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Session Section and Topic Pages WeBWorK Assignment (tentative – each homework will be finalized before it is assigned) Suggested Problems (these problems are for extra practice ONLY – they will not be collected)
1 Tuesday, 1/29 1.2 First Order Equations
[OPTIONAL: 1.3 Direction Fields for First Order Equations]
7-13
16-17
1-Review p.14: 1, 2(a-c,e-h), 4(a-f), 5, 6,
[optional: p. 14: 9 and p. 21: 1-11]
2 Thursday, 1/31 2.1 Linear First Order Equations 30-41 2-NonHomogeneousLinear p.41: 1-9 odd, 17-23 odd, 31-37 odd, 38, 40, 42
3 Tuesday, 2/5 2.2 Separable Equations 45-52 3-Separable p.52: 2, 3, 6, 12, 17-27 odd, 28, 35, 37
4 Thursday, 2/7 2.4 Transformation of Nonlinear Equations into Separable Equations 62-68 4-Bernoulli-nosub
4b-Homogeneous-YoverX
p.68: 1-4, 7-11 odd, 15-18, 23-27 odd
Tuesday, 2/12 Lincoln’s Birthday
5 Thursday, 2/14 2.5 Exact Equations 73-79 5-Exact p.79: 1-21 odd, 29, 30, 33, 34
6 Tuesday, 2/19 4.1 Growth and Decay
4.2 Cooling and Mixing
4.3 Elementary Mechanics
130-137
140-147
151-160
6-Modeling1-PopulationAndCooling p.138: 1-7 odd, 11, 13, 17
p.148: 1-11 odd, 15
p.160: 3, 5, 7, 10
7 Thursday, 2/21 4.1/4.2/4.3 cont’d 6b-Modeling2-FallingObjects
8 Tuesday, 2/26 First Examination
9 Thursday, 2/28 3.1 Euler’s Method 96-106 7-Trench-EulersMethod p.106: 1-7 odd, 11-13, 15-19 odd, 20-22
10 Tuesday, 3/5 3.2 The Improved Euler Method and Related Methods 109-116 7b-Trench-ImprovedEulersMethod p.116: 1-7 odd, 11-13, 15-19 odd, 20-22
11 Thursday, 3/7 3.3 The Runge-Kutta Method 119-124 TBD p.124: 1-7 odd, 11-13, 15-19 odd, 20-22
12 Tuesday, 3/12 5.1 Homogeneous Linear Equations 194-203 6-BasicSecondOrder p.203: 1-5
13 Thursday, 3/14 5.2 Constant Coefficient Homogeneous Equations 210-217 7-SecondOrderRepeated
8-SecondOrderComplex
p.217: 1-17 odd, 18-21
14 Tuesday, 3/19 5.3 Nonhomogeneous Linear Equations 221-227 9-Nonhomogeneous p.227: 1-5 odd, 9-13 odd, 16-20 even, 25-29 odd, 33-37 odd
15 Thursday, 3/21 5.4 The Method of Undetermined Coefficients I 229-235 9-Nonhomogeneous p.235: 1-29 odd
16 Tuesday, 3/26 Second Examination
17 Thursday, 3/28 5.6 Reduction of Order 248-252 10-Trench-ReductionOfOrder p.253: 1-3, 5, 9, 13, 17, 19, 25, 31
18 Tuesday, 4/2 5.7 Variation of Parameters 255-262 p.262: 1-5, 7, 11, 13, 31, 33, 34
19 Thursday, 4/4 6.1 Spring Problems I
6.2 Spring Problems II
268-277
279-284
TBD p.277: 1, 3, 7-13 odd, 19, 21
p.288: 3, 4, 7-11 odd, 14-16
20 Tuesday, 4/9 6.2 Spring Problems II (continued)
6.3 The RLC Circuit
284-287
290-295
TBD p.288: 13, 17-20
p.295: 1-10
21 Thursday, 4/11 7.1 Review of Power Series
7.2 Series Solutions Near an Ordinary Point I
307-316
320-328
TBD p.317: 1, 11, 13, 15-17
p.329: 1, 3, 8, 11-13, 19-25 odd
22 Tuesday, 4/16 7.3 Series Solutions Near an Ordinary Point II 335-338 TBD p.338: 1-5 odd, 19-23 odd, 33-37 odd, 41-45 odd
23 Thursday, 4/18 Third Examination
Tuesday, 4/23 Spring Break
Thursday, 4/25 Spring Break
24 Tuesday, 4/30 7.4 Regular Singular Points Euler Equations 344-346 TBD p.347: 1-12
25 Thursday, 5/2 8.1 Introduction to the Laplace Transform 394-402 TBD p.403: 1(a,b,d,e), 2(b,c,f,g,h,i), 4, 5, 18
26 Tuesday, 5/7 8.2 The Inverse Laplace Transform
[NOTE: use the table on p.463 of the textbook to do the homework]
405-412 TBD p.412: 1(a,b,d,e), 2(a-e), 3(a-d), 4(a,d,e), 6(a), 7(a), 8(a,d)
27 Thursday, 5/9 8.3 Solution of Initial Value Problems
[NOTE: use the table on p.463 of the textbook to do the homework]
414-419 TBD p.419: 1-31 odd
28 Tuesday, 5/14 8.6 Convolutions
[NOTE: use the table on p.463 of the textbook to do the homework]
441-445 TBD p.450: 2(a,b,c,i,j,l,n), 3(a-c,e-g)
29 Thursday, 5/16 Review
30 Tuesday, 5/21 Final Examination