Math 351: Elementary Differential Equations

Fall 1998

General Information

Section number: 03
Room and hours: 309 Witmer Hall, 1:00-1:50 P.M. MWF
Instructor: L. Peterson
Fall 1998 office hours: click here.

Assignments

  1. Section 1.1: 1-10, 15, 16
    Due September 4, 1998

  2. Section 1.2: 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 29
    Due September 4, 1998

  3. Section 1.3: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15
    Due September 9, 1998

  4. Section 1.4: 1, 3, 4, 7
    Due September 9, 1998

  5. Section 2.2: 7, 10, 11, 14, 19, 20, 23, 29, 33, 36
    Due September 14, 1998

  6. Do Problem 16, Page 29. Do this on Mathematica, and hand in a paper copy of your notebook.
    Due: September 21, 1998.

  7. Section 2.3: 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 20, 23, 25(a), 28, 38
    Due: September 21, 1998

  8. Section 2.4: 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 23, 29
    Due: September 21, 1998

  9. Section 2.5: 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18
    Due: Friday, September 25, 1998

  10. Section 2.6: 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 26, 29
    Due: Friday, September 25, 1998

  11. Section 4.2: 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 23, 26, 27, 34
    Due: Monday, October 5, 1998

  12. Section 4.3: 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 16, 21
    Due: Monday, October 12, 1998

  13. Section 4.4: 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 16
    Due: Monday, October 12, 1998

  14. Section 4.5: 1, 3, 8, 10, 13, 16, 33, 35, 36, 50
    Due: Monday, October 19, 1998
  15. Do the following problems using Mathematica, and hand in a paper copy of your Mathematica notebook:
    1. Number 17, Section 2.2, Page 44
    2. Number 17, Section 2.3, Page 52
    3. Number 1, Section 4.5, Page 180
    Due: Friday, October 23, 1998

  16. Section 4.6: 3, 5, 6, 9, 18, 21, 22, 33, 36
    Due: Monday, October 19, 1998
  17. Section 4.7: 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15
    Due: Monday, October 19, 1998
  18. Section 4.8: 7, 13, 15, 16, 21, 28, 42
    Due: Wednesday, October 21, 1998
  19. Section 4.9: 5, 10, 19, 23, 24, 28
    Due: Friday, October 23, 1998

  20. Section 4.10: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 18, 26
    Due: Monday, November 2, 1998
  21. Section 7.2: 3, 5, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 29 (parts a, b, c, and d)
    Due: Monday, November 9, 1998
  22. Section 7.3: 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 31, 35
    Due: Monday, November 9, 1998

  23. Section 7.4: 7, 8, 11, 15, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 32
    Due: Monday, November 16, 1998

  24. Section 7.5: 2, 3, 7, 8, 21, 22, 23
    Due: Monday, November 16, 1998

  25. Do the following problems using Mathematica:
    Section 7.2, problems 7, 13, 15
    Section 7.4, problems 9, 23, 25
    Section 7.4, Problems 13, 17, 19
    This assignment will be worth 15 points.
    Due: Wednesday, November 25, 1998
  26. Section 7.6: 3, 4, 7, 8, 13, 14, 17, 21, 22, 33, 36, 49, 50, 51
    Due: November 18, 1998
    Due date extended to Friday, November 20, 1998.
    Note: I will not grade problems 49, 50, and 51 or any problem that specifically mentions periodic functions.

  27. Section 9.2: 5, 13, 16, 17, 27, 28, 29, 32, 39, 41
    Due: December 7, 1998
  28. Section 9.3: 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 14, 16, 19, 22
    Due: December 7, 1998
  29. Section 9.4: 7, 9, 11, 14, 25, 35
    Due: December 9, 1998
    Problem 35 is optional.
  30. Section 9.5: 1, 3, 13(c)
    I will not collect this assigment

Exams

Midterm I: Monday, September 28, 1998.

Midterm II: Monday, October 26, 1998.

Midterm III: Monday, November 23, 1998.

Final exam: Tuesday, December 15, 1998, 10:15 A.M.-12:15 P.M. in the usual classroom.


Textbook

We are using Fundamentals of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems: Second Edition, by R. Kent Nagle and Edward B. Saff (Addison-Wesley)

Links

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Notes on Web Page

Contact Person: Larry Peterson
E-mail: lawrence.peterson@und.nodak.edu
Phone: (701) 777-4609
Date of most recent update: 21 March 2003
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