Math 308: Differential Equations

Fall 2007

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@messiah.edu

Office: Frey 327

Office Hours: M 2-3, W 9-11, 2-3, F 12-1

Textbook: Zill, Differential Equations with Modeling Applications (eighth edition).

Class Meetings: MWF 3:00 - 3:50, Frey 345

Final Exam: 10:30-12:30, Monday December 17, 2007

Other Materials

• Syllabus (48KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Project 1 (54KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Project 2 (62KB pdf) LaTeX source
  • Data file (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) (13 KB ods)
  • Data file (Excel) (16 KB xls)
• Project 3 (51KB pdf) LaTeX source

Coming Attractions

9/12: Homework #1 due

Section 1.1 12, 13, 19 (just verify), 22, 25, 27b, 28a, 51, 54

9/19: Homework #2 due

Section 1.2 3, 4, 7, 35-38
Section 2.1 1, 5, 8 (do this one by hand)
Section 2.6 1, 2, 6 (just do h=.1)
Section 2.1 20, 21, 26, 30, 33, 39

9/26: Homework #3 due

Section 2.2 6, 10, 45
Section 2.3 5, 12, 17, 25, 46
Section 3.1 4, 5, 13, 27, 38, 40

9/28: Project #1 due

10/3: Homework #4 due

Section 3.2 1 (use a computer for integration in b), 3
Section 2.4 2, 3, 13, 25, 44
Section 2.5 18, 21, 37, 38

10/5

Exam I

10/10: Homework #5 due

Section 4.1 2, 3, 5 (ignore the "Theorem 4.1" bit), 14a,b, 31

10/17: Homework #6 due

Section 4.1 17, 19, 20, 21, 40
Section 4.2 2, 3, 6
Section 4.3 4, 7, 8, 18, 34

10/24: Homework #7 due

Section 4.3 13, 43-48
Section 5.1 3, 4, 21, 23
Section 4.4 1, 4, 5

10/26: Project #2 due

11/7: Homework #8 due

Section 4.4 8, 19
Section 4.5 1, 2, 5, 9, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 41, 44, 48, 51
Section 5.1 33, 45, 48

11/9

Exam II

11/14: Homework #9 due

Section 4.6 5, 11, 12, 30
Section 7.1 3, 4, 10, 12

11/28: Homework #10 due

Section 7.1 23, 25, 27, 32, 41b, 42, 46
Section 7.2 5, 12, 13, 15, 19, 20, 32, 37, 42, 44
Section 7.3 4, 8, 15, 22, 23, 40, 43, 44, 47, 49-54, 64

12/5: Homework #11 due

Section 7.4 1, 2, 6, 12
Section 7.5 1, 2, 4, 10

12/12: Homework #12 due

Section 7.4 19, 22, 28, 33, 37, 50, 51
Section 7.6 1, 4, 5
These extra problems (44KB PDF) LaTeX source

Homework #13, not collected

Section 9.2 3, 5, 7 (use a larger h value to make it less tedious)
Section 9.4 1, 2, 7, 9 (use Euler's method instead of RK4 for 7 and 9)

12/17, 10:30-12:30

Final Exam

Future Homework Assignments

These are the problems that are likely to appear on our homework assignments. They will get moved into particular dates in the "Coming Attractions" section above according to how quickly we move through the material.

Section 9.2 2, 3, 4