Math 254, Fall 2010

Tentative Class Schedule and Homework Assignment

Fundamentals of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems
Nagle, Saff and Snider, 7-th Edition

Week 1
  • Pre-requests: A review on calculus facts [Homework]
  • Sect. 1.2: (pages 14-15) 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 16, 20, 21
    • Unit 1: Equations of First Order

    Week 2
  • Sect. 2.2: (pages 46-47) 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25
  • Sect. 2.3: (pages 54-55) 1, 4, 5, 7, 10, 16, 17, 20
  • Sect. 2.4: (pages 65-66) 1, 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 29

    • Week 3
  • Sect. 2.5: (page 71) 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16
  • Sect. 2.6: (page 79) 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23, 28, 30, 31, 42
    • Unit 2: Second order linear equations

    Week 4 and 5
  • Sect. 4.2: (page 176-177) 1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 16, 19
  • Sect. 4.3: (page 186-187) 1, 4, 8, 10, 13, 16, 22, 25
  • Sect. 4.4: (page 195) 9, 11, 14, 18, 16, 19, 28, 29
    • The first Mid-term is on Tuesday, September 21. No homework is going to be collected on Wednesday September 22 and there is also no quiz on that date. Homework for Weeks 4 and 5 will be collected on the Wednesday the week after.

    Week 6
  • Sect. 4.4: (page 195) 17, 20, 22, 26, 31, 32
  • Sect. 4.5: (page 201-202) 17, 18, 20, 22, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36
  • Sect. 4.6: (page 206-207) 3, 6, 8, 12, 14, 18
    • Unit 3: Laplace Transformation

    Week 7
  • Sect. 4.7: (page 214-217) 9, 11, 15, 18, 37, 40, 42
  • Sect. 7.2: (page 385-386) 13, 16, 27, 19, 20
  • Sect. 7.3: (page 391) 1, 3, 7, 9, 14.

    • Week 8
  • Sect. 7.4: (page 400-401) 1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 14, 19, 23, 28
  • Sect. 7.5: (page 409-410) 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 26, 32, 38

    • Week 9 and 10
  • Sect. 7.6: (page 421-424) 1, 5, 6, 10, 13, 18, 19, 22, 23, 29, 32, 36, 39
    • The second mid-term is on Tuesday, Oct. 26. This Mid-term covers the material from week 6 to week 9 as listed above. No homework is going to be collected on Wednesday Oct. 27 and there is also no quiz on that date. Homework for Weeks 9 and 10 will be collected on the Wednesday the week after.

  • Sect. 7.7: (page 431-432) 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12
    • Unit 4: Power Series Solution

    Week 11
  • Sect. 8.1: (page 456) 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
  • Sect. 8.2: (page 464-466) 1,3, 5, 6, 23, 25, 27, 30, 31

    • Week 12
  • Sect. 8.3: (page 476) 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24

    • Week 13
  • Sect. 8.4: (page 482) 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 16
  • Sect. 9.3: (page 548-550) 4, 5, 9, 12, 21, 23, 26

    • Weeks 14 and 15
  • Sect. 9.5: (page 567) 1, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 19, 21
  • Sect. 9.6: (page 575) 2, 3, 13
    • The third Mid-term will be on Thursday, Dec. 2. After my lecture today, some students asked me to extend the homework due date for weeks 14 and 15 to Dec. 8 because a lot of studfents appear to have a mid-term tomorrow. Dec. 8 is therefore the new due date. However, you still need to do these homework problems before Dec. 2 for the Mid-term. There will be no quiz nor homework due for recital sessions on Dec. 1.