Math 3D - Elementary Differential Equations

Class is scheduled for MWF 3:00-3:50pm in Rowland Hall 101
Office Hours (MSTB 223) are MF 2:00-2:50pm and W 11:00-11:50am

Homework Assignments
Problems are listed in the following format: [Page (section): Problems]
Lectures 1-3: [8 (1.1): 4,8,11,16], [14 (1.2): 2,7], [22 (1.3): 1-6,15,18], [39 (2.1): 21,29], [72 (2.2,2.4): 7,10,17,20]
Review complex numbers.
Lectures 4-6: [136 (3.1): 1,4,5,9,16,21], [145 (3.2): 7,11], [152 (3.3): 1-3], [160 (3.4): 19,20,25], [166 (3.5): 2,14,15]
Lectures 7-8: [178 (3.6): 1, 2, 6, 7, 13, 17], [184 (3.7): 10, 12, 28, 29]
Midterm I
Lecture 9: [197 (3.8): 1, 7, 12, 15, 26], [205 (3.9): 5, 13, 17]
Lectures 10-11: [212 (4.1): 12, 16, 18], [219 (4.2): 11, 23, 29, 37], [224 (4.3): 1, 2, 10, 19], [229 (4.4): 1, 2, 13]
Review power series.
Lectures 12-13: [237 (5.1): 1, 2, 4, 12, 14, 21, 23, 27], [247 (5.2): 3, 10, 15, 20], [253 (5.3): 1, 4, 12], [259 (5.4): 3, 8, 11, 18]
Lectures 14-16: [265 (5.5): 1, 2, 21, 23], [271 (5.6): 7, 13], [279 (5.7): 20]
Midterm II
Lectures 17-18: [298 (6.1): 1, 4, 5, 13, 21, 22, 23, 24], [307 (6.2): 1, 2, 8, 11, 23, 25, 28, 30] [314 (6.3): 1, 4, 5, 9, 13, 15, 16, 19]
Lectures 19-21: [321 (6.4): 1, 9, 16, 18], [325 (6.5): 3, 5, 14], [335 (6.6): 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 16, 18]
Review matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors (7.1)-(7.3): [366 (7.3): 14, 15, 22, 27, 28]
Lectures 22-24: [381 (7.5): 1, 5, 9, 11, 15], [390 (7.6): 1, 2, 7, 10, 23], [417 (7.9): 1, 2, 7, 10]
Lectures 25-26: Review
Final Examination.


General Course Information
In the course we shall follow the textbook by Boyce and DiPrima indicated at the bottom of the page.
TA for the course will be Micah Webster (mwebst@math.uci.edu).
There are two two hour discussion sections scheduled:
  Tue/Th 2-2:50 in HICF 100M
  Tue/Th 3:3:50 in EIC 126
You are asked to take the quizzes in the section you are registered in. The quizzes are mandatory.
Homeworks will be assigned every week and can be reviewed in the discussion sections.
There will be a quiz in the discussion section every non-exam week.
Two midterm examinations are scheduled for Friday January 30 and Monday February 23, respectively.
The final examination takes place on Monday March 22 as of schedule of classes.
Every Friday I will collect emails from everyone of you where you are asked to formulate a relevant question about the material covered in class during the week. We shall call this You Ask a Question (YAQ) and it will influence your final grade. Please send your questions to both Micah Webster and myself (gpatrick@math.uci.edu) using "YAQ" as subject line.
Apart from YAQ I encourage you to ask questions in class, in discussion sections and during office hours and to avoid the use of email to that purpose. I will not reply to emails not coming from a UCI address.
The syllabus serves only as a guideline and I might not always be following the syllabus lecture by lecture.


Grading and Exam Policy
Your final grade will be based on your performance in the Midterms (25% each) and in the final (40%) as well as on your taking active part in YAQ (10%).
Cheating will be accepted under no circumstances and whoever is caught cheating will automatically receive an F in the course and her/his Dean will be notified.
Only fully documented absences from exams justified in advance will be accepted. Unjustified no shows in an exam will be graded with an F.
I do not grade on the curve.


Some Tips
Solve Homework problems regularly.
Read the material covered in immediately preceding classes before coming to class.
Ask any questions you might have timely and do not wait until the last minute.
Discuss the material and the homework problems among yourselves and make use of the tutoring center.
Use homework assignments and quizzes to test your understanding of the material and your ability to solve problems within a time constraint.


Course Text
W. E. Boyce, R. C. DiPrima, Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, Wiley, VII Edition 2003.