Differential Equations Homework and Study Guide

Quiz, test, and final exam problems will be similar to the problems listed in the "problems to study" colum of this table.

# Sec Topic page in book problems to study homework homework due
1   families of curves handout pages 3-4 (A)-(E) (A)-(C) Fri 15 Jan
2   making differential equations handout page 8 (F)-(K) (F,G,I,J) Mon Jan 18
3 2.2 separable variables 50-51 1-32, 35-38 14, 24 Wed Jan 20
4 2.5 affine substitutions (page 73) 74 23-28 28, 30 Fri Jan 22
5 2.2 separable variables 50-51 1-32, 35-38 30 Mon Jan 25
no homework tonight Wed Jan 27
T1 Study material of homework sets 1-5 for test Fri Jan 29
6 2.5 homogeneous (page 71) 74 1-14 6, 12 Mon Feb 1
7 2.4 exact 68-69 1-30 8, 12 Wed Feb 3
8 2.4 exact 68-69 1-30 30 Fri Feb 5
2.3 linear 60-61 1-37 12
9 2.3 linear 60-61 1-37 20 Mon Feb 8
10 2.5 Bernoulli (page 72) 74 15-22 18, 22 Wed Feb 10
Q1 No written assignment tonight. Study for quiz on homogeneous and exact equations (similar to homework sets 6 and 7 Fri Feb 12
11 4.2 reduction of order 133 17-20 18, 20 Mon Feb 15
12   complex numbers handout page 6 (6) through (12) (9) through (12) FriI Feb 19
4.3 constant coeff: real, unrepeated roots 138 1-5, 7, 8, 15, 31, 32, 36, 42 2, 4
13 4.3 constant coeff: some roots complex or repeated 138 some of 1-40 10, 12, 22 Mon Feb 22
14 4.3 constant coeff: repeated and complex roots 138 1-40 28, 34 Wed Feb 24
T2 Study material of homework sets 9-12 for test Fri Feb 26
15 4.5 annihilators 156 15-26 16, 18, 22, 26 Mon March 1
  no written assignment tonight Wed Mar 3
16 4.5 annihilators 157 39-64 40, 60 Fri March 5
Q2 Study material of homework sets 13-16 for quiz 2 Wed Mar 17
17 4.7 Cauchy-Euler 168 1-18 14, 16 Wed Mar 17
18 4.8 systems 172 1-22 6 Mon Mar 22
19 4.8 systems 173 1-22 16 Wed Mar 24
20 6.1 power series 230 1-4, 9-12 2, 4, 10, 12 Mon Mar 29
T3 Study material of homework sets 16-19 for test Fri April 2
21 6.1 power series 230 22, 23, 26, 28, 32, 39 22, 26 Fri April 9 Mon April 12
22 6.1 more series 230 22, 23, 26, 28, 32, 39 24 Wed April 14
Q3 Study for Quiz 3. It will cover section 6.1 of the textbook; it will be similar to problems 22, 23, 26, 28, 32, 39 on page 230. Mon April 19
23 6.2 Frobenius series 239 15. 16. 18-21. 24 16 Fri April 23
FE Our last class meeting is Monday, April 26. Our final exam will be 9-11 am on Wednesday, May 5, in our usual classroom. I may add some notes to this page about what to study and what to not study.