Math 307 B - Introduction to Differential Equations

MWF 10:50-11:50, ARC 147

Midterm: Friday, July 22nd, in class
Final Exam: Friday, August 19th, in class

Course Information

Instructor: Erik Slivken
Email: slivken at math.washington.edu
Office: Padelford (PDL) C-20
Office hours: Monday 12:30-2:30, and by appointment

The syllabus can be found here.

This Week

DayTopicsReadings
Monday (8/8):Step Functions6.3
Wednesday (8/10):Discontinuous Forcing Function6.4
Friday (8/12):More Laplace Transforms

Homework Assignments

HW 6 (Due Wed. August 17): Section 6.3 # 7, 24, 33, 35
Section 6.4 # 10, 11, 20, 21
HW 6 (Due Fri. August 12): Section 3.8 # 12, 15
Section 6.1 # 3, 5, 6, 14, 21, 23, 26
Section 6.2 # 1, 8, 14, 18, 21, 25, 28, 29, 34
HW 5 (Due Wed. August 3): Section 3.5 # 6, 11, 18, 28, 31
Section 3.7 # 7, 8, 13, 19, 20, 27,

HW 4 (Due Wed. July 20): Section 2.7 # 18, 20
Section 3.1 # 2, 4, 8, 11, 24, 27, 28
Section 3.3 # 3, 6, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 28, 34
HW 3 (Due Wed. July 13): Section 2.6 # 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 18, 22, 26, 27, 29
HW 2 (Due Wed. July 6): Section 2.3 # 2, 6, 8, 13, 17, 26, 32
Section 2.4 # 2, 6, 14, 15, 23, 25, 28
Section 2.5 # 3, 9, 11, 20, 21, 25
HW 1 (Due Wed. June 29): Section 1.1 # 16, 17, 22, 23
Section 1.3 # 10, 15, 19
Section 2.1 # 1, 6, 13, 16, 26, 30, 33
Section 2.2 # 3, 4, 8, 12, 18
HW 0 (Not Collected): Review Calculus with this handout (PDF)

Textbook

Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems by Boyce and Diprima
Homework problems will come from the 9th edition.

Sage

You may find these links useful:

Sage Online Notebook
Sagemath Tutorial
Diff EQs Tutorial
Example Code