Differential Equations, MAT 22B

Differential Equations, MAT 22B (Fall09)

MWF 01:10pm -- 02:00pm, Wellman Hall 126

Textbook: Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, W.E. Boyce and R.C. DiPrima, Wiley

Announcements

-- 11/09: A sample midterm II has been posted here.
-- 10/26: Solutions of Midterm I have been posted here.
-- 10/09: A sample midterm I has been posted here.
-- 09/30: If you already know now that you will not be able to attend one of the exams, please send me an email with the reason for your absence.

Instructor

Sven Bachmann
Email:	svenbac@math.ucdavis.edu
Office:	MSB 2149
Office hours:	M 03:10pm -- 04:00pm and W 11:00am -- 11:50am

Teaching Assistant

Matthew Low
Email:	mlow@math.ucdavis.edu
Office:	MSB 3110
Office hours:	Thr 10:00am -- 12:00am

Course Grade, Homework and Exams

The final grades will be based on the following scheme

Midterms: 25% each
Final exam: 50%

Homework is assigned every Monday at the end of class. They are for your personal training and should help you understand the course material. They will not be graded, but some of the exercises might appear in the exams.

There will be two midterm exams (see Syllabus for details of chapters)

Wednesday, Oct 21 covering the introduction and first order differential equations, Sections 1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.5, 2.7-2.8.
Sample midterm I;
Here the actual midterm with solutions;
Wednesday, Nov 18 covering second order differential equations and the method of Laplace transform, Sections 3.1-3.9, 6.1-6.2
Sample midterm II and expect a question on the Laplace transform;

The comprehensive final exam will be held on Friday Dec 11, 10:30am -- 12:30pm.

All exams will be closed book with no calculators or electronic devices (such as cell phones) allowed. No communication among the students will be tolerated. There will be no make up exams.

Use of computers

Experimenting with computer programmes such as Maple (the easiest to start with), Mathematica or Matlab could be illuminating. To set up an account on the Department computers and use these programmes, follow this link .