Purchase the required books.
Textbook: Fundamentals of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, second edition, R. Kent Nagle and Edward B. Saff, Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-80879-X.
Laboratory manual: Solving Differential Equations with Maple V, David Barrow et al., Brooks/Cole, 1998, ISBN 0-534-34555-7.
Get a copy of the first day handout, which summarizes important general information about the course.
Get assigned to a group.
Cover sections 1.1 and 1.2 of Nagle & Saff.
Log in to your CalcLab account. Make sure you can send and read email, open and close a Maple window, and use a Web browser.
Read Chapter 1, pages 1-30, in Nagle & Saff. Be prepared for a quiz over the reading in class on Thursday, January 22.
Sit down at the computer and work through Chapter 0 of the lab manual. (This is a review of basic Maple commands.)
Work (by hand) the following exercises from Nagle & Saff. These exercises are to be handed in at the beginning of class on Thursday, January 22.
Section 1.1, pages 5-6: exercises 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 15, 16.
Section 1.2, pages 14-15: exercises 5, 8, 11, 12, 18, 21, 29.
Use Maple to solve exercise 15 on page 14 of Nagle & Saff. Print your worksheet and hand it in at the beginning of class on Thursday, January 22.