Math 351: Elementary Differential Equations

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I am teaching two sections of this course as indicated below.

Section number: 01

Room and hours: 8:00 A.M.-8:50 A.M., MWF, 302 Witmer Hall

Section number: 02

Room and hours: 9:00 A.M.-9:50 A.M., MWF, 302 Witmer Hall

Spring 1999 office hours: click here.

• Section 1.1: 1-10
  Due: Wednesday, January 13, 1999.
• Section 1.2: 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26
  Due: Wednesday, January 20, 1999.
• Section 1.3: 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15
  Due: Wednesday, January 20, 1999
• Section 1.4: 1, 3, 4, 7
  Due: Wednesday, January 20, 1999
• Section 2.2: 7, 10, 11, 14, 19, 20, 33, 36
  Due: Monday, January 25, 1999
• Section 2.3: 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 20
  Due: Friday, January 29, 1999
• Section 2.4: 5, 11, 13, 14, 17, 22, 23
  Due: Monday, February 1, 1999
• Section 3.2: 1, 4, 7, 9, 14
  Due: Friday, February 5, 1999 (after the exam)
• Section 1.4: 5
  Use Mathematica, and hand in a copy of your notebook.
  Due: Monday, February 8, 1999
• Section 4.2: 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 23, 26, 27, 34
  Due: Wednesday, February 17, 1999
• Section 4.3: 1, 2, 7, 10, 14, 16
  Due: Wednesday, February 17, 1999
• Section 4.5: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 16, 33, 34, 35
  Due: Monday, February 22, 1999
• Section 4.6: 3, 6, 9, 18, 21, 22, 33, 34, 38
  Due: Monday, February 22, 1999
• Section 4.7: 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14
  Due: Wednesday, February 24, 1999
• Section 4.8: 7, 13, 15, 16, 21, 28, 42
  Due: Wednesday, February 24, 1999
• Section 4.9: 5, 10, 19, 24
  Due: Friday, February 26, 1999
• Do the following problems using DSolve on Mathematica. Hand in a copy of your notebook.

  Number 17, Section 2.2, Page 44
  Number 17, Section 2.3, Page 52
  Number 1, Section 4.5, Page 180
  

  I have a handout which will help you with this assignment.
  Due: Wednesday, March 3, 1999.

• Section 7.2: 5, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23
  Due: Wednesday, March 17, 1999
• Section 7.3: 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17
  Due: Monday, March 22, 1999
• Section 7.4: 7, 8, 11, 15, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27
  Due: Monday, March 22, 1999
• Section 7.5: 2, 3, 7, 8, 14, 22, 36
  Due: Monday, March 29, 1999
• Section 7.6: 3, 4, 7, 8, 13, 14, 17, 21, 22, 33, 36, 49, 50, 51
  Due: Wednesday, March 31, 1999
• Section 7.7: 3, 4, 9, 12, 23, 25, 26
  Due: Wednesday, April 7, 1999

• Do the following problems using Mathematica.

  Section 7.2, problems 7, 13, 15
  

  Section 7.4, problems 9, 23, 25, 13, 17, 19
  

  Hand in a paper copy of your Mathematica notebook. I have a handout for this assignment, which you can pick up if you have not already done so. Do the problems using the commands described in the handout. This assignment is worth fifteen points. This assignment is due on Monday, April 12, 1999. This due date differs from the due date I initially announced.

• Section 9.2: 1, 4(a), 5, 13, 27, 28, 29, 34, 37
  Due: April 19, 1999
• Section 9.3: 3, 9, 10, 14, 16, 19, 22
  Due: April 26, 1999
• Section 9.4: 1, 7, 9, 14, 31, 32
  Due: April 26, 1999
• Do problems 13, 23, and 25 from Section 9.2. Use Mathematica, and hand in a copy of your Mathematica notebook. I have a handout that you can pick up which will help you with this assignment.
  Due: April 26, 1999
• Section 9.5: 1, 2, 3
  Due: April 28, 1999
  Remark: You can pick up your papers after I finish grading them.
• Section 9.6: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9
  Due: April 28, 1999
  Remark: You can pick up your papers after I finish grading them.

Midterm I: Wednesday, February 3, 1999

Midterm II: Monday, March 1, 1999

Midterm III: Friday, April 9, 1999

The date of the third midterm differs from the date announced in the syllabus.

Final exam for Section 01 (8:00, MWF):

Monday, May 3, 1999, 8:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M. in the usual classroom.

Final exam for Section 02 (9:00, MWF):

Tuesday, May 4, 1999, 1:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M. in the usual classroom.

Tentative Schedule

Click here to see the tentative schedule for the course. This information will also be available in the class syllabus.

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

Some of our class assignments will involve Mathematica. Mathematica is a computer program which is available in the Math Computer Lab in Room 2 in the basement of Witmer Hall. Click here to go to the Math Computer Lab home page.

Mathematica may also be available in other computer labs on the campus.

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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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