Math 308: Differential Equations

Spring 2009

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@messiah.edu

Office: Frey 327

Office Hours: M 1-3, W 2-4, F 8-9

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

Class Meetings: Section 1: MWF 9:10 - 10:10, Section 2: MWF 10:20 - 11:20 Frey 345

Final Exam: Section 1: 10:30-12:30, Monday May 11. Section 2: 8:00-10:00, Friday May 8

Other Materials

• Syllabus (63KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Project 1 (62KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Project 2 (72KB pdf) LaTeX source
  • Data file (Comma-separated) (6 KB text)
  • Data file (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) (13 KB ods)
  • Data file (Excel) (22 KB xls)
• Project 3 (47KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Project 4 (68KB pdf) LaTeX source

Coming Attractions

2/11: Homework #1 due

Section 1.1 12, 13, 19 (just verify), 22, 25, 29, 31, 55, 58
Section 1.2 3, 4, 7, 35-38
Section 2.1 1, 5, 8 (do this one by hand), 20, 21, 26, 30, 33, 40 (assume g is positive)

2/18: Homework #2 due

Section 2.6 1, 2, 6 (just do h=.1)
Section 2.2 6, 7, 10, 19, 47
Section 2.3 5, 12, 17, 25, 46

2/25: Homework #3 due

Section 3.1 4, 5, 12, 29, 40
Section 3.2 1 (use a computer for integration in b), 3
Section 2.4 2, 3, 13, 25, 44

2/27: Project #1 due

 

3/4: Homework #4 due

Section 2.5 18, 21, 37, 38
Section 4.1 2, 3, 5, 14a,b, 17, 19, 20, 21, 31, 40, 42

3/6: Exam #1

 

3/11: Homework #5 due

Section 4.2 2, 3, 6
Section 4.3 4, 7, 8, 13, 18, 23, 24, 26, 34, 43-48, 55

3/13: Project #2 due

 

3/25: Homework #6 due

Section 5.1 3, 4, 21, 23
Section 4.4 1, 4, 5, 8, 19, 31, 41

4/1: Homework #7 due

Section 4.5 1, 2, 5, 9, 12, 13, 15, 19, 41, 44, 48, 51
Section 5.1 33, 45, 48

4/8: Homework #8 due

Section 4.6 3, 11, 12
Section 7.1 3, 4, 10, 12, 23, 25, 27, 32, 41b, 42
Section 7.2 5, 12, 13, 15, 19, 20, 32, 37, 42, 44

4/15: Homework #9 due

Section 7.3 4, 8, 15, 22, 23, 40, 43, 44, 47, 49-54, 64

4/17: Exam #2, Project #3 due

 

4/29: Homework #10 due

Section 7.4 1, 2, 6, 12, 19, 22, 28, 33, 37, 46
Section 7.5 1, 2, 4, 10

5/4: Project #4 due

 

Homework #11 (not collected)

Section 7.4 49, 51, 52
Section 9.2 3, 10, 14a (use a larger h value to make these less tedious)

5/8: Section 2 final exam: 8:00 - 10:00

 

5/11: Section 1 final exam: 10:30 - 12:30