Course Information
Fall 2004@ISU
- Course Description:
This course is intended to introduce students
basic procedures and techniques for solving ordinary differential equations.
First order equations, linear equations, constant coefficient equations. Eigenvalue methods for systems of first order linear
equations. Introduction to stability and phase plane analysis. Laplace transforms and
series solutions to ordinary differential equations.
- Textbook: Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems
by John Polking,
Albert Boggess and David
Arnold.
- Office: Carver
434, phone: (515) 294- 0392,
Email: hliu@iastate.edu
- Office
Hours: TRF
03:00P—04:00P or by appointment
- Lecture Meeting Time:
MTRF A2: 10:00A-10:50A Carver 0282; D1: 02:10P--03:00P Carver 0184.
- Homework: (1)
Ungraded HW:
Assignments from the textbook will be made for each class, which
are not meant to be handed in. Click
here to get an up-to-date list of problem assignments. I will take
a little class time once a week to go over some of the assigned homework.
(2)Graded Quiz
and HW: Selected problems from the
textbook (as in-class Quiz or HW) will
be collected for grading. These will be announced at the appropriate
time.
- Software: There will be some limited use of MATLAB in homework assignments. You
should find a computer system that you have easy access to on which
MATLAB can be run. Here is a Matlab
tutorial and
an ODE software.
- Exams:
There will be three hourly in-class exams and one two-hour final. Exam
problems will be similar to homework problems. I will clarify a few days
ahead of time what topics will be covered on each exam. Calculators are allowed on all exams unless
otherwise stated. But
no books, notes will be permitted in the exams. There will
be no make-up exam.
- Grading: The in-class
exams count 45% of your grade, the homework & quizz
counts 25%, and the final exam counts 30%. An appropriate scaling may be
applied at the end of the semester to determine the final grade.
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