MA 3030, Section 075/072, Fall 2016

Differential Equations and Partial Differential Equations for Engineering and the Sciences

Lectures: UNIV 119, MWF Section 075 (10:30 am - 11:20 am); Section 072 (11:30 am - 12:20 pm)

Instructor: Xiangxiong Zhang

Office: MATH 406

Email: zhan1966@purdue.edu

Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:30pm, or by appointment

• Announcement
  • Final Exam will take place at 10:30a - 12:30p on  Fri 12/16 at EE 129. Please follow the Seating Map to find your seat. This formula sheet will be provided in the final exam paper.
  • NO CLASSES on Sep. 5 (Labor Day), Oct. 10 (Oct Break) and Nov. 23-25 (Thanksgiving).
  • Tentative Midterm Dates: Oct 03 (Midterm I) and Nov 14 (Midterm II).
  
  
• 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 Wednesday before 12pm noon. 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/303.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	08/22	5.1	5.2: 14(a)(b)	08/31
	08/24	5.1, 5.2
	08/26	5.2
2	08/29	5.2	5.4: 11, 35	09/07
	08/31	5.3
	09/02	5.4
3	09/05	NO CLASS	5.5: 6 Part(c)(d) only need to find the first three terms of each series solution	09/14
	09/07	5.4
	09/09	5.5
4	09/12	6.1	6.2: 23	09/21
	09/14	6.2
	09/16	6.2, 6.3
5	09/19	6.3	6.4: 10(a)	09/28
	09/21	6.4
	09/23	6.5
6	09/26	6.6	NO Handwritten HW	10/05
	09/28	7.1, 7.2
	09/30	Review
7	10/03	Midterm I	7.3: 25	10/12
	10/05	Midterm Solutions; 7.3
	10/07	7.4
8	10/10	NO CLASS	7.5: 18	10/19
	10/12	7.5
	10/14	7.6
9	10/17	7.7	7.7: 17 (a)(c)	10/26
	10/19	7.8
	10/21	7.9
10	10/24	7.9	7.9: 1	11/02
	10/26	8.1
	10/28	8.2
11	10/31	10.1	10.1:15	11/09
	11/02	10.2
	11/04	10.3
12	11/07	10.4	10.2: 15	11/16
	11/09	10.5
	11/11	Review
13	11/14	Midterm II	10.5: 8 (due on 11/30)	11/30
	11/16	10.5
	11/18	10.5, Midterm Solutions
14	11/21	Review	NO HW Assignment
	11/23	Thanksgiving
	11/25
15	11/28	10.6	Last Handwritten HW: 10.6: 9(a)	Dec. 07
	11/30	10.7
	12/02	10.7
16	12/05	10.8
	12/07	Review
	12/09	Review
17	12/12	Final Exam
	12/14
	12/16

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