2552-Differential Equations (Spring 2017)

MATH 2552-C

Instructor Jean V Bellissard Professor of Mathematics and Physics School of Math, Skiles 132, Phone: (404) 385-2179 (Math), Fax: (404) 894-4409 e-mail: jeanbel@math.gatech.edu Lecture College of Computing Room 16 Mo-Wed-Fri 9:05-9:55am Office Hours Skiles 132, Wednesday 4-5pm (or by appointment)

Recitation C1 C1 Skiles 156 Tu-Th 9:05-9:55am TA: Hagop Tossounian e-mail: htossounian3@math.gatech.edu Office hours: Tu. 1:30-2:30pm Skiles 145 Math-Lab Tu. 4-5pm CULC 280 Recitation C2 C2- Skiles 257 Tu-Th   9:05-9:55am TA: Dawei He e-mail: dhe9@math.gatech.edu Office hours: Th. 3-4pm Skiles 139 Math-Lab Tu 2-3pm CULC 280 Recitation C3 C3- Skiles 255 Tu-Th 10:05-10:55am TA: Dawei He e-mail: dhe9@math.gatech.edu Office hours: Th. 3-4pm Skiles 139 Math-Lab Tu 2-3pm CULC 280 Recitation C4 C4- Skiles 268 Tu-Th 9:05-9:55am TA: Seth Radman e-mail: sradman3@gatech.edu Office hours: Tu. 10-11am Skiles 230

Calendar of the Month (to full Fall calendar ) Final Exam : Monday May 1st,   11:30am-2:20pm    Coll. of Comp. Room 16

March 27-31:  Second Order Linear Equations   Reading:  Chapter 4.1, 4.2,  (March 29: Test#2) April 3-5-7:  Second Order ODE, Forcing,   Reading:  Chapter 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, April 10-12-14:  Variation of Parameters, Laplace Transform,   Reading:  Chapter 4.6-4.7, 5.1 April 17-19-21-24:  Laplace Transform,   Reading:  Chapter 5.2-5.3-5.4-5.5-5.6 Homework #4: p.215     Exercises: 19 p.227     Exercises: 16, 19, 29 p.240     Exercises: 29, 52 p.250-251   Exercises: 9, 25 p.261     Exercises: 31 p.281     Exercises: 32 p.303     Exercises: 17 Due date:  Thursday April 20th, 2017

	Course Outline	Topics Introduction, linear equations, and Euler's method First order differential equations and systems of two first order equations Systems of n first order equations; Nonlinear equations and stability Second order linear equations; Laplace transform methods
	Textbook	Official textbook    James R.Brannan, Williams E.Boyce      "Differential Equations", Third edition,       John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2015           (return to top)
	Need Help ?	Before each class, read in advance the textbook Section that is going to be taught. After each class, take an hour or two to solve some of the problems proposed in the corresponding section. Feeling lost or overwhelmed ? Please contact your Instructor or your TA to explain your difficulties. Students can use the tutoring facility MathLab located in      Clough Commons building, Room 280: M-W 12-5pm, Tu-Th 2-6pm
	Homework	Four compulsory Homework problems will be proposed during the semester. The graded will be done on a randomly chosen subset of the proposed exercises.
	Tests	Two 50 min. tests will be proposed during the semester. Friday   February 10th during class    ( to calendar) Wednesday March 29th during class    ( to calendar)
	Final Exam	Monday May 1st,   11:30am-2:20pm    Coll. of Comp. Room 16    ( to calendar)
		An absence to the final exam will be graded 0 (zero). However if the absence is justified (disease, injury, ...), the student must (i) warn the instructor as soon as possible, in any case before the end of the exam week, (ii) bring the documents justifying the absence to the Instructor. Then the student will receive an I (incomplete) and will be responsible to take action during the following semester to complete his/her curriculum.
	Grades	Homeworks 25% 90% for an A Tests 35% Grade distribution 80% for a   B Final 40% 70% for a   C 60% for a   D

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