MA 221 SYLLABUS for 14F

Week

Lect 1

Lect 2

Lectures

HW - Sections

 

 

 

Sections

Topics

 

1

25-Aug

27-Aug

1.1,1.2,2.2,2.3

Solutions of Des, IVPs, Separable & Linear DE

1.2,2.2,2.3

2

3-Sep

8-Sep

2.4,2.6,4.1,4.2

Exact, Bernoulli DE, 2nd order

2.4,2.6,4.2

3

10-Sep

15-Sep

4.3,4.4

2nd order - constant coefficients

4.3, PEx I

4

17-Sep

22-Sep

Ex I,4.4,4.5

Undetermined coefficients

4.4

5

24-Sep

29-Sep

4.6,8.5

Variation of parameters, Cauchy-Euler DE

4.4

6

1-Oct

6-Oct

7.2,7.3

Laplace transforms

4.6,8.5

7

8-Oct

14-Oct

7.4,7.5

Solving 2nd order IVP with Laplace transforms

7.2,7.3

8

15-Oct

20-Oct

8.2,8.3

Review of infinite series, Taylor series method

7.4,7.5, PEx II

9

22-Oct

27-Oct

Ex II, 8.3

Series solution near an ordinary point

8.2,8.3

10

29-Oct

3-Nov

11.2

Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions

8.3,11.2

11

5-Nov

10-Nov

10.3,10.4

Orthogonal expansions, Fourier sine & cosine series

11.2,10.4

12

12-Nov

17-Nov

10.2,10.6

Separation of variables for PDE

10.2,10.6

13

19-Nov

24-Nov

10.6, Ex III

Wave Equation

PEx III,10.4,10.5

14

1-Dec

3-Dec

10.5, Review

Heat Equation, Review

10.5 

Text: Fundamentals of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, Sixth Edition by R. Kent Nagle,  Edward B. Saff, and Arthur David Snider. The book is published by Addison Wesley. ISBN: 13: 978-0-321-74774-7   ISBN: 10: 0-321-74774-7.

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