Course Webpage

Course Description:

Course description: A pdf for course syllabus

MatLab Tutorial for Beginners:

pdf for matlab tutorial

MatLab Tutorial Hours

Supplementary Materials:

1st pdf for teaching supplementary

2nd pdf for teaching supplementary

More Matlab tools from Peter Petropoulos:

Note that if Matlab2015a does not work, please use Matlab2014b.

• dfield8.m (for MATLAB 2014 version) to create direction field for 1st order ODE

• dfield8.m (for MATLAB 2015 version) to creat direction field for 1st order ODE

• dfield.jar (Jarva code) to create direction field for 1st order ODE

• odesolve.m to solve ode's

• pplane8.m to create direction field for higher order ODE

• pplane.jar (Jarva code) to create direction field for higher order ODE

• dfield.pdf a tutorial to use dfield8.m

For more details on the Java versions of dfield and pplane, go to this web page

1st MATLAB assignment, due in class during the week of February 22:

• main MATLAB code

• function for right hand side

• Problem 1(a)

• Problem 2, y0 = 0.5

• Problem 2, y0 = 1.0

• A pdf for the example in the video tutorial

• A video tutorial (mov file) for dfield8.m

• Quiz 1 MATH222-004, MATH222-006,

• Quiz 2 MATH222-004, MATH222-006,

• Quiz 3 MATH222-004, MATH222-006,

• Quiz in the week of Feb 29 MATH222-006

• Quiz on March 7 MATH222-006

• Quiz on April 8 MATH222-006

• Linear system of first order differential equation (2 by 2)
• Fourier series of a periodic function
• Boundary value problem, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions
• First order IVP, including mixing problems (there will be a modeling problem on mixing)
• Second order linear differential equation with constant coefficients, reduction of order
• Second order linear nonhomogeneous differential equation
• Power series solution
• Laplace transform in solving linear second order nonhomogeneous IVP

• Grading guidelines for Exam 1, Feb 2016

• Grading guidelines for Exam 2, Mar 2016

• Grading guidelines for Exam 3, April 2016

• Exam 2 from March 2014

• Exam 2 from October 2015

• Exam 3 from April 2014

• Exam 3 from November 2015

• more Exam from 2012 and 2015

• Final Exam Dec 2015, Solutions to Final Exam Dec 2015

• Solutions for Final Exam Dec 2007 from Hatim Nomani

• Solutions for Final Exam May 2005 from Ramon Salvador

• Solutions for Final Exam Dec 2004 from Vincent Porcelli