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MONTH WEEK	DAY	Topic, Event	Section; Practice Problems	Assigned Problems
January
Chapter 2: First Order Equations
WEEK 1	10-14 January
	Mon 10	Course Introduction; Differential Equations and Solutions	Chapter 1 §1.3 #3,5,7,13,21,27 §2.1 #8,12,16,18	§2.1 #14,20
	Tue 11	Solutions to Separable Equations	§2.2 #3,9,13,17,27,39	§2.2 #8,16
	Thu 13	Models of Motion	§2.3 #3,6,11,12	§2.3 #8,14
	Fri 16	Linear Equations Quiz 1 (Pencil & Paper) Thru §2.2	§2.4 #3,9,13,15,21,23,29,33,39	§2.4 #10,20,26,32
WEEK 2	17-21 January
	Mon 17	Martin Luther King Day Holiday No class meeting
	Tue 18	Linear Equations (continued)
	Thu 20	Mixing Problems First Project Assignment: The Burning Lens Directions: [PostScript] [Acrobat] General Project Guidelines Team Assignments	§2.5 #1,2,3(a),9-11	§2.5 #4,8,14
	Fri 21	Exact Differential Equations Quiz 2 Thru §2.4	§2.6 #5,6,11,13,15,17,23,33,35	§2.6 #10,24,38
WEEK 3	24-28 January
	Mon 24	Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions Dependence of Solutions on Initial Conditions	§2.7 #5,6,9,27 §2.8 #1,17	§2.7 #28 §2.8 #16
	Tue 25	Autonomous Equations and Stability	§2.9 #3,5,7,9,17,19,23,25,27,31	§2.9 #4,20,26,28
Chapter 4: Second Order Equations
	Thu 27	Second Order Equations: Examples Solution to Problem 1 on Burning Lens Project Due.	§4.1 #3,7,11,14,15	§4.1 #2,6,10,18
	Fri 28	Second Order Equations and Systems Linear, Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients Quiz 3 Thru §2.6	§4.2 #3,5,7, §4.3 #5,9,11,15,17,19-21,23,29,31,33	§4.2 #6,18 §4.3 #4,10,16,22,26
WEEK 4	31 January - 4 February
	Mon 31	Harmonic Motion	§4.4 #7,9,11,15,21,25	§4.4 #8,18
February
	Tue 1
	Thu 3	Inhomogeneous Equations; Method of Undetermined Coefficients Burning Lens Project Report Due.	§4.5 #1-3,5,7,8,15-17,19,23,27,29,39,41	§4.5 #4,6,20,26,44
	Fri 4	Undetermined Coefficients, continued Quiz 4 Thru §4.3
WEEK 5	7 - 11 February
	Mon 7
	Tue 8	Variation of Parameters	§4.6 #3,5,7,13	§4.6 #8,14
	Thu 10	Forced Harmonic Motion	§4.7 #1-3,13,15,17,31,43	§4.7 #10,14,18,36
Chapter 5: The Laplace Transform
	Fri 11	Definition of the Laplace Transform Quiz 5 Thru §4.5	§5.1 #1-9 odd,13	§5.1 #8,14
WEEK 6	14 - 18 February
	Mon 14	Basic Properties of the Laplace Transform The Inverse Laplace Transform	§5.2 #1-17 odd,21,23,27,33,37,41 §5.3 #1,5,9,13,17,21,25,29,33	§5.2 #18,24,36,40 §5.3 #8,18,28
	Tue 15	Solving Differential Equations with the Laplace Transform	§5.4 #3,7,11,13,23,31,35,37	§5.4 #10,16,24,36
	Thu 17
	Fri 18	Discontinuous Forcing Terms Quiz 6 Thru §5.2	§5.5 #3,13,15,17,25,27,31	§5.5 #8,18,28,30
WEEK 7	21 - 25 February
	Mon 21	The Delta Function Review of Chapter 2.	§5.6 #3,7,9	§5.6 #4,8
Chapter 7: Matrix Algebra
	Tue 22	Vectors and Matrices Review of Chapter 4.	§7.1 #1,3,7,17,27,31,35,39,49,53	§7.1 #16,30,54
	Thu 24	Review of Chapter 5.
