Math 2403, Sections B1, B2, B3
Differential Equations
Course Information (Summer 2011)

Time: MWF: 12:00 pm - 1:10pm
Place: Howey Physics L4
Text: Brannan & Boyce, Differential Equations: An Introduction to Modern Methods & Applications, 1st ed
Instructor: Jim Krysiak
Office: Skiles 142
Phone: 404 894 6434 (not preferred, sporadic)
E-mail: jkrysiak at math.gatech.edu (preferred)
WWW: www.math.gatech.edu/~jkrysiak
Office Hours: MW 2-3 PM, and by appointment
Teaching Assistants: B1 - Weizhe Zhang
B2 - Ke Yin
B3 - Arash Asadi
Recitation Time: TR: 2:00 pm - 3:10 pm
Recitation Place: B1 - Skiles 169
B2 - Skiles 271
B3 - Skiles 268
Homework: Homeworks will be posted weekly on the course page. They will not be collected, but they will feature
strongly on the quizzes and exams.
Recitations: You are expected to come to recitations having attempted to work the assignment and prepared with questions
for the TA. It is not a second lecture or a vehicle for them to do your work.
Quizzes: There will be a closed book, closed notes quiz each week during Thursday recitation based on the previous
week's class and homework. There will be no quizzes the first week or exam weeks, for a total of eight quizzes.
Exams: There will be two midterm exams. The final will be at the university scheduled time.
A one-sided note sheet, along with a scientific calculator is permissible.
Graphing calculators are not admissible.
Grading: Your lowest quiz will be dropped. Any possible curves will only be determined at the instructor's
discretion after all grades are submitted.
The final rubric is: quizzes 25%, first midterm 20%, second midterm 20%, final 35%.
Background: This course relies on the techniques you learned in differential and integral calculus. Brush up on them
if it's been a while.
Recommendations: This course builds very heavily on a few key ideas. If you follow the lectures, do the problems, and ask
questions in recitation and lecture, it will make sense conceptually and the rest will follow smoothly.

Tentative Syllabus

Date
Topics covered
Homework
Week 1
05/16-05/20
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.1
Week 2
05/23-05/27
2.2, 2.6, 2.3, 2.4 (Quiz 1)
Week 3
05/30-06/03
2.5, 1.3, 2.7, 2.8 (Quiz 2)
Week 4
06/06-06/10
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 (Quiz 3)
Homework 4
Week 5
06/13-06/17
First Midterm, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2
Homework 5
Week 6
06/20-06/24
4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 (Quiz 4)
Week 7
06/27-07/01
4.6, 4.7, 4.8 (Quiz 5) Homework 7
Week 8
07/04-07/08
6.1, 6.2 (Quiz 6) Homework 8
Week 9
07/11-07/15
Second Midterm, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6, 6.7, 7.2 Homework 9
Week 10
07/18-07/22
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 (Quiz 7) Homework 10
Week 11
07/25-07/29
5.5, 5.6, 5.7 (Quiz 8) Homework 11
Week 12
Final
08/03/2011, 11:30am--2:20pm
Maple Worksheet with some of the commands we used in class: Download