MA 304, Section 144, Spring 2018Differential Equations And Analysis Of Nonlinear Systems For Engineering And The Sciences
Lecture: UNIV 119, TR 03:00PM-04:15PM
Instructor: Xiangxiong Zhang
Office: MATH 406
Email: zhan1966@purdue.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:30pm, or by appointment
- Announcement
- The final exam will take place on Fri 05/04, 1:00p - 3:00p at BRWN 1154.
- MATLAB scripts
- Plotting functions/polynomials
- Euler's methods for linear ODE
- Plotting direction fields for nonlinear 2 by 2 ODE system
- Plotting Phase Portraits for nonlinear 2 by 2 ODE system
- An interactive code to plot phase portraits
- Course information
- Textbook: Boyce-DiPrima, Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, 10th edition, with WebAssign Plus 1 Semester Set.
- Online Homework: WebAssign (WebAssign help, basic WebAssign information). Online homework is due before 11:40pm on each Thursday. Handwritten homework is due in class on each Thursday before 4pm. Any homework slipped into my office will be regarded as late homework thus not accepted.
- Options for students purchasing textbook and access code: (i) purchase book-and-access code together from Purdue bookstores; (ii) purchase access code from WebAssign (without eBook ~$45, with eBook ~$90, you can purchase the textbook from any other vendors).
- Class webpage (http://www.math.purdue.edu/~zhan1966/teaching/304.html).
- Syllabus.
- Emergency Preparedness Briefing.
- Basic course policies including attendance and grief absence.
- Schedule, handwritten homework assignments,
and due dates ( subject
to change).
| Week | Dates | Sections in Book | Handwritten Homework | Due Dates |
| 1 | 01/09 | 5.1 | 5.2: 14(a)(b) | 01/18 |
| 01/11 | 5.2 | |||
| 2 | 01/16 | 5.3 | 5.4: 11 | 01/25 |
| 01/18 | 5.4 | |||
| 3 | 01/23 | 5.4, 5.5 | 5.5: 6 (for (c) and (d), only find the first three terms in the series) |
02/01 |
| 01/25 | 5.5, 7.1 | |||
| 4 | 01/30 | 7.2 | 7.3: 25 |
02/08 |
| 02/01 | 7.3 | |||
| 5 | 02/06 | 7.4, 7.5 | 7.5: 18 |
02/15 |
| 02/08 | 7.5, 7.6 | |||
| 6 | 02/13 | 7.7, 7.8 | NO HW due on 02/22 |
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| 02/15 | Review | |||
| 7 | 02/20 | Midterm I | 7.7: 17 (a)(c) |
03/01 |
| 02/22 | 7.8 | |||
| 8 | 02/27 | 7.8, 7.9 | 7.9: 1 |
03/08 |
| 03/01 | review of Chapter 7; 8.1 | |||
| 9 | 03/06 | 8.2, 9.1, 9.2 | 9.2: 15(a), 21(a) |
03/22 |
| 03/08 | 9.3 | |||
| 10 | 03/13 | NO CLASS |
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| 03/15 | NO CLASS | |||
| 11 | 03/20 | 9.3, 9.4 |
9.5: 13(a)(b) |
03/29 |
| 03/22 | 9.5; 10.1 |
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| 12 | 03/27 | 10.1, 10.2 | 10.1: 15 |
04/05 |
| 03/29 | Review | |||
| 13 | 04/03 | Midterm II | 10.2: 15 |
04/12 |
| 04/05 | 10.2, 10.3 | |||
| 14 | 04/10 | 10.4, 10.5 |
Last Handwritten HW: 10.5: 8; 10.6: 9(a) |
04/19 |
| 04/12 | 10.6 | |||
| 15 | 04/17 | 10.7 |
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| 04/19 | 10.8 |
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| 16 | 04/24 | Review |
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| 04/26 | Review | |||
| 17 | 05/01 | Final Exam | ||
| 05/03 | ||||