Steve Bell's Math 266 class, Spring 2026

MA 26600 930 (CRN 35485)    MWF 1:30-2:20 pm   in BRNG 2280

Ordinary Differential Equations

Professor Steve Bell OFFICE: Math 750 OFFICE PHONE: (765)-494-1497 E-MAIL: bell AT purdue DOT you_know_where OFFICE HOURS: T,Th 2:00-3:00 pm and via Piazza and by appointment

Textbook: Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems: Computing
and Modeling 6e, Edwards, Penney, and Calvis
Plus MyLab with Pearson eText - 18-Week Access Card

bundled with online homework: Pearson MyLab,

Important links

• The AFTERMATH -- lecture notes and videos of Bell's tablet PC lectures

• The MA 266 Assignment sheet

• The MA 266 calendar

• The MA 266 Groundrules

• A quick student guide to Pearson MyLab Math

• Bell's Bell's MA 266 Piazza page

• Central MA 266 Home Page for all 266 sections at

  http://www.math.purdue.edu/MA266

Final Exam

The Final Exam was on Wednesday, May 6, 8:00-10:00 am
in the Elliott Hall of Music.

It was a 20 question multiple choice exam covering the whole course.
It was closed books, no notes, no electronics or phones, etc. The
last page of the exam was this Table of Laplace Transforms.

Practice problems are posted on the Main MA 266 Home Page at

http://www.math.purdue.edu/MA266

(Find answers on the last page.)

Here is direct link to the Practice problems

Exam 1 was on Tuesday, February 24 in the Elliott Hall of Music.
It covered Lessons 1-16. Doing practice problems 1-16 was a
good way to prepare.

Exam 2 was on Tuesday, April 7 in the Elliott Hall of Music.
It covered Lessons 17-29. Doing practice problems 17-27 was
a good way to prepare.

Reviewing all the Practice Problems, including the new problems,
28-35 on the Laplace transform, and going over the solutions to
Exams 1 and 2, which are posted in the AFTERMATH, is a good way to
prepare for the final exam.

Resources

Right click and save the m-file eul.m or click on this text file
and copy the text to a file named eul.m for use with MATLAB

... and here is a Matlab tutorial for using eul.m to implement Euler's method

Find more matlab tutorials at the Main MA 266 home page

A LaTeX tutorial for Piazza to be viewed in Adobe Reader in full screen mode a page at a time.

A quick MAPLE tutorial