Math 22B: Differential Equations
Spring Quarter, 2008
Section 2

Announcement

Midterm 1 will be in class, Wednesday, April 23. Some sample problems are posted below. I'll review the material in class on Monday, April 21.

Instructor

John Hunter
e-mail: jkhunter@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-3189
Office: 3230 MSB
Office hours: MWF 1:00–2:00 p.m.

Lectures: MWF 2:10–3:00 p.m., 2205 Haring Hall

Important dates:

TAs

Exams

There will be two in-class midterms and a final. There will be no makeup exams.

Midterm 1

Midterm 1: Wednesday, April 23, 2:10–3:00 p.m.

Midterm 1 will cover the following topics.

Midterm 1: Sample exam

Solutions to sample midterm questions

Midterm 1: Solutions

Midterm 2

Midterm 2: Wednesday, May 21, 2:10–3:00 p.m.

Final

Final (Exam Code B): Saturday, June 7, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Homework

Homework problems will be assigned on this web page, but homework will not be collected or graded. Selected homework solutions will be posted after the suggested completion date.

Course Grade

The course grade will be based on (weights in parentheses):

Text for Math 22B

Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, William E. Boyce and Richard C. DiPrima, Eighth edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

The course will cover Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7

The department syllabus gives a detailed outline.

The publisher has a companion web site for the text, which includes Maple, MATLAB and Mathematica files for ODEs, and information about the ODE architect software included with the text.

An additional resource for Math 22B is Craig Tracy's Lectures on Ordinary Differential Equations.

Computer Accounts

The class will not have assignments that involve computation. However, if you want to use numerical packages such as MATLAB to increase your understanding of differential equations, you can sign up with the mathematics department for a class account.

I will post some simple MATLAB files for ODEs here, or you can write your own.

Homework Assignments

Set 1 (Friday, April 4)

Solutions
Figures for solutions

Set 2 (Friday April 11):

Solutions

Set 3 (Friday, April 18):

Solutions
Figure 1 for solutions
Figure 2 for solutions

Set 4 (Friday, May 2):

Set 5 (Friday, May 9):

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