Lectures are optional. Attendance will not be taken. Students are, however, responsible for any material or information presented in lectures which is not available from other sources.
| Homework Assignments | 20% |
| 3 Exams | 15% each |
| 1 Final Exam | 35% |
The final exams are scheduled so that conflicts are
avoided. This does not mean that students cannot
have multiple exams on the same day.
No books, notes, or calculators are allowed on the exams. Nothing
more than a pen or pencil and some paper.
Students will be required to use a computer as a solver for differential equations. Students are strongly encouraged to use Maple for this purpose, and take advantage of the computers in the Department. Many homework assignments will require plots, some of them complicated, and students must use a computer to plot these.
The course will cover chapters 1 through 6 and some additional material on linear algebra, plus additional topics as time permits.
Some of the homework that is assigned is not to be handed in. The homework that is required to be handed in will not all be graded, but some problems, usually three, will be. Most of the problems on the tests will be taken from the text, and most of those will be taken from the assigned problems.
A study guide for Exam 2 is here.
A study guide for Exam 3 is here.
Homework must be neat and properly presented. If your handwriting is poor, use TeX or Maple or something else to present your work.
Every assignment is to be completed by you. You may work with others from the class on the material and you may consult other resources, but what you hand in for a grade must be your own work.