Math 331

Ordinary Differential Equations - Fall 2003
Math 331 Section 3
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:15 PM GOES 51

Instructor: Eyal Markman
Office: 1544 LGRT
Phone: 545-2788
E-Mail: markman@math.umass.edu
Office Hours : Wednesday, 11:30 AM - 1 PM, Thursday, 2:30 - 4 PM , or by arrangement.
Text: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 7-th Edition, By Boyce and DiPrima, John Wiley & Sons.

Teaching Assistants:
Hao Chen: hachen@math.umass.edu Office: LGRT 1235-C
   Hao's Office Hours: Monday, 1--3 PM
Nikolaos Tzirakis: tzirakis@math.umass.edu Office: LGRT 1323-E,   Office-Phone: 545-0881
   Nikos' Office Hours: Wednessday, 9:15 AM -11:15 AM

Syllabus for the course.
Homework Assignments.
Exams and Review Sessions When and Where?
Solutions to various Exams and Homework problems.
Integrate using Mathematica (Web site found by Emily Ward).

Homework: Will be assigned weekly and will be due each Thursday unless mentioned otherwise. The homework will be graded by a special grader. Due to lack of funds, it will not be possible to grade all the homework problems assigned. A few of the homework problems will be corrected and graded every week. Nevertheless, for your own benefit, you will be asked to hand in all the homework problems assigned. Your grade on each homework assignement will be calculated as follows:

70% The grade on the corrected problems.
30% Credit for handing in most of the homework problems. Partial credit will be given.

Late homework will not be accepted. The logistics required to handle late homework is simply too complicated. Instead, three homework grades will be dropped from the final grade. These will include the lowest grades and assignments which were not handed in.

Grades:

Homework, Quizzes & Class participation -- 20%
Two Midterms -- 50% (each 25%)
Final Exam -- 30%