Math 64, Ordinary Differential Equations II

Prof. Kreiger will share in instruction of Secs. 1 & 2 after 3/10/06. These sections will be coordinate substantially with Prof. Castro's Sec. 3.

Spring Semester 2005, Second Half

Text: Differential Equations: A Modeling Perspective,, Second Edition, by Robert L. Borrelli and Courtney S. Coleman (Published by John Wiley & Sons, 2004).

Course Grades: Grading will be based on two exams (one midterm and one final) and homework.

Relative weight of Exams and Homework: Midterm 35%, Final 35%, Homework 30%

Examination Schedule:

Midterm; In-class, Friday, April 7
Final; TBD

Homework: Weekley homework assignments will be posted here each week by Friday at around 3pm and will be due in class the following Wednesday. Please be aware of the conventions for homework formatting required in this course: Math Department Standard.

TOPICS COVERED

Week of March 6: Secs. 6.3 & 6.4; Solution of linear ODE systems with real constant coefficient matrix - deficient and non-deficient cases, real and complex eigenvalues

TOPICS COMING UP

Planned for week of March 20: Touch up Sec. 6.4 case of complex eigenvalues, Sec. 6.5 Orbits of linear systems, Start Sec. 6.5 Matrix exponential

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS (Reverse Chrono):

• Homework #1, due in class Wed March 22:
  Section 6.3, Prob. 13 (find general solution and solve IVP given Initial Value X(0) = [1 1]^T, Prob. 18 (find general solution and solve IVP given IV X(0)=[0 1 0]^T), Prob. 35
  Section 6.4, Prob. 4 (find general sollution and solve the specified IVP)