309B/C Winter 2012

Office:	Padelford C-528
Office Hours:	M 2:30-4 T 3-5
Classroom:	309B: Mueller Hall 155 309C: Bagley Hall 260
Hours of Instruction:	309B: MWF 11:30-12:20 309C: MWF 1:30-2:20
Textbook:	Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, by Boyce and DiPrima. Note that there is not much difference between the 8th and 9th edition of the book aside from maybe a different ordering of the problems. However, I will be posting homework assignments on this webpage, so the problem ordering makes no difference. Hence, students may opt to buy a used copy of the 8th edition, which you can find used for as low as 4 or 5 bucks.
Material Covered:	We will try to keep with the standard rubric, although perhaps skipping chapter 9. See the Agenda below for a rough schedule of when material will be covered.
Quizzes/Homework:	Each week I will assign a homework of 10-30 problems. The following Wednesday I will give a quiz based upon a few of those homework problems. There are no make up quizzes There is, however, a schema so that only your top 5 quizes are counted in your grade. Quiz 1 problems (with solutions). Covers material from 7.1-7.3 Quiz 2 problems (with solutions). Covers material from 7.4 and 7.5 Quiz 3 problems (with solutions). Covers material from 7.6-7.8 Quiz 4 problems (with solutions). Covers material from 7.9, 10.2, and 10.4. Quiz 5 problems (with solutions). Covers material from 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. Quiz 6 problems (with solutions). Covers material from 10.5 and 10.6. Quiz 7 problems (with solutions). Covers material from 10.7. Quiz 8 problems (with solutions), covers material from second half of 10.7.
Exams:	There will be two midterms and a final (dates TBA). There are no make up exams. There is, however, a grading schema that will allow for one exam to be dropped (see below). Exam 1 will be Friday February 3 and cover all material from chapter 7 that we've covered in class. Recommended exercises from textbook: 7.3 1-34; 7.4 6,7; 7.5 1-10, 15.18; 7.6 1-12; 7.7 1-16; 7.8 1-12. Note: You are only expected to be able to sketch solutions to two dimensional problems with REAL eigenvalues, so if a problem outside of section 7.5 asks you to sketch a solution, just skip that part of the problem. Midterm 1 with solutions. Average: 82%. Grades are posted on my.uw.edu. Exam 2 will be Friday March 2 and cover material from chapter 10 that we've covered in class. Recommended exercises from textbook: 10.2: 1-24 (don't worry about any sketching problems or problems where they ask you to "describe" anything, just practice computing Fourier series and determining when a function is periodic); 10.3: 1-12 (Do the sketching, but aside from that and computing Fourier series, don't compute maximum values or anything else they ask); 10.4 1-22, 23-26 (a and b only), 27-30 (only compute the Fourier series), 31-34; 10.5: 1-12; 10.6: 1-8, 9a, 10abd (only the first half of d), 11a, 12ab, 13ac, 14a, 16a, ; 10.7 1a,2a,3a,4a. Midterm 2 with solutions. Average: ~55%. Grades are posted on my.uw.edu.
Grading:	Quizzes (Top 5) 30%, max(Midterm 1,Midterm 2 30%), Final 40% This schema allows for you to drop the score of your lowest midterm, and will also only use your 5 highest quiz scores in computing grades. I will compute your letter grades at the end of the quarter depending on the overall class performance.
Calculators:	Calculators may be needed on homeworks, but are prohibited during exams.
Cheating:	This isn't high school, grow up.

Agenda for the class

(Subject to change)