COURSE INFORMATION
MATH 331.3, FALL 2007

Instructor: Markos Katsoulakis, $LGRT-1423G$ , tel.# $5-1331$
e-mail: markos $<$ at $>$ math.umass.edu http://www.math.umass.edu/ markos
Classroom: LGRC A301, $2:30PM-3:45PM$.

Office Hours: Tu and Th $9:30AM-11:00AM$or by appointment.
Exam Week Office Hours: Monday 12/17, Noon-2PM or by appointment.
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Primary Teaching Assistant: Jennie D' Ambroise $LGRT-1435I$
e-mail: dambroise $<$ at $>$ math.umass.edu
TA's Office Hours: Tu, Th 5:30-7:00PM at $LGRT1634$
In-class recitation: Monday, 4-5PM, Room LGRCA301.
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Additional Teaching Assistant: Garret Cahill $LGRT-1323 N$
e-mail : cahill $<$ at $>$ math.umass.edu
In-class recitation : Wednesday, 5:00-6:00 Room: LGRCA301.
2nd TA's Office hours: Tu 1:15-2:15, Th 4-5PM Room LGRT 1323N
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Exam Week Review
Monday Dec 17 Wednesday, 4-6PM LGRT 101
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Important Dates:
Quizes: 9/20, 10/4, 11/01, 11/15, 11/29, 12/11.
Midterm: 10/23. Material: 1.1-1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 2.1-2.3, 3.1-3.3.
Final: Tuesday, 12/18. Material: Sec 3.4-3.7, 4.1-4.4 and 6.1-6.4
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Exams and grading policy: There will be one midterm and one final; each one will count as $1/3$ of the final grade. I will not give make-up exams unless there is documented justification.
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Quizes: Quizes will be given biweekly; they will count as $1/3$ of the final grade. There will be no make-up quizes.

Homework: Homework will be assigned weekly but it will not be collected. Quiz problems are similar to the assigned homework problems.

Grading Scale:
D: $60$,
D+: $63$,
C-: $67$,
C: $70$,
C+: $73$,
B-: $77$,
B: $80$,
B+: $83$,
A-: $87$,
A: $90$.

Textbook: Differential equations, Blanchard, Devaney and Hall, 3rd Edition.

Course Material: Most of Chapters 1, 3, 4, 6 and parts of 2, 5 and 7.
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QUIZ 12/11      (Sec. 6.2-6.4)

HOMEWORK 8

Section 6.6: 2, 5, 8, 9.
Section 6.5: 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11.

HOMEWORK 7
QUIZ 11/29,      (Sec. 4.3, 4.4, 6.1)
Section 6.4: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9.
Section 6.3: 2, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 27, 29, 34.
Section 6.2: 3, 4, 10, 11, 15.
Section 6.1: 15, 18, 25, 26.

HOMEWORK 6
Section 4.3: 1, 3, 9, 19, 21.
Section 4.4: 3, 4, 6, 7.
Section 4.1: 3, 12, 19, 20, 21, 31, 33, 37.
Section 4.2: 1, 5, 16, 19,

HOMEWORK 5
Section 3.5: 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 21, 23.
Section 3.6: 1, 5, 9, 13, 15, 21, 23, 31, 32, 34, 36ab.
Section 3.7: 7, 9, 10.

HOMEWORK 4
No Quiz on October 18
Section 3.1: 15, 16, 27, 31, 32, 33, 35.
Section 3.2: 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19.
Section 3.3: 1, 3, 9, 17, 18, 19, 23, 27.
Section 3.4: 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 15, 18, 19, 20, 23, 26.

HOMEWORK 3
Quiz 2: October 4 (on the sections covered by hw 3)
Section 2.1: 17, 20, 22, 24.
Section 2.2: 7, 8, 9, 11, 12.
Section 2.3: 13, 14ab (study only the part on the damped harmonic oscillator).
Section 3.1: 5, 8, 16a.

HOMEWORK 2
Quiz 1: September 20
Section 1.4: 1, 3, 5, 6.
Section 1.6: 1, 4, 11, 13, 16, 18, 28, 32, 34, 39, 40.
Section 1.9: 1, 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 22, 25, 27.

HOMEWORK 1
Section 1.1: 1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 19.
Section 1.2: 4, 6, 12, 13, 23, 26, 29, 33, 34, 39.
Section 1.3: 1(a), 2(a), 13, 14, 15(i), 19, 20.