Course Schedule 

                           

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Tentative Schedule

Date   Day

Topics

Jan 7 W Introduction
9 F Separable Equations
12 M First Order Equations
14 W Free Fall/Mixing
16 F Population/Autonomous Eqns
  19 M Holiday
21 W Software for ODEs
23 F Bifurcations
26 M Second Order -Const Coeff I
28 W Linear Independence/Wronskian
30 F Reduction of Order
Feb 2 M Const Coeff II - Complex Roots
4 W Review
  6 F Exam I
9 M Undetermined Coeffs
11 W Variation of Parameters
13 F Simple Harmonic Motion
16 M Resonance
18 W Euler's Method
20 F Rung-Kutta Method
23 M Taylor Series Method
25 W Power Series Method
27 F Cauchy-Euler Equations
Mar 1 M Frobenius Method
3 W Review
  5 F Exam II

Spring Vacation - March 6-14

15 M Legendre's Equation
17 W Legendre Polynomials
19 F Bessel's Equation
22 M Bessel Functions
24 W Laplace Transform
26 F Solution of IVPs
29 M Heaviside Function
31 W Impulse Function
Apr 4 F Convolution
5 M Review
  7 W Exam III
  8 R Vacation
  9 F Vacation
12 M Systems of ODEs
  14 W General Solutions
16 F System Examples
19 M Stability/Phase Portrait
21 W Matrix Methods
23 F Eigenvalue Problems
26 M Nonlinear Systems and Beyond

 

 

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E-Mail: Dr. Russell Herman Last Updated: January 20, 2004