Math 308: Differential Equations

Section II, Spring 2008

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@messiah.edu

Office: Frey 327

Office Hours: M 1:30-3:30, T 1-2, 3:30-4:30, W 1-2

Textbook: Zill, Differential Equations with Modeling Applications (eighth edition).

Class Meetings: MWF 10:20 - 11:20, Frey 343

Final Exam: 8:00-10:00, Friday May 9

Other Materials

• Syllabus (67KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Project 1 (52KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Project 2 (62KB pdf) LaTeX source
  • Data file (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) (13 KB ods)
  • Data file (Excel) (16 KB xls)
• Project 3 (47KB pdf) LaTeX source

Coming Attractions

2/13: Homework #1 due

Section 1.1 12, 13, 19 (just verify), 22, 25, 27b, 28a, 51, 54
Section 1.2 3, 4, 7, 35-38
Section 2.1 1, 5, 8 (do this one by hand), 20, 21, 26, 30, 33, 39 (assume g is positive)

2/20: Homework #2 due

Section 2.6 1, 2, 6 (just do h=.1)
Section 2.2 6, 7, 10, 19, 45
Section 2.3 5, 12, 17, 25, 46
Section 3.1 4, 5, 12 (see "Example 3" to get started), 38

2/27: Homework #3 due

Section 3.1 13, 17, 27
Section 3.2 1 (use a computer for integration in b), 3
Section 2.4 2, 3, 13, 25, 44

2/29: Project #1 due

 

3/5: Homework #4 due

Section 2.5 18, 21, 37, 38
Section 4.1 2, 3, 5, 14a,b, 17, 19, 20, 21, 31, 40

3/7: Exam I

 

3/12: Homework #5 due

Section 4.2 2, 3, 6
Section 4.3 4, 7, 8, 18, 34

3/26: Homework #6 due

Section 4.3 13, 23, 24, 26, 43-48, 57
Section 5.1 3, 4, 21, 23

3/28: Project #2 due

 

4/2: Homework #7 due

Section 4.4 1, 4, 5, 8, 31, 41

4/9: Homework #8 due

Section 4.4 19
Section 4.5 1, 2, 5, 9, 12, 13, 15, 19, 41, 44, 48, 51
Section 5.1 33, 45, 48

4/11: Exam II

 

4/18: Project #3 due

 

4/23: Homework #9 due

Section 4.6 3, 11, 12
Section 7.1 3, 4, 10, 12, 23, 25, 27, 32, 41b, 42
Section 7.2 5, 12, 13, 15, 19, 20, 32, 37, 42, 44
Section 7.3 4, 8, 15, 22, 23

4/30: Homework #10 due

Section 7.3 40, 43, 44, 47, 49-54, 64
Section 7.4 1, 2, 6, 12, 19, 22
Section 7.5 1, 2, 4, 10

Final homework (not collected)

Section 7.4 28, 33, 37
Section 7.6 1, 4, 5
Section 9.2 3, 4 (use a bigger h value to make these less tedious)

5/9: Final Exam

8:00-10:00