Math 33b

Differential Equations, Spring 2009

• HOMEWORK PAGE is a continuously updated list of due homework.
• Instructor: Arthur Szlam
  • Office : MS 7619b
  • Office Hours: Thursday 2-4
• Lecture: MWF, 11:00pm-11:50pm, HAINES 39
• Virtual Office Hours. are for you to ask questions, answer each others questions, and get answers from the TA and myself. They will also be used to make some announcements.
• Textbook : Polking, Bogess, and Arnold, Differential Equations ; available at the bookstore.
• Please read sections of the book before the lecture, and then again after. You will find this makes it much easier to learn new material.
• General Course Outline: Math 33b - Outline
• Additional HELP: (of which SMC - Student Math Center and Covel Science Tutorials are free for any registered undergraduate).
• Grading : 20% homework, 20% midterm, 20% quizzes (4 or 5), 40% final. The lowest homework and quiz score will be dropped.
  
• The midterm will be Monday, May 4th.
  
• Some Links:
  • A really cool toy! You can use Dfield for your homework.
    
  • Proof of existence and uniqueness for ODE. See pages 81-90.
    
  • The first two sections of the text.
    
  • A matrix calculator.
    
  • Notes on a wanderer traveling randomly on points on a circle.
    
  • Notes on the heat equation and Fourier series.
    
  • Quiz 1 solutions.
    
  • Quiz 2 solutions.
    
  • Quiz 3 solutions.
    
  • Quiz 4 solutions.
    
  • Midterm solutions.