Mathematics 307 C
Spring 2008
Introduction to Differential Equations
| Instructor: Xiaosheng Li |
| Lecture Time and Location: MWF 10:30am--11:20am LOW 201 |
| Office Hours: MW 11:30am--12:30pm and by appointment |
| Office: PDL C-543 |
| Email: xli@math.washington.edu |
| Class Webpage: www.math.washington.edu/~xli/307c08s.htm |
| Textbook: |
| Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems |
| by W. E. Boyce and R. C. DiPrima, 8th edition |
| Course Plan: |
| Chapter 2: Section 1,2,3,4,5,7 |
| Chapter 3: Section 1,4,5,6,8,9 |
| Chapter 6: Section 1,2,3,4 |
| Prerequisite: Math 125; Math 126 strongly recommended |
| Exam Schedule: |
| Midterm : May 2 (Friday, in class, covering up to Chapter 3 Section 5) |
| Final: June 9 (Monday, 8:30am--10:20am, LOW 201, cumulative) |
| Grading Policy: |
| Homework 15% |
| Midterm 35% |
| Final 50% |
| Homework: |
| Assigned weekly and due on Wednesday at the beginning of the class. |
| Important: |
| • Make ups are permitted only under exceptional circumstances. |
| • A piece of notes (8.5*11 inches, letter size, one side) will be |
| allowed on the midterm and the final, along with a scientific |
| (but not graphing) calculator. |
| • Late homework will not be accepted, but the lowest homework grade |
| will be dropped. |
| • Feel free to work with other people on your homework, but you must |
| write your solutions yourself. |
| • Grader will grade two or three problems from each assignment |
| carefully, and check the completeness of other problems. |
Homework Assignments: HW1 HW2 HW3 HW4 HW5 HW6 HW7 HW8
Practice Midterm (.pdf) Key to Practice Midterm (.pdf)
Direction Field Plotter (Java)
Basic Formulae (.pdf) (thanks to Prof. Marshall)
Notes on Complex Numbers (.pdf) (thanks to Prof. Sylvester)
Complex Exponential Function (.pdf) (thanks to Prof. Erickson)