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Days Material to be covered Sections Supplementary Problems              
June 24 Introduction
Direction fields
1.1-1.3
3, 4
June 25 Separable Equations 2.2 21 -- 25
June 26 Equations reducable to separable equations. 2.2 35 -- 38
July 1 Exact Equations 2.6 10 -- 12
July 1 Integrating Factors 2.6 31, 32
July 2 Linear Equations 2.1 34 -- 37
July 3 Review    
July 5 Test 1   take home
July 8 Maple and Matlab    
July 8 Euler Methods 2.7 15 -- 19
July 9 Numerical solutions
Runge-Kutta method
8.3 7 -- 12
July 10 Second order equations
Fundamental set of solutions. Wronskian
3.1
3.2
1--17odd,25,26
1-19odd, 23,24,28--31
July 11 Second order equations
Fundamental set of solutions. Wronskian
3.1
3.2
1--17odd,25,26
1-19odd, 23,24,28--31
July 15 Non-homogeneous equations. Lagrange's method and methods of undetermined coefficients 3.4
3.5
1 -- 25
1-19odd, 28 -- 31
July 16 Mechanical and Electrical Vibrations 3.7
Review
10 -- 19
July 18 Test 2    
July 22 Laplace transformation 6.1 1 -- 14
July 23 Properties 6.1 15 -- 24
July 24 Inverse Laplace transformation 6.2 1 -- 10
July 25   6.2 17 -- 26
July 29 Laplace transformation in differential equations 6.3
6.4
1,2,5,6,7,8,14-18,21,24,25,40
1,7,9,22,23
July 30 -- Aug 1 Applications and examples    
  Last day of class August 1 Final August 4, 9 -- 12 (noon)

Textbook: Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, by William E. Boyce and Richard C. DiPrima. John Wiley & Sons, 10th edition, 2012, ISBN 978-0-470-45831-0


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