MAT 22B Syllabus Page (Winter, 2001)

Course: MAT 022B-001 
CRN: 79323 
Title: Differential Equations 
Class: MWF 9:00am-9:50am, 126 Wellman 

Instructor: Naoki Saito 
Office: 675 Kerr 
Email: saito@math.ucdavis.edu 
Office Hours: MW 1:30pm-3:00pm or appointment by email

Teaching Assistant: Justin Abbott 
Office: 687 Kerr 
Email: justin@math.ucdavis.edu 
Office Hours: TTh 10:00am-noon or appointment by email

• To be able to solve certain linear and nonlinear differential equations
• To be able to describe the behavior of the solution to differential equations
• To understand the importance of mathematical modeling of certain natural phenomena describable by differential equations

W. E. Boyce and R. C. DiPrima, "Elementary Differential Equations," Seventh Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2000; this is a required textbook.
We will cover the following sections of this book:
1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.8, 3.1-3.7, 6.1-6.2, 7.1-7.9.

All students enrolled in Math 22B should have passed 21C and 22A with a grade of D or better.

Regular attendance to the lectures is strongly advised.  Neither eating nor disturbing the lectures/the other students is allowed.

I will maintain the  Web pages for this course (one of which you are looking at now).  All homework assignments and important announcements will be posted on these pages.  Please check these pages regularly.
You can access the 22B home page at https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~saito/courses/22B/
from which you can access to from which you can access to this syllabus page and the homework page.

20% Homework, 20% Midterm #1, 20% Midterm #2, 40% Final Exam.
Final grade will be based on relative class performance, not the absolute scores of homeworks and exams.

There will be two midterm exams (MT) as follows:
MT1: Wednesday, January 31st in class (9:00am-9:50am)
MT2: Wednesday, February 21st in class (9:00am-9:50am)

The final exam will be held on Wednesday, March 21st from 1:30pm to 3:30pm at the same room 126 Wellman.

There will be NO MAKE-UP EXAMS for Midterms and Final. If you miss exams due to unavoidable circumstances such as serious illness of yourself or death in your family, you must provide me with a written proof and document.  Then I will adjust the weights to the exams you actually took to make the sum of the weights 100%. *** Added 01/11/01 by NS *** Note that you are NOT allowed to use calculators (including palm/laptop computers) in any exam in this course.

I will assign homework every Friday. Its due date is the following Friday. In principle, I will collect the homework at the beginning of the Friday lecture. If you cannot attend the Friday lecture for some reason, then you can drop your homework at my office (675 Kerr) or at my mail box (5th floor Kerr) BEFORE the Friday lecture. If you wish, you can submit your homework at the Wednesday lecture prior to the deadline. LATE HOMEWORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. A subset of these problems will be graded. The graded homework will be returned to the homework boxes located in the basement of Wellman Hall by the following Friday. The homework that is not picked up at the end of this quarter will be discarded. So, please pick them up as soon as possible. I will post the solution to each homework on the web as pdf files after my Friday lecture.
Please staple your papers. Put your name, assignment number, and due date in the right hand corner of each page. Present your homework neatly. If the reader cannot read your writing, it may be marked wrong.
I will strongly recommend to work on the homework problems daily, not just the night before it is due.
Click here to go to homework page. *** Added 01/11/01 by NS *** Note that your worst HW score will NOT be included for your course grade calculation.

Note that there will not be class on Jan. 15 (Mon) and Feb. 19 (Mon). To make up these, there will be an additional class on Mar. 15 (Thu) as the registration guide describes.