
Days |
Material to be covered |
Sections |
Supplementary Problems
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June 24 |
Introduction
Direction fields |
1.1-1.3
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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 |
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July 5 |
Test 1 |
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take home |
July 8 |
Maple and Matlab |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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