Reading Assignments 2250 Spring 2008
All Reading is approximately one week ahead of the lectures.
Please read the text in the week assigned! Then read it again
after the lectures on the topics.

Week 1, Jan 7,9,11
 Read sections 1.1,1.2,1.3.  Method of Quadrature, Direction
 fields, Picard theory

Week 2, Jan 14,16,18
 Read sections 1.4,1.5.  Separable DE, linear DE

Week 3, Jan 21,23,25
 Read sections 2.1,2.2,2.3.  Verhulst DE, Phase analysis, Newton
 models, Earth to the moon

Week 4, Jan 28,30, Feb 1
 Read sections 2.4,2.5,2.6,3.1. Numerical integration and DE,
 Intro linear algebra

Week 5, Feb 4,6,8
 Read sections 3.2,3.3,3.4. Matrices, rref, matrix operations

Week 6, Feb 11,13,15
 Read sections 3.5,3.6. Inverses, Determinants

Week 7, Feb 18,20,22.
 Read sections 4.1,4.2,4.3. Vector space, subspace, independence

Week 8, Feb 25,27,29
 Read sections 4.4,4.5,4.6,4.7. Basis, dimension, row and column
 space, orthogonality, abstract spaces

Week 9, Mar 3,7,9
 Read sections 5.1,5.2,5.3,5.4. Linear constant DE, superposition,
 atoms, vibrations

Week 10, Mar 12,14,16
 Read sections 5.5,5.6. Variation constants, undetermined
 coefficients, forced oscillations, resonance

Week 11, Mar 24,26,28
 Read sections 6.1,6.2,7.1,7.2. Eigenanalysis, systems of DE

Week 12, Mar 31, Apr 2,4
 Read sections 7.3,7.4,10.1 Second order systems, railway cars,
 Laplace

Week 13, Apr 7,9,11
 Read sections 10.2,10.3. Laplace

Week 14, Apr 14,16,18
 Read sections 10.4,10.5. Laplace. Midterm 3 review.

Week 15, Apr 21,23
 More Laplace theory. Final exam review.