Marcelo Mendes Disconzi

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. Students taking this course for graduate credit should consult the MATH 5610 syllabus.

Textbook: Fundamentals of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, 7th edition, by Nagle, Saff, and Snider (required). Student's solutions manual (optional).

Classes meet on TR, 9:35–10:50am, at Stevenson Center 1117 (1st floor of the Mathematics Building).

Exams

Description	Date	Location and Time	Remarks
Test 1	Feb 13	in class	Covering all material discussed up to (including) section 4.5. Practice test. Solutions. Test solutions.
Test 2	Mar 29	in class	Covering all material discussed from (including) section 4.6 to (including) section 9.8, with the exception of Cauchy-Euler equations (i.e., Cauchy-Euler will not be on the test), plus sections 1.3 and 1.4. Practice test. Solutions. Test solutions.
Final Exam	May 1	9am, SC 1117	The test will be cumulative with an emphasis on chapter 12. The test will cover all material, except for Cauchy-Euler equations in section 4.7, sections 1.3, 1.4, 5.2, 5.3, non-conservative systems in section 12.4, and section 12.7. Practice final. Solutions. Test solutions.

Schedule
Below a schedule for the course (for the academic calendar, click here). 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 a computer symbol in the textbook, are optional.

Here are the class notes. These will be updated as the course progresses.

Date	Section	HW problems	Remarks
Jan 9	1.1, 1.2	Appendix A: 1-7 (odd), 15, 17, 29-33 (odd) 1.1: 1-16	Appendix A is a review of calculus Examples
Jan 11	1.2, 2.2	1.2: 1-7 (odd), 19-27 (odd) 2.2: 1, 3, 11-15 (odd)	HW 1.1, 1.2, and 2.2 are due on Jan 23 Examples
Jan 16	2.3	2.3: 11-21 (odd), 35, 36	HW 2.3 is due on Jan 25 Examples
Jan 18	2.4	2.4: 1-8, 9-17 (odd), 27, 30	HW 2.4 is due on Jan 25 Examples
Jan 23	3.2, 4.1	3.2: 1, 3, 5 4.1: 1-6
Jan 25	4.2	4.2: 1-11 (odd), 16, 18, 21, 26	HW 3.2, 4.1, and 4.2 is due on Feb 1st
Jan 30	4.3	4.3: 1-17 (odd)
Feb 1	4.4, 4.5	4.4: 1-8, 9-17 (odd), 27-32	HW 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5 is due on Feb 13 Examples
Feb 6	4.5, 4.6	4.5: 1, 2, 9-12 4.6: 5-15 (odd)
Feb 8	4.7	4.7: 10-19	Examples Examples HW 4.6 and 4.7 is due on Feb 20
Feb 13	Test 1
Feb 15	5.1, 5.2	5.2: 4-10, 15, 25
Feb 20	1.3, 1.4	1.3: 1, 2, 5, 6, 10	Notes on existence, direction fields, and Euler's method Examples with Mathematica
Feb 22	1.4, 5.3	1.4: 1, 3, 6, 12, 13 5.3: 1-7	HW 5.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 5.3 is due on Mar 1
Feb 27	9.1, 9.2, 9.3	9.1: 1-6, 9, 10 9.2: 1-6	Linear algebra examples
Mar 1	9.3, 9.4	9.3: 6-8, 11, 15, 29, 41-43 9.4: 3-21 (odd), 25, 27, 28	HW: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4 is due on Mar 15
Mar 3-11	N/A		Spring break
Mar 13	9.5	9.5: 13-25 (odd), 37, 49	Examples
Mar 15	9.6	9.6: 1, 3, 11-21 (odd)	Examples
Mar 20	9.7	9.7: 1-6, 11, 12	Examples
Mar 22	9.8	9.8: 1-6, 12, 17, 26	Examples HW 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, and 9.8 is due on Mar 29
Mar 27	5.4, 12.1	5.4: 3-6, 10, 15, 28
Mar 29	Test 2
Apr 3	12.2	12.2: 3-12, 15, 21, 26
Apr 5	12.3	12.3: 1-7 (odd), 9, 10, 15, 17, 18	Examples HW 5.4, 12.2, 12.3, and 12.4 is due on Apr 17
Apr 10	12.4	12.4: 7-17 (odd)
Apr 12	12.5	12.5: 1-17
Apr 17	12.6	12.6: 1-4, 11, 13-23 (odd)	Examples
Apr 19	12.7	12.7: 3, 7, 11
May 1	Final exam