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Math 308: 519&521

Daily Schedule, Lecture Notes, Announcements, Homework assignments

Lecture notes will be posted as they become available.
This schedule is tentative and subject to change.

	Date	Homework assignments	Sections covered in class	Announcements&Recommendations	Lecture Notes
Week 1	8/30	Homework assignment 1 due 09//06	Syllabus 1.2	Read syllabus	Lecture notes with spaces without spaces
	9/01		2.2		Lecture notes with spaces without spaces Enrichment 1
	9/04		2.2 (continued), 2.1 (started)		solution of item 5 of the notes of 9/01
Week 2	9/06	Homework assignment 2 is posted on eCampus, due September 13 at the beginning of class	2.1 (continued), 2.3 (model of mixing), 2.6 (started)		Lecture notes with spaces without spaces Enrichment 2
	9/08		2.6(continued), 1.1 (started)	Solutions of homework#1 are posted on eCampus	Lecture notes on direction fields with spaces without spaces Lecture notes on existence and uniqueness with spaces without spaces Enrichment 3
	9/11		1.1 (continued), 2.4		Lecture notes with spaces without spaces
Week 3	9/13		2.4 (continued), 2.5
	9/15	Homework assignment 3 is posted on eCampus, due September 20 at the beginning of class	2.5 (continued)		Lecture notes on systems of ODEs with spaces, without spaces UPDATED with phase portraits Lecture notes on linear systems and matrix arithmetics with spaces, without spaces
	9/18		2.5(continued), 7.1	Submission of homework#3 is postponed to Friday, September 22 Office hour on Tuesday, Sep 19 are postponed to Thursday, Sep 21, 1-2 pm
Week 4	9/20		7.2	Submission of homework#3 is postponed to Monday, September 25 Midterm exam 1 is postponed to October 5
	9/22		7.4	Solutions of homework 2 is posted on eCampus	Lecture notes on determinants and fundamental set of solutions with spaces, without spaces
	9/25	Homework assignment 4 is posted on eCampus, due October 4 at the beginning of class	Properties of determinants	The lecture notes posted for this date is the last material for midterm 1	Lecture notes on the role of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, case of distinct real eigenvalues, examples for $n=2, and application to equations of second order with spaces, without spaces
Week 5	9/27		7.4 again	The file with topics to know for the midterm exam 1 together with the list of suggested practice problems from the homework assignments of the previous semesters is posted on eCampus	Lecture notes on Gauss elimination and example of case n=3, distinct real eigenvalues with spaces, without spaces
	9/29	Problem 4 of homework assignment 4 is postponed to next homework. You do not need to submit this problem on Wednesday, October 4.	7.5 and 7.3 (eigenvalues and eigenvectors}	The room for the midterm exam is Blocker 169. Again the test is on October 5 , 8-10 pm. Bring your ID I also updated the file of topics to know: systems of 3 equations (section 14 of the notes) are excluded from the topics for this exam. Solutions of homework #3 are posted on eCampus.	Completed notes of sections 12 and 13 (Updated) Enrichment 4 (Abel's theorem)
	10/02
Week 6	10/04			Special office hours before the test will be on Thursday, October 5, 11:30 am-3:30 pm. Solutions of homework #4 are posted on eCampus.	Lecture notes on the case of complex eigenvaues with spaces, without spaces
	10/06	Homework assignment 5 is posted on eCampus, due October 13 at the beginning of class
	10/09
Week 7	10/11			Submission of homework#5 is postponed to Monday, October 16	Lecture notes on undamped and dumped unforced vibratons with spaces, without spaces
	10/13
	10/16	Homework assignment 6 is posted on eCampus, due October 23 at the beginning of class		Solutions of homework #4 are posted on eCampus.	Lecture notes on repeated roots and matrix exponential with spaces, without spaces
Week 8	10/18				Enrichment 5 (Euler's equations) Enrichment 6 (factoring differential operator+reduction of order) Lecture notes on algebraic and geometric multiplicity, generalized eigenvectors with application to the case n=2 with spaces, without spaces
	10/20			Submission of homework#6 is postponed to Wednesdday, October 25
	10/23				Lecture notes on general case of repeated eigenvalues with application to the case n=3 with spaces, without spaces
Week 9	10/25	Homework assignment 7 is posted on eCampus, due November 1 at the beginning of class
	10/27				Enrichment 7 (the case of eigenvalue with algebraic multiplicity 3); Lecture notes on method of variation of parameters with spaces, without spaces
	10/30			Solutions of homework #6 are posted, Midterm exam 2 will take place on November 9, 8-10 pm
Week 10	11/01	Homework assignment 8 is posted on eCampus, due November 8 at the beginning of class		Concepts to know for exam 2 are posted on eCampus	Lecture notes on method of undetermined coefficients with spaces, without spaces
	11/03				Lecture notes on basic Laplace transform with spaces, without spaces Beamer presentation on partial fraction decomposition for inverse Laplace transform of a rational fanction Enrichment 8 (about partial fraction decomposition over complex numbers)
	11/06		Solutions of homework #7 are posted,
Week 11	11/08			Midterm exam 2 will take place in Blocker 166 on November 9, 8-10 pm	Lecture notes on step functions and differential equations with discontinuous forcing functions with spaces, without spaces,
	11/10	Homework assignment #9 is posted on eCampus, due November 20
	11/13				Lecture notes on impulse function and convolution integrals, with spaces, without spaces
Week 12	11/15				Lecture notes on power series with spaces, without spaces
	11/17				completed notes of section 23 completed notes of section 24 Lecture notes on Series of Solutions near an ordinary point with spaces, without spaces
	11/20	Homework assignment #10 is posted on eCampus , due November 29			completed notes of section 25
Week 13	11/27			Solution of homework #9 is posted in eCampus	completed notes of section 26
	11/29				Lecture notes on Phase Plane: Linear System with spaces, without spaces Completed handwritten notes on this topic part 1 ,part2 (updated)
	12/01	Bonus Homework assignment #11 is posted on eCampus, due December 8, 2 pm to my mailbox, Blocker 226.			Notes of extra class of the evening of November 30 on Step function, Convolution, and Power series
Week 14	12/04			Please complete Course evaluation of my teaching. Go to www.math.tamu.edu There you will find a box with title: Course Evaluations - Fall Semester 2017, and a link to follow; • Login with their NetID and password; • Begin.	Notes on stability of critical points and nonlinear systems with spaces without spaces
	12/06		Last day of classes		Handwritten completed notes of section 28 Enrichment 9
					Notes of extra class of December 6 on Series Solutions, critical points, stability, and phase plane of linear and nonlinear systems pages 1-14 page 15 (sketch of the phase portrait for the last problem)
Final Exam		Section	Day	Time	Location
		519	Monday, Dec. 11	8-10 am	Block 149
		521	Wednesday, Dec 13	10:30 am-12:30 pm	Block 149