Section F1 MW 11:15-12:05
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Thibaud Alemany
Skiles 268
Office Hours: Tue 11:00-12:00
Section F2 11:15-12:05
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Jaemin Park
Skiles 269
Office Hours: Fri 12:30-1:30 Cluck 280
Section F3 MW 12:20-1:10
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Thibaud Alemany
Skiles 268
Office Hours: Tue 11:00-12:00
Section F4 MW 12:20-1:10
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Jaemin Park
Skiles 269
Office Hours: Fri 12:30-1:30 Cluck 280
Section L1 MW 4:30-5:20
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Xingyu Zhu
Skiles 168
Office Hours: TTh 3:00-4:00 Cluck 280 or by appointment
Section L2 MW 4:30-5:20
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Yuqing Wang
Skiles 169
Office Hours: Fri 1:30-2:30 Cluck 280
Section L3 MW 6:00-6:50
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Xingyu Zhu
Skiles 168
Office Hours: TTh 3:00-4:00 Cluck 280 or by appointment
Section L4 MW 6:00-6:50
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Yuqing Wang
Skiles 169
Office Hours: Fri 1:30-2:30 Cluck 280
Text: An Introduction to Modern Methods & Application (3rd Edition)
James R. Brannan & William E. Boyce
Topics/Sections Covered: Topics from Chapters 1-8
Grading Scheme:
Homework 15%
Exam 1 27%
Exam 2 28%
Final Exam 30%
(Below 60% F; 60-69% D; 70-79% C; 80-89% B; 90-100% A)
HOMEWORK   Homework will be collected in recitation on Wednesday and checked for completion.
Dates of Exams (tentative):
Exam 1 Thursday February 14  
Exam 2 Tuesday April 2  
Final Exams:
F Sections: Thursday May 2   (11:20-2:10)
L Sections: Tuesday April 30   (2:40-5:30)
Exams are cumulative.
No calculators, notes, or other aids may be used during exams.
Policy on missed exams: Official written excuse required.
If you want to meet me during office hours, send an email to let me know. If you want to meet me outside office hours, send me an email and let me know.
Sample Exams:
Exam 1
Note: This practice exam was prepared from the previous edition of the text,
so topics may vary slightly.
Updated Practice Exam 1
The list of topics on the previous exam should be modified for the updated
exam (Spring 2019) in the following manner: No numerical methods are covered
on the updated exam. Some elementary aspects of systems (linearity, existence
and uniqueness, equilibria for autonomous systems, and solving linear systems
when there is a basis of real eigenvectors) are now included.
Exam 2
Exam 2 (updated from a previous semester)
The list of topics on this exam from a previous semester
should be updated to *include*
linearization and phase plane techniques as well as population systems.
Some material on "elementary oscillators" is not included on the 2019 exam,
but some of it is---the main topics that are *not* included are the
"trigonometric tricks" related to
periodic forcing of a linear oscillator (beats and resonance). These
are not included.
Updated (2019) Practice Exam 2
Final Exam
some solutions
new/updated practice final
Practice Final Exam Spring 2019
Table of Laplace transforms for the final
Extra Materials:
Matlab Tutorial by Tobias von Petersdorff
Another direction field and phase plane plotter from John Polking of Rice (recommended by Stefan Abi Karam)
Classification of equilibrium points by Gerhard Dangelmayr of Colorado State
Direction Fields (Mathematica notebook)
pdf
numerical solutions I (Mathematica notebook)
pdf
numerical solutions II (Mathematica notebook)
pdf
numerical solutions III (Mathematica notebook)
pdf
matrix exponentiation and ODEs
An oscillator problem (Mathematica notebook) with several errors
pdf
An oscillator problem (Mathematica notebook) corrected version
pdf
An oscillator problem with discontinuous forcing (Mathematica notebook)
pdf
An oscillator problem with discontinuous forcing (Mathematica notebook)
pdf
A nonlinear system (Mathematica notebook)
pdf
Stopping a linear oscillator with an impulse
Slope Field Generator + Euler's Method
Problem 2.6.4 in Brannon and Boyce
Solving a system numerically
pdf
Exercise 4.6.6,8 pdf
First Lecture