Math 262: Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential Equations

Organizational meeting

SPRING 2006

DIV 02 SEC 01

Professor Steve Bell
OFFICE: Math 740
OFFICE PHONE: (765)-494-1956
OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday, Thursday 1:00-2:30 PM or by appointment
E-MAIL: bell AT math DOT purdue DOT edu
URL: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~bell

GRADER: Paul Luca
MR. Luca's OFFICE: MATH 717
MR. Luca's OFFICE HOURS: Thursday, 9:30-11:30 AM
E-MAIL: mluca AT math DOT purdueDOT edu

TEXTBOOK: An introduction to differential equations and linear algebra, by Stephen W. Goode, Prenctice Hall, SECOND EDITION

Review material for Exam 1.

Exam 1 and solutions

Review material for Exam 2.

Exam 2 and solutions

FINAL EXAM, Monday, May 1, 2006, 10:20 AM - 12:20 PM
CL 50, Room 224

Review material for the Final Exam.

You can find a bunch of old final exams by going to the

MATH 262 Home Page

and clicking on PAST EXAMS. Then select MA 262 in the drop down menu.

Professor Cumming has broken down the old final exams by topic to help students review specific subjects. Click Review of Course Topics to see the handout.

Grading policies

Weekly homework will be collected each Tuesday in recitation. Only 5 problems will be graded from each weekly assignment. Each problem will be worth five points and so each homework assignment will be graded on a scale of 0 to 25. Your two lowest homework scores will be dropped before final grades are computed. Consequently, late homework will not be accepted.

There will be a short quiz worth 10 points at the end of each recitation session. Your lowest quiz score will be dropped before final grades are computed.

There will be two in-class midterm exams and one final exam. (No notes, books, or calculators will be allowed during exams.) Each hour exam will be worth 100 points, the homework and quiz grade will be scaled to 100 points, and the final will be worth 200 points, making a total of 500 points for the whole course.

MAPLE

MAPLE is a computer program that works much like the latest hand held mathematical calculators -- only much more powerful. I encourage you to play around with it and to use it on your homework.

Any PC or Mac lab on campus should have the latest version of MAPLE installed. Here is a little Maple tutorial that will help get you started.

Sample MAPLE demos

The same MAPLE demos in .mws form

Save these files as TEXT files with a .mws extension. To view them, start a MAPLE session and then OPEN the files (from the FILE menue). You will need to push RETURN at the end of lines ending with semicolons to execute the commands.

Some nice MATLAB M-files.

You can get the M-files associated to Polking's book about ODE's using MATLAB. Go to Download MATLAB ODE software (Polking's book) to get the latest versions for MATLAB Version 7.