Math 527: Differential Equations with Linear Algebra

Basics

Lecture: Spaulding 120, MWF 1:10-2:00pm
Instructor: John F. Gibson. Office hours MW 4-5pm, N309E Kingsbury Hall
Teaching assistants:

Kyle Gray (sections 1-3). Office hours T 4-5:30pm, W 2-3:30pm, N330 Kingsbury Hall
Ali Zarringhalam (sections 4-6). Office hours T 2-3pm, W 3:45-4:45pm, H 10-11am, N318 Kingsbury Hall
Elizabeth Wu (sections 7-9). Office hours TH 8-9:30am, N318 Kingsbury Hall

Syllabus: lecture topics by date, homework due dates, exam dates

Policies: on homework, exams, total grade calculations, etc.

02/07/2014: Please see Exams for exam room assignments.
02/05/2014: University closed, lecture canceled due to snow. Since we will not have time to address substitutions in 1st order ODEs before HW2 is due, please do just problems 1-7. The due date for HW2 remains 02/06/2014 in recitation.
01/24/2014: Changed homework due dates on syllabus to Thursdays in recitation, and revised number of points off for missing or illegible names, etc. on policies.
01/21/2014: You are responsible for reading and understanding the course policies and syllabus.
01/21/2014: Add/drop forms for this course are approved and signed by the Math Dept office, W383 Kingsbury Hall. The instructor and TAs cannot sign these forms.

Homework policies. Homeworks are due most Thursdays in recitation.

homework	due	solutions	topic	notes
HW1	01/30	HW1 solns	separable & 1st order linear
HW2	02/06	HW2 solns	exact equations & substitutions	don't do problems 8-10
HW3	02/20	HW3 solns	2nd-order const coeff homogeneous, reduction of order	problem 10: assume $\alpha^2 - 4 \beta > 0$
HW4	02/27	HW4 solns	judicious guessing
HW5	03/27	HW5 solns	Laplace transforms	lots of problems, so get started early!
HW6	04/03	HW6 solns	Laplace transforms, s and t translation, delta function
HW7	04/22	HW7 solns	power series method	note revised due date
HW8	05/01	HW8 solns	systems of differential equations

Exam policies. Exams 1-3 will be held during lecture time, 1:10-2:00pm.


exam 1	M 2/10	1st order eqns	last year's exam and solutions	exam1
exam 2	W 3/5	2nd & higher order eqns	last year's exam and solutions, and some var. of params problems and solutions
exam 3	M 4/7	Laplace transforms	last year's exam and solutions (there's a sign error in solution to the EC problem)
final	W 5/14	everything	last year's final exam and solutions

The final exam is scheduled for Wednesday, May 14th, 1:00-3:00pm. Room assignment is by last name