Office hours: Friday from 9am- noon in Skye 259
Email: nchie005@ucr.edu
Please feel free to contact me with any questions via email. If the office hours times do not work for you and you would like to meet, don't hesitate to reach out!
*All material is supplementary and is not to be used as the primary material for the course.
Color coding of notes:
Black - Theorems, Lemmas, Context, Writing in General
Grey - Reserved for proofs
Green - Definitions
Red - Examples, Exercises
Blue - Remarks, Clarification, Justification
Week 0 - Review of product and chain rule
Key takeaways:
Recall the derivative rules. Most notably product and chain rule.
Recall how to apply product and chain rule.
Week 1 - Review of implicit differentiation and solutions for linear ODE
Key takeaways:
Can take implicit derivatives when variables are all functions of another. See examples in notes.
Can identify if the ODE is linear and requires integrating factor method.
Knows how to find the general solution when applying integrating factor method.
Week 2 - Review of Bernoulli and separable equations
Key takeaways:
Understands the relationship between Bernoulli and linear equations.
Can identify and find solutions to Bernoulli equations.
Can identify and find solutions to separable equations.
Week 3 - Review of homogenous and exact equations
Key takeaways:
Understands the relation between homogenous and separable equations.
Can identify and find solutions to homogenous equations.
Can identify and find solutions to exact equations.
Week 4 - Exam review
Key takeaways:
Can identify and solve the 5 different ODEs: linear, Bernoulli, separable, homogeneous, and exact.
Can setup and solve the three application problems: Newton's law of cooling, falling body problem, and mixing problems.
Can sketch a direction field when given an ODE.
Can approximate solutions of an IVP problem using Euler's method.
Week 5 - Review of second order constant coefficient homogeneous case.
Key takeaways:
Understands how a characteristic polynomial relates to the problem.
Knows the three cases that arise depending on the characterstic polynomial.
Knows the corresponding general solution depending on each case from the characteristic polynomial.
Can solve IVP problems for second order constant coefficient homogeneous case.
No office hours this week. For any questions or help please feel free to email me.
Week 6 -