Syllabus for Differential Equations

Spring 2001

Course Information

Instructor:: Eric Olson
email:: ejolson at unr.edu
Office:: Ansari Business Building AB614
Homepage:: http://fractal.math.unr.edu/~ejolson/285/
Text:: Boyce and Diprima, Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, Seventh Edition, 2001, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Section:: 003 Math 285 Differential Equations; TR 9:30-10:45 Fleischmann Greenhouse SEM347

Grading

    2 Quizzes                       25 points each
   10 Homework Assignments           5 points each
    1 Midterm Exam                 100 points
    1 Final Exam                   100 points
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                                   300 points total

Calendar

#   Date     Chapter     Topic
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1   Jan 23     2.1       Linear Equations
2   Jan 25     2.2       Separable Equations
3   Jan 30     2.3       Modeling
4   Feb 1    2.4-2.5     Nonlinear Equations
5   Feb 6      2.6       Integrating Factors
6   Feb 8      2.8       Existence and Uniqueness
                         QUIZ I -- postponed to Feb 13
7   Feb 13     3.1       Homogeneous Equations
8   Feb 15   3.2-3.3     The Wronskian
9   Feb 20   3.4-3.5     Complex and Repeated Roots
10  Feb 22     3.6       Undetermined Coefficients
11  Feb 27     3.7       Variation of Parameters
12  Mar 1      6.1       Laplace Transform
13  Mar 6      6.2       Initial Value Problems
14  Mar 8      6.6       The Convolution 
15  Mar 13               REVIEW
16  Mar 15               MIDTERM EXAM

                               Spring Break

17  Mar 27     5.1       Power Series
18  Mar 29   5.2-5.3     Series Solution at an Ordinary Point
19  Apr 3      5.4       Singular Points
20  Apr 5      5.5       Euler Equations
21  Apr 10   5.6-5.7     Solution at a Regular Singular Point
22  Apr 12     5.8       Bessel's Equation
                         QUIZ II
23  Apr 17     7.1       First Order Systems
24  Apr 19     7.2       Matrices and Inverses
25  Apr 24     7.3       Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
26  Apr 26   7.4-7.5     Linear First Order Systems
27  May 1      7.6       Complex Eigenvalues
28  May 3    7.7-7.8     Fundamental Matrices 
29  May 8                REVIEW

Final Exam

The final exam will be held on Friday, May 11 from 7:30am to 9:30am in Fleischmann Greenhouse SEM347

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Last updated: Sun Jan 21 20:51:54 PST 2001