| Lecturer: | Tauqir Bibi |
| Office: | Carver 445 |
| Phone: | 294 8184 |
| E-mail: | tauqir@iastate.edu |
| Office Hours: | Monday - Friday, 1:40 pm - 2:40pm |
| Text: | Edwards & Penney, Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems, fourth edition, Prentice Hall |
| Class Meetings: | Monday - Friday, 12:10 - 1:30 pm, Carver 0282 | Useful Website: | www.prenhall.com/edwards |
This course is intended to introduce basic procedures and techniques for solving ordinary differential equations. The contents include first order equations, linear equations, constant coefficient equations, Eigenvalue methods for systems of first order linear equations, introduction to stability and phase plane analysis, Laplace transforms and series solutions to ordinary differential equations.
Prerequisites: To be properly prepared for this course you need to be reasonably adept with material from Math 166, 166H, or 176.
Studying: I recommend that you read over the sections of the
text before they are covered in class. After class, you should re-read
the material and compare it with your notes. Then you will be ready to
work the assigned exercises. You may find that you
need to do more than the specified assignment to become sufficiently
adept at working the problems.
During the summer term, classes move much more rapidly than usual. It
will be very hard to catch up if you fall behind. If you find that you
cannot keep up, talk to me soon, while there is still time
to do something about it.
Homework, Tests, Grades:
I have assigned homework for each section in the book. Home works will be
collected, but may not be graded. You can discuss the homework with others, but
you have to write your own solutions, and do your own calculations. I suggest
you to do the homework problems right after we cover the section, and save it.
Keep your (neatly written) homework organized together in one place, and bring
it to class. Feel free to talk to your TA or me whenever you have difficulty or
unsure of your answer. The table below shows the points available from all the
sources
| Four in-class exams: | 400 points (50%) |
| Final exam: | 150 points (18.75%) |
| Home works: | 100 points (12.5%) |
| Quizzes: | 100 points (12.5%) |
| Attendance: | 50 points (6.25%) |
| Total: | 800 points |
Syllabus (Approximate):
| Week #1: 6/16 - 6/20 | Sections 1.1 - 1.5 |
| Week #2: 6/23 - 6/27 | Sections 1.6 - 1.8, review Exam 1 |
| Week #3: 6/30 - 7/3 | Section 2.1 - 2.5 |
| Week #4: 7/7 - 7/11 | Sections 2.6 - 2.8, review, Exam 2 |
| Week #5: 7/14 - 7/18 | Sections 4.1 - 4.6 |
| Week #6: 7/21 - 7/25 | Exam 3, Sections 5.1 - 5.4 |
| Week #7: 7/28 - 8/1 | Section 5.5 - 5.8, Exam 4 |
| Week #8: 8/4 - 8/8 | Sections 3.1 - 3.3,review, final |