	Fri 25	Midterm Exam Chapters 2, 4 and 5. My 1999 Midterm Exam: [PostScript] [Acrobat] (It did not cover Laplace transforms.) 2005 Exam, sample solutions: [PostScript] [Acrobat]
WEEK 8	28 February - 4 March
	Mon 28	Geometry of Linear Systems Solving Linear Systems	§7.2 #5,7 §7.3 #3,7,11,15,17	§7.2 #6,8 §7.3 #16
March
	Tue 1	Properties of Solution Sets Subspaces	§7.4 #3,5,9,11,15,19	§7.4 #6,12,20
Chapter 8: An Introduction to Systems
	Thu 3	Definitions, Examples Geometric Interpretation of Solutions Second Project Assignment: Sawtooth-Driven Oscillator Directions: [PostScript] [Acrobat] General Project Guidelines Team Assignments (Revised 8 March)	§8.1 #5,7,11,13,19 §8.2 #5,11,13,29	§8.1 #6,12 §8.2 #4,10
	Fri 4	Qualitative Analysis Quiz 7 Thru §7.3	§8.3 #3,5,9,11	§8.3 #2,10
WEEK 9	7 - 11 March
	Mon 7	Linear Systems	§8.4 #5,11,17	§8.4 #10,12,16,18
Chapter 9: Linear Systems with Constant Coefficients
	Tue 8	Determinants Constant-coefficient Linear Systems: Technique	§7.6 #7,9,15 §9.1 #1,5,9,13,17,21,25	§7.6 #8 §9.1 #4,10,18
	Thu 10	Solution to Problems 1-2 on Sawtooth-Driven Oscillator Due.
	Fri 11	Quiz 8 Thru Chapter 8.
SPRING RECESS 14 - 18 MARCH
WEEK 10	22 - 26 March
	Mon 21	Planar Systems	§9.2 #1,5,7,11,13,19,21,27,33,41,47	§9.2 #6,12,24,30,38,44
	Tue 22	Phase Plane Portraits	§9.3 #1,5,9-12,17,21,25,29,33	§9.3 #14,16,20,28,34
	Thu 24	Higher Dimensional Systems The Exponential of a Matrix Sawtooth-Driven Oscillator Report Due.	§9.4 #3,7,13,21,27 §9.5 #1,6,7,13,25,33,35	§9.4 #22,28 §9.5 #16,20,26
	Fri 25	Qualitative Analysis of Linear Systems Quiz 9 Thru §9.2	§9.6 #3,7,11	§9.6 #6,10
WEEK 11	28 March - 1 April
	Mon 28	Higher-Order Linear Equations	§9.7 #11,15,19,23,27,31	§9.7 #18,24,30
	Tue 29	Inhomogeneous Linear Systems	§9.8 #3,7,11,15,19,23,25	§9.8 #2,6,14,20,24
Chapter 10: Nonlinear Systems
	Thu 31	Linearization of a Nonlinear System	§10.1 #3,7,19	§10.1 #8,18
April
	Fri 1	Long-Term Behavior of Solutions Quiz 10 Thru §9.7	§10.2 #3,7,11,15	§10.2 #6,12
WEEK 12	4 - 8 April
	Mon 4	Nullclines and Invariant Sets	§10.3 #1,5,9,13,17	§10.3 #2,6,10
	Tue 5	Long-Term Behavior in Planar Systems	§10.4 #3,5,7,11(a)-(c),23,25	§10.4 #4,12
	Thu 7	Conserved Quantities	§10.5 #3,7,9,13,17,19,21,23,25	§10.5 #2,12(i),22
	Fri 8	Nonlinear Mechanics Quiz 11 thru §10.3	§10.6 #3,5,7,11,13,15,17	§10.6 #4,12,18
WEEK 13	11 - 15 April
	Mon 11	Lyapunov's Method	§10.7 #3,7,11,15,17	§10.7 #20,26
	Tue 12	Predator-Prey Systems	§10.8 #1,5,6
	Thu 14	Third Project Assignment: Oscillations of Linear Molecules Directions: Project 9.10, pp. 539-544, Problems 1-8. General Project Guidelines Team Assignments
Chapter 11: Series Solutions to Differential Equations
	Fri 15	Review of Power Series Quiz 12 Thru §10.6	§11.1 #3,7,11,15,17,21,25,27,29	§11.1 #22
	WEEK 14	18 - 22 April TV Turnoff Week
	Mon 18	Series solutions near ordinary points Legendre's Equation	§11.2 #1,5,9,13,17,23,25 §11.3 #5,7	§11.2 #16 §11.3 #6
	Tue 19
	Thu 21
	Fri 22	Quiz 13 Thru §11.2
WEEK 15	25 - 29 April
	Mon 25	REVIEW of Chapters 7-8
	Tue 26	REVIEW of Chapter 9
	Thu 28	REVIEW of Chapter 10 Oscillations of Linear Molecules Report Due.
	Fri 29	REVIEW of Chapter 11 Quiz 14 Thru §11.3
May
FINAL EXAM WEEK	2 - 6 May
	Wed 4	FINAL EXAM 7-9PM, 1 Carver. Final Exam given Fall Semester, 1999: [PostScript] [Acrobat]