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MATH 80: Lecture Schedule

This is a tentative schedule; it will almost certainly shift and change as necessary.
There are nineteen lectures total.


Monday Wednesday Friday
Week of
3/11/13 		Introduction to Picard iteration
 Picard Iteration
Existence & Uniqueness
 MAPLE Lab I:
Introduction to MAPLE
Week of
3/18/13		 Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break
Week of
3/25/13		 Power Series Methods: Ordinary Points

 Power Series for Second-order Linear DEs
HW #1 Due
 Cesar Chavez Day
NO CLASS
Week of
4/1/13
 Polynomial Solutions to DEs
Regular Singular Points

 		Euler's Equidimensional DEs
Intro to Frobenius Series
HW #2 Due
 		Examples of Frobenius Series
Week of
4/8/13 		Bessel Functions
Oscillations of a Circular Membrane
Introduction to the
Laplace Transform
HW #3 Due
 Laplace Transforms:
Higher Derivatives,
First Shifting Theorem,
Midterm I Available
Week of
4/15/13		 Laplace Transforms:
Heaviside Functions & Shifting Theorems
Midterm I Due
 Laplace Transforms:
Convolutions & δ-functions		 Laplace Transforms:
Green's Functions
Week of
4/22/13		 Numerical Methods:
Euler & Taylor Methods

 Numerical Methods:
Runge-Kutta Methods
HW #4 Due
 Class Cancelled
Week of
4/29/13		 Numerical Methods:
Round-off Error & Stability
 MAPLE Lab:  
Numerical Solutions to DEs
 Class Evaluations
An Introduction to Swarming
HW #5 Due

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