Math 319 Syllabus.
Fall semester 1998


Instructor: Sigurd Angenent
Office: Van Vleck 617
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 4:30-5:30pm
Lecture location and time: B219 Van Vleck Hall, Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 9:55-10:45am
Text book: Elementary differential Equations and Boundary value problems, by Boyce and DiPrima, sixth edition.
Last homework assignment:
The last assignment was:
7.6: problem 20,
9.3: problem 14,
9.4: problem 3, 5, 20,
9.5: problem 1,4,
Of these I showed you how to do 7.6/20, 9.3/14 and 9.4/20 in class.
The answers to the others are in the back of the book.
There is a website at Penn State where you can make pictures of phase planes by just typing in the equations and picking points in the plane (the applet on the website then draws the trajectory through your given point.) You're wellcome to try it and see if you can reproduce your answers to the homework problems.
In any case I will have my usual office hours on wednesday afternoon, and will be in my office most of wednesday afternoon and thursday 2pm-4pm.

Exams, homework and grades.
 (Including exam location)


Topics to be covered


Extra Notes and problems:

  1. The extra problem sheet
  2. The Complex form of the solution to second order equations.
  3. 1st midterm spring 1998 and solutions. This exam contains the problems assigned as homework.
  4. 2nd midterm spring 1998
  5. Final exam spring 1996.
  6. Final exam spring 1998.
  7. Midterm1 and Midterm2 from 1996. From the first midterm only questions 1 and 3 are relevant to our course. The exam was an in-class exam, and therefore shorter than our exam will be.


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