DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH MATRICES
SM222 SPRING SEMESTER 2004-2005
Textbook: Fundamentals of Differential equations, 6th ed., by R. K. Nagle, E. B. Saff, A. D. Snider, Addison-Wesley (Pearson), 2004.

You will be receiving the syllabus in four installments (one syllabus covers the material for the next hour exam). For some lessons/problems, you may have to use Maple or the TI92 or another software package to solve and plot, by numerical means, the indicated problem. Such problems need to be solved and plotted by numerical means since these problems may not have an explicit solution written as elementary functions. These problems may help you understand the usefulness of approximation methods.

LESSON/PAGES TOPICS PROBLEMS



1. 1-5 1.1 Definitions and terminology p. 5: 1,7,8,11,14,15
2. 6-11 1.2 Solutions and IVPs p.14: 3,6,10,11,20(a),22,29,31
3. 16-21 1.3 Direction Fields p.22: 1,3, 5,6ab
4. 24-27 1.4  Numerical solutions: Euler's method p.28: 2,4,5CP
5. 32-33 B. Approximating solutions: Picard's method p.33: a,b CP
6. 40-45 2.2 Separable DEs p.46: 4,5,6,7,10,12,18,23
7. 49-54 2.3 Linear DEs
p.54: 2,3,7,9,10,19,21
8. review
9. 101-103 3.3 Applications (heating/cooling) p.107: 1,2,5
10. 108-113 3.4 Applications (Newtonian mechanics) p.115: 1,2,7
11. 119-122 3.5 Applications (Electrical circuits) p.122: 1,3,7
12., 13. review/Test 1

SM222 has overlaps significantly with SM212 (coordinated by Prof. Joyner). You may want to take advantage of the resources posted on his web page:




popovici@usna.edu, last updated 01-03-2005