Math 331 Section 1, Spring 2008
Instructor :Robert Gardner
Office : 1430 LGRT
Phone : 545-0029
E-Mail : gardner@math.umass.edu
Homepage:
http://www.math.umass.edu/~gardner
Class/course TA: Garret Cahill
office: LGRT 1323N
ph 5-0873
cahill@math.umass.edu
office hours:
RG: (1430 LGRT) Monday 12:15-2:15
GC: (LGRT 1323N) Tuesday 12:45-2:15 and 4-5
RG: (1430 LGRT) Wednesday 9:10 -10
GC: (LGRT 1323N) Thursday 12:45-2:15 and 5-6
Class Meeting : MWF 10:10 - 11:00 LGRC A 301
Garret will lead a
(non-mandatory) recitation session relating to homework problems, etc
on Thursdays from 4-5pm
in LGRC A301
Syllabus: This course is an
introduction to ordinary differential equations. The topics covered in
this class are:
- First order linear and nonlinear equations, both with analytic
and geometric methods.
- Systems of linear differential equations and second order
equations. Forcing and resonances.
- Laplace transform methods.
Prerequisites: Math 132,
corequisite are Math 233.
Text : Differential Equations, 3rd edition
by P. Blanchard, R.L. Devaney and G.R. Hall. Brooks Cole. (ISBN-10:
0495012653 ISBN-13: 978-0495012658)
Course
information for section 1 (homework and grading
policies, makeups)
Homework
(current set,
solutions to previous homeoworks, exam reviews...)
Lecture Notes (scanned copies
of lecture notes and occasionally, some supplementary material.
The quaility of the images isn't great,
but you can at least see what was covered.)
Sample exam questions: (3/20)
rev1 rev2
There are intended to reflect the subject matter of likely exam
questions, and also to
provide an indicatioin of the length and level of difficult of the exam
as a whole.
Additional practice problems of a similar character can be obtained
from the relevant sections of
the text. Exams from earlier semeseters in courses based on Boyce and
DiPrima will have a substantial
overlap, but will not be an entirely reliable guide. I will
publish solutions to the sample exam questions
above tomorrow (3/21) here:
revSol1 revSol2 revSol3 revSol4
I think the review questions will be most useful if you tackle them
first without the answers.
I hope you have a nice spring break.
It will be most useful if you first tackle the questions
Midterm exam: The overall classs average on the midterm was
78%. The exams will be returned
during class on April 2, and solutions to each question
with a rough breakdown of how partial
credit was awarded will be published here before class:
questions: 1 2 3 4 5