MAT 244H1F "Ordinary Differential Equations" (Fall 2011)
The midterms: 6:10-7:00pm on Wednesdays, Oct.12 and Nov.9.
The quizzes: on the weeks of Sep.26, Oct.24, and Nov.21.
The final: Monday, Dec.12, 7-10pm, Upper Small Gymnasium, Benson Building, 320 Huron Str, 3rd floor.
The final covered all the material of recommended exercises but Section 5.3.
Policy on missed quizzes and termtests
Textbook: W.Boyce and R.DiPrima, Elementary Differential Equations, 9th Ed.
or Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, 9th Ed.
Correspondence of the 8th and 9th editions of the textbook.
The TA hours (at room BA6283): Monday 2-3pm, Tuesday 2-4pm,
Wednesday 4-5:30pm, and Thursday 2:30-4pm
Office hours of Jonathan Fisher: Thursdays 12-2pm at BA 6283
Office hours of Professor B.Khesin: Mondays 11:10-1:30pm
at BA 6228 and by appointment.
Tentative plan (Chapter #'s -- the week(s) of ... ):
Ch.1 -- Sep.12,
Ch.2 -- Sep.12, Sep.19, Sep.26 (quiz 1 on the week of Sep.26)
Ch.3 -- Oct.3, Oct.10 (midterm 1 on the week of Oct.10)
Ch.4 -- Oct.10, Oct.17, Oct.24 (quiz 2 on the week of Oct.24)
Ch.7 -- Oct.24, Oct.31, Nov.7 (midterm 2 on the week of Nov.7)
Ch.9 -- Nov.7, Nov.14
Ch.5 -- Nov.21, Nov.28 (quiz 3 on the week of Nov.21)
Review -- Nov.28
Handouts and additional materials:
1) A table of integrals (the circled ones are to memorize): pages
1,
2.
2) A handout on direction fields: pages
1,
2.
3) Solutions to the handout on direction fields: pages
1,
2.
4) A proof of the existence and uniqueness theorem (not required): pages
1,
2,
3,
4.
5) The table of phase portraits for linear 2-by-2 systems:
1,
2,
3.