MATH 304, Section 2 -- Ordinary Differential Equations, Fall 2004

• Syllabus and Schedule

  • Course Syllabus
  • Course Schedule, revised, 11/4/04

• Class Notes, Examples, etc.

  • Problem Set 1 solutions (.pdf)
  • Logistic growth with periodic harvesting -- a Maple example (class September 15-17)
  • Solutions of X' = AX -- a Maple example (class September 27)
  • Exam 1 solutions (.pdf)
  • Example from class 11/8.
  • Example from class 11/10 (different possible behaviors for non-linear system with an equilibrium point whose linearization has a center.
  • Discussion/Lab 3 solutions
  • Final Exam and solutions

• Assignments

  • Problem Set 1 -- From section 1.2 of Blanchard, Devaney and Hall: 2,3,8,11,15,17,18,19,25,28,31,35,37,40; From section 1.8: 1,4,9,12 -- Due: Friday, September 10.
  • Discussion 1 -- Due: Monday, September 13. (.pdf)
  • Problem Set 2 -- Due: Friday, September 17. (.pdf)
  • Lab Day 1 -- Writeups Due: Friday, September 24.
  • Problem Set 3 -- From Chapter 1 of Hirsch, Smale and Devaney: 12,14. Due: Friday, September 24. (Note: same day as the lab--think of the lab this week as part of the weekly problem set.)
  • Discussion 2 -- Due: Monday, October 4. (.pdf)
  • Problem Set 4 -- Chapter 2 of Hirsch, Smale, Devaney: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,14 -- Due: Friday, October 8.
  • Problem Set 5 -- Chapter 3 of Hirsch, Smale, Devaney: 1, 2 systems i,iii,v only, 3, 6, 8, 9 -- Due: Wednesday, October 20.
  • Problem Set 6 -- Section 3.6 of Blanchard, Devaney, and Hall: 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 35, 36, 40 -- Due: Friday, October 29.
  • Problem Set 7/Lab Day 2 -- lab sheet. -- Due: Friday, November 5.
  • Problem Set 8 -- Chapter 6 of Hirsch, Smale, and Devaney: 1abce,3,4,5,6 -- Due: Friday, November 12.
  • Discussion/Lab 3 -- writeups due Monday, November 22.
  • Discussion/Lab 4 -- writeups due Tuesday, December 7.

• Information and Announcements

  • Final Exam: 8:30 - 11:30 am on Thursday, December 16. To help you prepare:
    • Final Exam review sheet
    • Midterm Exam 1 review sheet
    • Midterm Exam 2 review sheet
  • Review session for final Monday, December 13, starting at 11:30am, in our regular class room (SW 330).
  • Information on Maple on the Sun workstation network.
  • Information on Unix on the Sun workstation network.
  • A Maple programming primer. This file is also available as a Maple worksheet at mathcs.holycross.edu/~little/NA9899/ProgPrim.mws. You can copy it and experiment, modify it, etc.

• Related Links

  • ODE software from Rice University. This does the same sort of direction field and phase portrait plots as Maple, but in a Java applet. So you can run it from any computer with a web browser and Java.

Last modified: December 17, 2004