Math 2280 § 2   Differential Equations   *Syllabus*    Feb. 4, 2002

                MTWF 11:55-12:45 in LCB 121
        
Web page:       http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/M2280.html
                (Official updates of the syllabus will be available here.)

Instructor:     A. Treibergs, JWB 224, 581­8350.  
                E-mail: treiberg@math.utah.edu.  
                Office Hours: 2:00-3:00 MWF (tent.) & by appt.

Text:           Edwards & Penney, Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary
                Value Problems 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2000.

Grading
    
    Homework:   You will be assigned weekly homework problems. We will discuss 
                these problems in class.

    MAPLE:      Every two weeks you will have a MAPLE assignment, which will be 
                posted on the class home page. We shall meet in the department's
                computer lab, South Physics 205. 

    Midterms:   There will be three full hour in class midterm exams on Jan. 30,
                Mar. 22 and Apr. 12. Questions will be modifications of homework
                problems. 

    Final exam: Friday, May 3 in LCB 121. Half of the final will be devoted to 
                material covered after the third midterm exam. The other half 
                will be comprehensive. Students must pass the final to pass the 
                course. 

  Course grade: Based on the best two of three midterm scores 40%, final
                exam 30% and homework 15% and MAPLE 15%

Tutoring Center:Free tutoring is available in the Math Tutoring Center, located 
                in Mines 210. It opens Jan. 9, hours M-Th 8:00 am-8:00 pm, 
                Fri 8:00 am-2:00 pm.

Withdrawals:    Last day to drop a class is Jan. 12. Last day to add a class is 
                Jan. 16. Until Mar. 15 you can withdraw from the class with no 
                approval at all. After that date you must petition your dean's 
                office to be allowed to withdraw.

ADA:            The Americans with Disability Act requires that reasonable accom-
                modations be provided for students with cognitive, systemic, 
                learning and psychiatric disabilities. Please contact me at the 
                beginning of the term to discuss any such accommodations you may 
                require for this course.

Course Content: Solving first order differential equations via separation of 
                variables. Linear equations. Numerical methods. Physical and 
                graphical motivations. Higher order equations.Vibrations, 
                resonance, electric circuits. Systems. Stability. Chaos. Laplace
                transform methods. Partial differential equations for heat, waves
                and electric potential via Fourier series.