MA 262, Spring 2026: Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
This is a page to keep copies of some course documents and share some useful links.
Contacts and Office Hours
Dr. Taylor Daniels: Course instructor
Office Hours: 2:00pm–3:00pm, or by appointment.
Office: ET 314 (Purdue in Indianapolis)
Email: daniel84 followed by "at" and purdue dot edu
Chrisil Ouseph: TA for the 10:30am lecture class (Section 610)
Email: couseph followed by "at" and purdue dot edu
Shabaz Khan: TA for the 11:30am lecture class (Section 611)
Email: khan456 followed by "at" and purdue dot edu
Website: here
Lecture and recitation sections and times
Lectures:
M/W/F 10:30am–11:20am, room LE 105. (Section 610)
M/W/F 11:30am–12:20pm, room LE 105. (Section 611)
Recitations for students in the 10:30am lecture:
Thu 10:30am–11:20am, room SL 108. TA: Chrisil Ouseph (Section 612)
Thu 11:30am–12:20pm, room SL 108. TA: Chrisil Ouseph (Section 615)
Recitations for students in the 11:30am lecture:
Thu 1:30pm–2:20pm, room SL 108. TA: Shahbaz Khan (Section 614)
Thu 2:30pm–3:20pm, room SL 108. TA: Shahbaz Khan (Section 613)
Notes and Extras
Ch. 1: Basics; 1st-order ODEs
[L1] Intro to diff eq: Notes (class), Notes (html)
[L2-3 (1)] Slope fields and solutions: Notes (class), Notes (html)
[L2-3 (2)] More on solutions: Notes (class), Notes (html)
– (Extra) Handling unknown constants: Notes
[L4] Separable eqs: Notes (class), Notes (html)
– Solutions vocab chart: Notes
[L5] 1st-order linear eqs (part 1): Notes (class), Notes (html)
Course Calendar
Colors:
■ - Lessons
■ - HW & Quizzes
■ - Exams
Notes:
Lessons are listed as
[L〈#〉] 〈book section #〉 〈topic(s)〉,
and HW #'s indicate the material's corresponding lesson number. Some lessons have parts (1) and (2), but there is still only one homework associated to the lesson. Some book sections/topics are spread over more than one lesson.
Quiz topics are shown using
[Q 〈#〉],
where 〈#〉 lists the lesson/homework numbers covered by the quiz.
Exams list the lessons covered, e.g., [L1-14].