Course Schedule 

                           

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Tentative Schedule

Updated - due to Snow Days
Date     Chap Topics
Jan 13 M 1 History of ODEs
15 W 1 ODE Review I
17 F 2 ODE Review II
20 M No Class
22 W 2 Snow Day
  24 F 2 Snow Day
27 M 2 Linear Systems in the Plane
  29 2 Equilibrium Solutions
31 2 Polar Forms/Maple-MATLAB
Feb 3 2  Matrices/Eigenvalue Problems
5    Classification of Cases
7    Exponentiation of Matrices
10 M   Exam I
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Applications/Nonhomogeneous Systems
14 3 Nonlinear ODEs and Bifurcations
17 3 Stability of Nonlinear Systems
 19 3 Nonlinear Pendulum/MATLAB
21 3 Simulink/Exact Solution of Nonlinear Pendulum
24 3 Lotka-Volterra/Limit Cycles
26 3 Asymptotics/Nonautonomous Systems
28 F   Exam II
        Spring Break March 1-8
Mar 10 4 Boundary Value Problems
12 4 Applications/Heat Equation
14 4 Linear Algebra Connections
17 4 Eigenfunction Expansions
19 W 5 Fourier Series I
21 5 Fourier Series II
24 5 Applications
  26 5 Sine-Cosine Series
28   Exam III
  31 6 Sturm-Liouville Theory
 Apr 2 6 Properties - Sturm-Liouville BVPs
3 6 Eigenfunction Expansions
7 6 Fredholm Alternative
9 7 Special Functions
11 7 Legendre Polynomials
14 7 Bessel Functions
16 7 Hypergeometric Functions
  17 R   No Class
  18 F   No Class
21 M 7 More on Series Solutions 
23 8 Variation of Parameters
  25 8 Green's Functions
  28  8 Dirac Delta Function
  30  8 Properties of Green's Functions
    8 Series Representations
May 7   Final Exam 8:00 AM
    Other Topics
  • Numerical Solutions
  • Hypergeometric equation
  • Laplace transforms
  • Perturbation Theory
  • Divergent Series
  • Historical references
  • Fractional

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E-Mail: Dr. Russell Herman Last Updated: January 30, 2025