Calendar

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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. 

The schedule below is only tentative and the content may change. Please check this page regularly for updates.

Week 1

• Day 01 - Monday 01/08 - Sections 1.1 and 1.2: Intro to ODEs and the Initial Value Problem (IVP)

• No discussion this week. Please work on Worksheet 0 which is available from Canvas instead

• Day 02 - Wednesday 01/10 - Sections 1.2 and 1.3: IVP (cont.) and Direction Field 

• Day 03 - Friday 01/12 -  Section 2.2: Separable Equations

• Worksheet 0 due Friday 01/12 at 11:59pm on Gradescope

Week 2

• Monday 01/15 - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday - no lecture, no discussion, no office hour

• Day 04 - Wednesday 01/17 - Section 2.3: First-order Linear ODEs

• Day 05 - Friday 01/19 - Section 2.4: Exact Equations

• Homework 1 due Friday 01/19 at 11:59pm on Pearson MyLab

Week 3

• Day 06 - Monday 01/22 - 2.4 (cont.) - Sections 4.2 and 4.3: Homogeneous 2nd-Order Linear Equations 

• Discussion 1 - Friday 01/26

• Day 07 - Wednesday 01/24 -  Sections 4.2 and 4.3 (cont.)

• MatLab 1 due Wednesday 01/24 at 11:59pm on Gradescope

• Day 08 - Friday 01/26 - 4.2 and 4.3 (cont.); 4.4 and 4.5: Non-homogeneous Equations and the Method of Undetermined Coefficients

• Homework 2 due Friday 01/26 at 11:59pm on Pearson MyLab

Week 4

• Day 09 - Monday 01/29 - Section 4.5: Method of Undetermined Coefficients and the Principle of Superposition

• Discussion 2 - Monday 01/29 //End of Midterm 1 materials

• Day 10 - Wednesday 01/31 - 4.5 (cont.); Midterm 1 Review 

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

• Midterm 1: Friday 02/02, 6:00 - 8:00pm in MOS 0114 (cover materials from Days 01-10, HWs 1-3, and DIs 1, 2)

• Homework 3 due Friday 02/02 at 11:59pm on Pearson MyLab

Week 5

• Day 12 - Monday 02/05 -  Section 4.7: Cauchy-Euler Equations 

• Discussion 3 - Monday 02/05 

• Day 13 - Wednesday 02/07 - Sections 4.7: Reduction of Order

• MatLab 2 due Wednesday 02/07 at 11:59pm on Gradescope

• Day 14 - Friday 02/09 - 9.1 - Matrices and Systems of Linear ODEs

• Homework 4 due Friday 02/09 at 11:59pm on Pearson MyLab

Week 6

• Day 15 - Monday 02/12 - Sections 9.2 and 9.3: A Crash Course in Linear Algebra - Fundamental Operations (recordings) and Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors ("live" lecture)

• Discussion 4 - Monday 02/12

• Day 16 - Wednesday 02/14 - Sections 9.4, 9.5, and 9.6: Matrix Method for Linear Systems - the case of distinct, real-valued eigenvalues

• Day 17 - Friday 02/16 - Sections 9.4, 9.5, and 9.6: Matrix Method for Linear Systems - the case of complex eigenvalues

• Homework 5 due Friday 02/16 at 11:59pm on Pearson MyLab

Week 7

• Monday 02/19 - Presidents' Day - no lecture, no discussion, no office hour

• Day 18 - Wednesday 02/21 - Sections 9.4, 9.5, and 9.6: Matrix Method for Linear Systems - the case of repeated eigenvalues

• MatLab 3 due Wednesday 02/21 at 11:59pm on Gradescope

• Day 19 - Friday 02/23 -  More on the case of repeated evals + Section 9.7: Non-homogeneous Linear Systems

• Homework 6 due Friday 02/23 at 11:59pm on Pearson MyLab

Week 8

• Day 20 - Monday 02/26 -  Section 9.7 (cont.) and Midterm 2 Review

• Discussion 5 - Monday 02/26 //End of Midterm 2 materials (note: 9.7 is NOT part of Midterm 2)

• Day 21 - Wednesday 02/28 - Sections 7.2 + 7.3: Definition and properties of Laplace Transforms

• Day 22 - Friday 03/01 - Sections 7.2 + 7.3 (cont.) 

• Midterm 2: Friday 03/01, 6:00 - 8:00pm in MOS 0114  (cover materials from Days 11-20, HWs 4-7, and DIs 3-5)

• Homework 7 due Friday 03/01 Sunday 03/03 at 11:59pm on Pearson MyLab (this change was made so that students have more time to work on the exercises from Section 9.7 after the second midterm)

Week 9

• Day 23 - Monday 03/04 - Sections 7.4 + 7.5: Inverse Laplace Transform and its application in solving IVP

• Discussion 6 - Monday 03/04

• Day 24 - Wednesday 03/06 - Sections 7.4 + 7.5 (cont.)

• MatLab 4 due Wednesday 03/06 at 11:59pm on Gradescope

• Day 25 - Friday 03/08 -  Sections 7.6 and 7.7: Laplace Transform of Unit Step Functions 

• Homework 8 due Friday 03/08 at 11:59pm on Pearson MyLab

Week 10

• Day 26 - Monday 03/11 -  Sections 7.7 (cont.) 

• Discussion 7 - Monday 03/11

• Day 27 - Wednesday 03/13 - 7.9 - Laplace Transform Dirac Delta Function 

• MatLab Quiz: from 0:00am Wednesday 03/13  to 11:59pm Thursday 03/14 

• Day 28 - Friday 13/15 - Section 7.9 (cont.) and some review on Laplace transform

• Homework 9 due Friday 03/15 at 11:59pm on Pearson MyLab

Week 11

• Homework 10 due Friday 03/22 at 2:59pm (notice the earlier due time)

• Final Exam: Friday 03/22 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm in Ledden Auditorium (our regular lecture hall)