1 and 9.2 Planar systems
• Tue Nov 20 sect. 9.5 and 9.7 Higher dimensional systems and qualitative
analysis
• Thurs Nov 22 Thanksgiving
• Tue Nov 27 sect. 9.6 Exponential of a matrix
• Thurs Nov 29 sect. 9.8 and 9.9 Higher order and inhomogeneous linear systems
• Tue Dec 4 TBA
• Thurs Dec 6 Review
