Instructor: Michael Stecher

Office: Milner 126, 845-3269, stecher@math.tamu.edu

Office hours: MWF 1:40- 2:30 in Milner 126, and by appointment

Text: Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems by Nagle, Saff, and Snider, Custom Edition. A good reference for Matlab^® is Matlab^® An Introduction with Applications 2 ^nd edition by Amos Gilat

Prerequisite: Math 253 (third semester calculus) or its equivalent.

We will have one midterm exam, worth 100 points, matlab project(s), quizzes, and a final exam worth 150 points. The net value of quizzes and project(s) will be 100 points for a grand total of 350 points. As usual an A is 90%, a B 80%, etc.

I plan to cover Chapters 1, 2, 4, 9, 7, and 8. Some additional material will also be discussed in particular I want to augment the text's treatment of special functions (Chap. 8). Some material from Chapter 3 may also be presented.

The following is a tentative weekly schedule of what we will cover in the course. Additional material may be included, and some of the material below may not be covered.

Aug. 27	Read Chapter 1, 2.1
Sept. 3	2.2, 2.3, 4.1
Sept. 10	4.2, 4.3
Sept. 17	4.4, 4.5, 4.6
Sept 24	4.7, 4.8, 4.9
Oct. 1	9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Oct. 8	9.5, 9.6, 9.7, Midterm
Oct. 15	7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Oct. 22	7.4, 7.5, 7.6
Oct. 29	7.7, 7.8, Nov. 2, last day to Q-drop
Nov. 5	Separation of variables, 8.1 -- 8.3
Nov. 12	8.4, 8.5, 8.6
Nov. 19	8.6, 8.7, Thanksgiving
Nov. 26	8.8
Dec. 3	Monday is Friday, and Tuesday, Dec. 4th is Thursday and the last day of classes.
Dec. 10	Final exam is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 10 at 10:30 AM.