Math 2280 § 1   Differential Equations   *Syllabus*    Aug. 11, 2005

                MTWF 9:40 - 10:30 in LCB 215
        
Web page:       http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/M2282.html
                (Official updates of the syllabus and homework assignments will 
                be available here.)

Instructor:     A. Treibergs, JWB 224, 581-8350.  
                E-mail: treiberg@math.utah.edu.  
                Office Hours: 10:45 - 11:35 MWF (tent.) & by appt.

Text:           Edwards & Penney, Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary
                Value Problems 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2004.  You may also use
                the previous edition, Edwards & Penney, Elementary Differential
                Equations with Boundary Value Problems 2nd ed., Prentice Hall,
                2000. The new edition is only slightly extended beyond the 
                second. The HW list gives problem numbers from both editions.


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, LCB 115. 

    Midterms:   There will be three full hour in class midterm exams on Wed., 
                Sept. 21, Wed., Oct. 19 and Wed., Nov. 16. Questions will be 
                modifications of homework problems. 

    Final exam: Friday, Dec. 16 in LCB 215 from 8:00 a.m. - 10 a.m. 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 36%, final
                exam 27%, homework 24% and MAPLE 13%.

Tutoring Center:Free tutoring is available in the Rushing Mathematics Center, 
                located between JWB and LCB. Hours M-Th 8:00 am-8:00 pm, 
                Fri 8:00 am-6:00 pm, starting Aug. 31. Information for the center
                is at  http://www.math.utah.edu/ugrad/mathcenter.html

Withdrawals:    Last day to drop a class is Sept. 2. Until Oct. 21 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.