All blank notes are available on Canvas under the "Files" folder. Please read through the notes and have them with you during lecture for better note-taking. Annotated notes will also be posted on Canvas shortly after each lecture meeting. 

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The titles under each day correspond to the respective sections in the textbook. This is just a tentative schedule and is subjected to changes throughout the course. 

Week 1

• Day 01 - Monday 01/09 - 1.1 and 1.2: Intro to ODEs and the Initial Value Problem (IVP)

• Day 02 - Wednesday 01/11 -  1.2 and 1.3: IVP (cont.) and Direction Field 

• Day 03 - Friday 01/13 - 2.2: Separable Equations

Week 2

• Monday 01/16 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday - no class 

• Day 04 - Wednesday 01/18 -  2.3: First-order Linear ODEs

• HW1 due Wednesday 01/18 at 11:59pm

• Day 05 - Friday 01/20 - 2.4: Exact Equations

• MatLab 1 due Friday 01/20 at 11:59pm

Week 3

• Day 06 - Monday 01/23 - 4.2 and 4.3: Homogeneous 2nd-Order Linear Equations 

• Day 07 - Wednesday 01/25 -  4.2 and 4.3: Homogeneous 2nd-Order Linear Equations (cont.)

• HW2 due Wednesday 01/25 at 11:59pm

• Day 08 - Friday 01/27 - 4.4 and 4.5: Non-homogeneous Equations and the Method of Undetermined Coefficients

Week 4

• Day 09 - Monday 01/30 - Midterm 1 Review 

• Day 10 - Wednesday 02/01 - 4.5: Method of Undetermined Coefficients and the Principle of Superposition

• Midterm 1 - Wednesday 02/01, 7:00 - 8:50pm in CENTER 115 - covering materials from Days 01-09

• HW3 due Wednesday 02/01 at 11:59pm

• Day 11 - Friday 02/03 - 4.6: Method of Variation of Parameters

• MatLab 2 due Friday 02/03 at 11:59pm

Week 5

• Day 12 - Monday 02/06 - 4.7: Cauchy-Euler Equations and Reduction of Order 

• Day 13 - Wednesday 02/08 -  4.7: Reduction of Order (cont.) and 9.1 - Matrices and Systems of Linear ODEs

• HW4 due Wednesday 02/08 at 11:59pm

• Day 14 - Friday 02/10 - 9.2 and 9.3: A Crash Course in Linear Algebra - Fundamental Operations (recordings) and Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors ("live" lecture)

Week 6

*The schedule was updated on 02/12

• Day 15 - Monday 02/13 -  9.4, 9.5, and 9.6: Matrix Method for Linear Systems - the case of distinct, real-valued eigenvalues

• Day 16 - Wednesday 02/15 - 9.4, 9.5, and 9.6: Matrix Method for Linear Systems - the case of complex eigenvalues

• HW5 due Wednesday 02/15 at 11:59pm

• Day 17 - Friday 02/17 - More on the case of complex Eigenvalues and 5.4: Phase Plane of 2x2 Systems

• MatLab 3 due Friday 02/17 at 11:59pm

Week 7

*The schedule was updated on 02/22

• Monday 02/20 - Presidents' Day Holiday - no class 

• Day 18 - Wednesday 02/22 - 9.4, 9.5, and 9.6: Matrix Method for Linear Systems - the case of repeated eigenvalues

• HW6 due Wednesday 02/22 at 11:59pm

• Day 19 - Friday 02/24 - 9.7: Non-homogeneous Linear Systems

Week 8

• Day 20 - Monday 02/27 - Midterm 2 Review

• Day 21 - Wednesday 03/01 -  7.2 and 7.3: Definition and properties of Laplace Transforms

• Midterm 2 - Wednesday 03/01, 7:00 - 8:50pm in CENTER 115 - covering materials from Days 10-20

• Day 22 - Friday 03/03 - 7.2 and 7.3: Definition and properties of Laplace Transforms (cont.)

• HW7 due Friday 03/03 at 11:59pm

• MatLab 4 due Friday 03/03 at 11:59pm

Week 9

• Day 23 - Monday 03/06 - 7.4 and 7.5: Inverse Laplace Transform and its application in solving IVP

• Day 24 - Wednesday 03/08 -  7.4 and 7.5: Inverse Laplace Transform and its application in solving IVP (cont.)

• HW8 due Wednesday 03/08 at 11:59pm

• Day 25 - Friday 03/10 - 7.6 and 7.7: Laplace Transform of Unit Step Functions 

Week 10

• Day 26 - Monday 03/13 - 7.7 (cont.) and 7.9 - Laplace Transform Dirac Delta Function 

• Day 27 - Wednesday 03/15 -  7.9 - Laplace Transform Dirac Delta Function 

• HW9 due Wednesday 03/15 at 11:59pm

• Day 28 - Friday 03/17 - Final Review

Week 11

• HW10 due Wednesday 03/22 at 2:59pm

• Final Exam - Wednesday 03/22 - 3:00 - 5:59pm in CENTER 115 (our regular classroom)