Instructor: Florent Baudier
Office: Blocker 525C
Office hours: MW 11-noon
Lectures: MW 5:45-7:00 p.m., Blocker 128
Course description: Ordinary differential equations, solutions in series, solutions using Laplace transforms, systems of differential equations. Textbook: Boyce and DiPrima, Elementary differential equations, Custom TAMU Edition.

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Loose-Leaf version
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Exams Course material Method of variation of parameters (for a second order linear ODE)

Laplace transforms

Systems of differential equations Practice problem sets and quizzes

Practice problem set	Problems from the book	Quiz
#1	Section 1.1: #5, #12, #21, #24 Section 1.2: #1 a) with y0=0, 1, #1 b) with y0=0, #2 c) with y0=-1, #8, #13, #18, #19 Section 1.3: #1, #4, #23 Section 2.1: #5 c), #10 c), #12 c), #14, #16, #17, #19 #22 b)(and c) optional), #24 b), #39, #40, #41, #42	#1, Wednesday 09/09 solution
#2	Section 2.2: #2, #3, #5, #7, #8, #32 a) and b), #35 a) and b), #36 a) and b), #37 a) and b), #38 a) and b), Section 2.5: #3, #4, #10	#2, Wednesday 09/16 solution
#3	Section 2.5: #3, #4, #10 Section 2.6 : #1, #2, #4, #8, #10, #11, #13, #16, #20, #21, #25, #26, #28	#3, Wednesday 09/23 solution
#4	Section 3.1: #1, #6, #8, #13, #16, #21 Section 3.2 : #5, #13, #17, #24 Section 3.3 : #9, #14, #19 Section 3.4 : #3, #5, #13	#4, Wednesday 10/07 solution
#5	Section 3.5 : #1, #2, #7, #13 Section 3.6: #2, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10	#5, Wednesday 10/14 solution
#6	Section 6.1: #1, #2, #5 a) and b), #6, #7, #8, #9, # 10, #15, #16 Section 6.3: #1, #2, #4, #6, #7, #12, #13, #17, #30, #31	#6, Wednesday 10/21 solution
#7	Section 6.2: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #17, #21 Section 6.3: #1, #2, #4, #6, #7, #12, #13, #17, #30, #31 Section 6.4: #1 a), #2 a), #3 a), #7 a), #10 a), #13 a)	#7, Wednesday 10/28 solution
#8	Section 6.5: #1 a), #3 a), #5 a), #7 a), #12 a) Section 6.6: #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #13, #14	#8, Wednesday 11/11 solution
#9	Section 7.3: #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21	#9, Monday 23/11 solution
#10	Section 7.5: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8	#10, Wednesday 12/02 solution
#11	Section 7.6: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #9, #10

Schedule

Date of Class	Material covered
08/31	general introduction and Section 1.1
09/02	Section 1.2, Section 1.3
09/07	Section 2.1
09/09	Quiz #1 , Section 2.1, Section 2.2
09/14	Section 2.2, Section 2.5
09/16	Quiz #2 , Section 2.5
09/21	Section 2.6
09/23	Quiz #3 , Section 2.6
09/28	Test #1
09/30	No quiz, Section 3.1, Section 3.2, Section 3.3, Section 3.4
10/05	Section 3.5
10/07	Quiz #4 and I will go over the solution of Test #1
10/12	Section 3.5, Section 3.6
10/14	Quiz #5 , Section 3.6
10/19	Section 6.1, Section 6.3
10/21	Quiz #6 , Section 6.1, Section 6.3, Section 6.2
10/26	Section 6.2, Section 6.4
10/28	Quiz #7 , review for Test #2
11/02	Test #2
11/04	No, quiz, Section 6.5, Section 6.6
11/09	Section 6.5, Section 6.6
11/11	Quiz #8 , I will go over the solution of Test #2
11/16	review on matrices, Section 7.5
11/18	Section 7.5
11/23	Quiz #9 , Section 7.5
11/25	NO CLASSES (Reading days)
11/30	Section 7.5, Section 7.6
12/02	Quiz #10 , Section 7.6, Section 7.8
12/07	NO CLASSES (students attend their Friday classes)
12/09	Review for the final