General Information.
For a description of the course, including the grading policy, consult the course syllabus. Students are responsible for reading the syllabus and being aware of all the course and university policies.

Textbook: Fundamentals of Differential Equations, Nagle, Saff, Snider, 8th edition.

Lecture 07 meets on Tuesday and Thursday, 09:35am–10:50am, Stevenson Center 1308.

Contact Information and Office hours.
Lecturer's office: Stevenson Center 1515.
Lecturer's email: marcelo.disconzi@vanderbilt.edu.
Lecture's office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-4pm, or by appointment. 
Lecturer's office phone: 322-7147.
General Math Office: Stevenson Center 1326, phone: 322-6672.

Resources and extra materials.
If you need to brush up on your Calculus skills, there is a nice set of lecture notes by Gregory Naber, containing several examples, at:

http://www.gregnaber.com/lectures/calculus/

If you learn things best by seeing tons of examples, you should have a look at the textbooks "Schaum's outline of Differential Equations." They can be found in the library or bought at a reasonable price at Amazon.

Exams.

Description	Date and time	Location	Remarks
Test 1	Thu, Feb 27	in class	Covering all material up to section 4.7. Practice midterm. Here the solutions. Review session on Monday, February 24, 6pm, at SC 1432.
Test 2	Thu, Apr 3	in class	Covering chapter 7 and section 8.2. Practice midterm. And here the solutions. Review session on Friday, March 28, 6pm, SC 1432.
Final exam	Wed, Apr 23, 9-11am	SC 1308	Covering all the material. Here is a practice final. Here the solutions.

Announcements.

Schedule.
Below is a schedule for the course. This is subject to change, and therefore, you should check this webpage frequently. Unless stated otherwise, all problems are from the textbook. The due date for each assignment will be posted as the course progresses. Problems that require a computer, indicated with computer symbol in the textbook, are optional.

Date	Sections	HW problems	Remarks
Jan 7	1.1	1.1: 1-15 (odd)	Examples
Jan 9	1.2	1.2: 1-11 (odd), 15, 19-27 (odd), 30, 31	Examples
Jan 14	2.2	2.2: 1-33 (odd), 34, 37, 40	Examples
Jan 16	2.3 2.4	2.3: 7-21 (odd), 29, 31, 35, 36 2.4: 1-27 (odd)	Examples Examples HW due: problems of sections 1.1 and 1.2.
Jan 20			Last day to drop the class with no grade.
Jan 21	2.6	2.6: 1-29 (odd)	Examples
Jan 23	3.2 3.3	3.2: 1, 3, 5 3.3: 1, 3, 5, 7	HW due: problems of sections 2.2 and 2.3.
Jan 28	3.5 4.2	3.5: 1,3 4.2: 1-25 (odd)
Jan 30	4.3 4.4	4.3: 1-27 (odd) 4.4: 1-31 (odd)	Summary Examples HW due: problems of sections 2.4, 2.6, and 3.2.
Feb 4	4.6	4.6: 1-17 (odd)
Feb 6	4.6 4.7	4.7: 1-19 (odd)	Examples HW due: problems of sections 3.3, 3.5, and 4.2.
Feb 11	7.2	7.2: 1-27 (odd), 29a, 29b	Examples
Feb 13	7.3 7.4	7.3: 1-27 (odd) 7.4: 1-35 (odd)
Feb 18	7.5	7.5: 1-27 (odd)	Examples HW due: problems of sections 4.3 and 4.4.
Feb 20	7.6	7.6: 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 27
Feb 25	7.7	7.7: 1-19 (odd)	Examples HW due: problems of sections 4.6 and 4.7
Feb 27	Midterm 1
Mar 4	Spring Break
Mar 6	Spring Break
Mar 11	7.8	7.8: 1-23 (odd)	Examples
Mar 13	7.9	7.9: 1-23 (odd)	HW due: problems of sections 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4.
Mar 14			Last day to drop with a W in the course
Mar 18	8.2	8.2: 1-35 (odd)
Mar 20	8.3	8.3: 1-27 (odd), 35	HW due: problems of sections 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, and 7.9.
Mar 25	8.4	8.4: 1-29 (odd)
Mar 27	8.6 8.7	8.6: 1-37 (odd) 8.7: 1-19 (odd)	Examples HW due: problems of section 8.2.
Apr 1	9.4	9.4: 1-25 (odd)
Apr 3	Midterm 2
Apr 8	9.5	9.5: 1-25 (odd), 37, 45, 49	Examples HW due: problems of sections 8.3, and 8.4.
Apr 10	9.6	9.6: 1-21 (odd)	Examples HW due: problems of sections 8.6, and 8.7.
Apr 15	Review
Apr 17	Review		HW due: problems of chapter 9.
Apr 23	Final Exam

Anonymous feedback.
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