Math 2280 § 1 Differential Equations *Syllabus* Aug. 11, 2005 MTWF 9:40 - 10:30 in LCB 215 Web page: http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/M2282.html (Official updates of the syllabus and homework assignments will be available here.) Instructor: A. Treibergs, JWB 224, 581-8350. E-mail: treiberg@math.utah.edu. Office Hours: 10:45 - 11:35 MWF (tent.) & by appt. Text: Edwards & Penney, Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2004. You may also use the previous edition, Edwards & Penney, Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2000. The new edition is only slightly extended beyond the second. The HW list gives problem numbers from both editions. Grading Homework: You will be assigned weekly homework problems. We will discuss these problems in class. MAPLE: Every two weeks you will have a MAPLE assignment, which will be posted on the class home page. We shall meet in the department's computer lab, LCB 115. Midterms: There will be three full hour in class midterm exams on Wed., Sept. 21, Wed., Oct. 19 and Wed., Nov. 16. Questions will be modifications of homework problems. Final exam: Friday, Dec. 16 in LCB 215 from 8:00 a.m. - 10 a.m. Half of the final will be devoted to material covered after the third midterm exam. The other half will be comprehensive. Students must pass the final to pass the course. Course grade: Based on the best two of three midterm scores 36%, final exam 27%, homework 24% and MAPLE 13%. Tutoring Center:Free tutoring is available in the Rushing Mathematics Center, located between JWB and LCB. Hours M-Th 8:00 am-8:00 pm, Fri 8:00 am-6:00 pm, starting Aug. 31. Information for the center is at http://www.math.utah.edu/ugrad/mathcenter.html Withdrawals: Last day to drop a class is Sept. 2. Until Oct. 21 you can withdraw from the class with no approval at all. After that date you must petition your dean's office to be allowed to withdraw. ADA: The Americans with Disability Act requires that reasonable accom- modations be provided for students with cognitive, systemic, learning and psychiatric disabilities. Please contact me at the beginning of the term to discuss any such accommodations you may require for this course. Course Content: Solving first order differential equations via separation of variables. Linear equations. Numerical methods. Physical and graphical motivations. Higher order equations. Vibrations, resonance, electric circuits. Systems. Stability. Chaos. Laplace transform methods. Partial differential equations for heat, waves and electric potential via Fourier series.