Math 334 A1 Fall 2010

Math 334 A1: Introduction to Differential Equations (Fall 2010)

NEW!! Office hours before final:

Friday 12:30 -- 16:30;
Tuesday 9:30 -- 14:00.

NEW!! See where you are in the class after two midterms!

IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT ABOUT GRADING:

As double scheme is not allowed by the university, we will discard the 2nd scheme. More specifically, the weights are:
Homework 10%; Midterm 1: 15%; Midterm 2: 15%; Final: 60%.
Anyone sees this announcement please inform your friends asap.

Course Calendar


Instructor / Office / Phone #	Xinwei Yu / 527 CAB / (780)4925731
Email / Webpage	xinwei.yu@gmail.com / http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~xinweiyu
Location / Time / Office Hours	DP 6069 / MWF 12pm - 12:50pm / MWF 1pm-2pm or by appointment

Course Information

Important dates.

Homeworks (temporary): Sep. 24, Oct. 8, Nov. 5, Nov. 26, Dec. 8. Note that the last one is on Wednesday.
Midterms (temporary): Monday Oct. 18, 2010; Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Both in class.
Final: Wednesday Dec. 15, 2010; 2pm-4pm; ESB 3 27.
Deferred exam: Saturday Jan. 15, 2011; 9am-noon. CAB 357 (Requires approval from your Faculty Office).

Download course syllabus.

Course Material

Required Problems

Important: Drafts of lecture notes will be posted before the lectures. However please refrain from printing them as major revision may occur as they get lectured. The revised versions will be posted after the lectures.

Topics	Homeworks(Solutions)	Lecture Notes
Introduction		Introduction (Updated)
Solving 1st order ODEs	Homework 1 (Solution, Statistics)	Solving 1st order ODEs (Updated)
Solving 2nd and higher order linear ODEs	Homework 2 (Solution, Statistics)	Solving 2nd order ODEs (Updated)
Series solutions	Homework 3 (Solution, Statistics)	Series Solutions (Updated; The part on solving equations at singular points is totally re-written)
Laplace transform method	Homework 4 (Solution, Statistics)	Method of Laplace Transform (Draft)
1st order systems	Homework 5 (Solution, Statistics)	First Order Systems (Updated)

Midterm 1: Solutions; Statistics;
Midterm 2: Solutions; Statistics;
Final Statistics;
Overall Grade Statistics

Useful Stuff

Encyclopedic Differential Equation Website: Equation World. (NEW!)
Khan Academy: Differential equations;
MIT Open Courses: Differential equations;
Other online videos that you may find helpful:

Khan Academy: Linear algebra, Calculus,
MIT 18.01 Single variable calculus: Video lectures;
MIT 18.02 Multivariable calculus: Video lectures;
MIT 18.06 Linear algebra: Video lectures;

Other online resources:

Slope field plotter: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/JODE/JOdeApplet.html.
Paul's online Math notes: http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ (Calculus I/II/III, Linear Algebra, DE)

Wolfram Alpha: Play with it and get comfortable facing differential equations!

Need help to start? Type

what is cosh(x) (then "enter" of course), or
differentiate cosh(x), or
solve y'' + y = 0, or
...

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