Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Ordinary and Partial Differential Equa-
tions (4) First- and second-order equations; special functions; Laplace trans-
form solutions; higher order equations; Fourier series; partial differential
equations.

PREREQUISITE: MATH 141 or MATH 141H

TEXT: Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems,
William E. Boyce & Richard C. DiPrima

9th Edition ISBN: 978-0-470-38334-6

or

8th Edition ISBN: 978-0-471-43338-5:

INSTRUCTOR: Vitaliy Gyrya

Office hours: Wednesday & Friday, 11am-noon, 3pm-4pm.

EXAMINATIONS: There will be two midterm exams and one final exam.
Exam I will be held on Thursday 2/26/06.
Exam II will be announced.
Final Exam will be during Final Exam Week as scheduled by the Registrar.
Makeup exams will be given only if a University recognized excuse is pro-
vided.

COURSE GRADES:

Exam I	100 points	Grade	Cut off
Exam II	100 points	A	90%
Homework & Quizzes	150 points	B	80%
Final Exam	150 points	C	70%
Total	500 points	D	60%

COURSE DESCRIPTION and NUMBER of LECTURES :

	INTRODUCTION
1.1	Direction fields	1
1.2	Solutions of Some DE's	.5
1.3	Classification of DE's	.5

	FIRST ORDER DE's
2.2	Separable Equations	1
2.1	Linear Equations with Variable Coefficients	2
2.3	Modeling with First Order Equations
	(do mixture, interest and air resistance)	3
2.4	Differences Between Linear and Nonlinear Equations	1
2.5	Autonomous Equations, Population Dynamics
	(cover stability and concavity)	1
2.6	Exact Equations (omit integrating factors)	1

	SECOND ORDER LINEAR EQUATIONS
p.131	The case of the missing y and the case of the missing t	1
3.1	Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients
	(cover the equations with missing y or missing t,
	initial value problems with data specified not at 0)	2
3.2	Fundamental Solutions of Linear Homogeneous Equations	2
3.3	Complex Roots of the Characteristic Equations	2
3.4	Repeated Roots ; Reduction of Order	1
3.5	Nonhomogeneous Equations;
	Method of Undetermined Coefficient	3
3.7	Mechanical Vibrations (omit electrical vibrations)	2
3.8	Forced Vibrations (no damping)	1

	HIGHER ORDER LINEAR EQUATIONS
4.2	Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients	1

	SERIES SOLUTIONS OF SECOND ORDER LINEAR EQUATIONS
5.2	Series solutions near an ordinary point	1

	THE LAPLACE TRANSFORM
6.1	Definition of the Laplace Transform	2
6.2	Solution of Initial Value Problems	2
6.3	Step Functions	1
6.4	Differential Equations with Discontinuous Forcing Functions	1
6.5	Impulse Functions	1

	SYSTEMS OF FIRST ORDER LINEAR EQUATIONS
7.1	Introduction to Systems of Differential Equations	1
7.5-9	Classification of critical points and sketching phase portraits.	2

	NUMERICAL METHODS
8.1	The Euler or Tangent Line Method	1

	NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND STABILITY
9.1	Phase portraits and stability	1
9.2	Phase portraits for Nonhomogeneous Linear systems	1
9.5	Linearize a nonlinear system at each of its critical points.
	Phase portrait for predator- prey equation .	1

	PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND FOURIER SERIES
10.1	Two Point Boundary Value Problems	1
10.2	Fourier Series	2
10.3	The Fourier Theorem	2
10.4	Even and Odd Functions	2
10.5	Separation of Variables ; Heat in a Rod	2
10.6	Other Heat Conduction Problems	2
10.7	The Wave Equation: Vibrations of an Elastic String	1
10.8	Laplace's Equation	1

	Review	3

	Total	59

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