Differential Equations
Math 2250-004
Spring 2018
Lecture Page

2250-004 home page
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
University of Utah

Lecture notes for each week should be posted over the preceding weekend, and I will bring copies to class on Mondays. After each class I will post the filled-in versions for that day. At the end of the week I'll post the entire week's filled-in notes.

Week 1: January 8-12 Sections 1.1-1.3 and part of 1.4
    week1.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
    The daily post-notes from this week are below:
      jan8.pdf syllabus, 1.1. differential equations, solutions to DE's and to IVP's for DE's.
      jan9.pdf 1.1-1.2 differential equations of the form y'(x)=f(x).
      jan10.pdf 1.2 continued: position-velocity-acceleration problems
      jan12.pdf 1.3-1.4 slope fields and solution graphs, introduction to separable DE's.
     week1_post.pdf all material we covered in week 1

Week 2: January 16-19 Sections 1.3-1.5
    week2.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      jan16.pdf 1.3-1.4 existence-uniqueness theorem, with separable DE examples
      jan17.pdf 1.4-1.5 separable DE application; introduction to linear differential equations.
      jan19.pdf 1.5 linear DE's continued; input-output modeling
     week2_post.pdf all material we covered in week 2

Week 3: January 22-26 Sections 1.5, EP 3.7, 2.1-2.3
    week3.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      jan22.pdf 1.5, EP 3.7: input-output modeling example, and RLC circuits application
      jan23.pdf 2.1 improved population model: logistic DE.
      jan24.pdf 2.2 equilibrium solutions and phase diagrams for autonomous first order differential equations.
      jan26.pdf 2.2 phase diagram analysis; many solutions from one; harvesting logistic, and doomsday-extinction model.
     week3_post.pdf all material we covered in week 3

Week 4: January 29 - Feb 2 Sections 2.3-2.6, 3.1-3.2
    week4.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      jan29.pdf 2.3 improved acceleration models.
      jan30.pdf 2.4 Euler's method for numerical approximation of solutions to first order differential equations.
      jan31.pdf 2.5-2.6 Improved Euler and Runge-Kutta numerical methods for first order DE's. Also, handout with Matlab functions and scripts.
      feb2.pdf 3.1-3.2
     week4_post.pdf all material we covered in week 4

Week 5: Feb 5-9 Sections 3.1-3.5
    week5.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      feb5.pdf 3.1-3.3 reduced row echelon form and solving systems of linear equations
      feb6.pdf 3.3 reduced row echelon form of a matrix A and how it relates to possible solutions for associated linear systems
      feb7.pdf 3.3 continued
      feb9.pdf 3.4 matrix algebra; introduction to 3.5 matrix inverses
     week5_post.pdf all material we covered in week 5

Week 6: Feb 12-14 Sections 3.5-3.6
    week6.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      feb12.pdf 3.5 matrix inverses
      feb13.pdf 3.6 definition of determinants
      feb14.pdf 3.6 determinant properties, and review notes for exam on Friday.
      week6_post.pdf all material covered in week 6

Week 7: Feb 20-23 Sections 3.6, 4.1-4.3
    week7.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      feb20.pdf 3.6 adjoint formula for inverse matrices; Cramer's rule.
      feb21.pdf 4.1 visualizing linear combinations, vector equations, and "span" in R2 and R3.
      feb23.pdf 4.1-4.3 linear independence and span
      week7_post.pdf all material covered in week 7

Week 8: Feb 26 - Mar 2 Sections 4.2-4.4, 5.1
    week8.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      feb26.pdf 4.2-4.4 linear independence, span, basis, dimension, for subspaces of Rn.
      feb27.pdf 4.2-4.4 vector spaces and subspaces.
      feb28.pdf 4.3-4.4 sub(vector)spaces in Rn, and how concepts like linear independence and span are interpreted for function "vectors".
      mar2.pdf 4.4 finding bases for subspaces of Rn, and how reduced row echelon form of a matrix encodes the matrix column dependencies.
      week8_post.pdf all material covered in week 8

Week 9: Mar 5-9 Sections 5.1-5.3
    week9.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      mar5.pdf 5.1-5.2 second (and higher order) linear differential equations
      mar6.pdf 5.1-5.2 continued, introduction to 5.3
      mar7.pdf 5.3 part 1: solutions to homogeneous linear differential equations with constant coefficients; real roots to characteristic equation
      mar9.pdf 5.3 part 2: complex roots to characteristic equation
      week9_post.pdf all material covered in week 9

Week 10: Mar 12-16 Sections 5.4-5.6
    week10.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      mar12.pdf 5.4 part 1: unforced oscillation problems without damping.
      mar13.pdf 5.4 part 2: unforced oscillation problems without damping.
      mar14.pdf 5.5 Finding particular solutions for nonhomogeneous linear differential equations, L(y)=f
      mar16.pdf 5.5, intro to 5.6 forced oscillations
      week10_post.pdf all material covered in week 10

Week 11: Mar 26-28 Sections 5.6,10.1-10.2
    week11.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      mar26.pdf 5.6: forced oscillations without damping: superposition, beating, resonance.
      mar27.pdf 5.6: forced oscillations with damping: solutions as superposition of steady periodic and transient solutions; practical resonance.
      mar28.pdf 10.1-10.3 introduction to Laplace transforms
      week11_post.pdf all material covered in week 11

Week 12: Apr 2-6 Sections 10.2-10.5, EP7.6
    week12.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      apr2.pdf 10.1-10.3 Laplace transform table entries, IVP's.
      apr3.pdf 10.2-10.3 continued; the linearized pendulum DE and an experiment.
      apr4.pdf 10.2-10.4 partial fractions, resonance table entries, step functions.
      apr6.pdf 10.5, EP7.6 piecewise and impulse forcing.
      week12_post.pdf all material covered in week 12

Week 13: Apr 9-13 Sections 10.5, EP7.6, 6.1-6.2
    week13.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      apr9.pdf 10.5, EP7.6 convolutions
      apr10.pdf 6.1-6.2 eigenvalues and eigenvectors
      apr11.pdf 6.1-6.2 eigenspaces and diagonalizability
      apr13.pdf 7.1-7.3 introduction to systems of differential equations
      week13_post.pdf all material covered in week 13

Week 14: Apr 16-20 Sections 7.1-7.4
    week14.pdf Notes that include outline for entire week
      apr16.pdf 7.1-7.2: systems of differential equations and calculus review, for differentiation rules in the matrix-vector setting.
      apr17.pdf 7.2-7.3: using eigendata and exponential functions to solve homogeneous first order systems of DEs.
      apr18.pdf 7.3: handling complex eigendata...includes finished G-H example.
      apr20.pdf 7.4: unforced mass-spring systems
      week14_post.pdf all material covered in week 14

Week 15: Apr 23-24 7.4 and review
    week15.pdf includes 7.4 forced oscillations; review notes will be posted later.
      apr23.pdf 7.4: mass-spring systems
      apr24.pdf filled-in review notes