DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS I
MAP 2302-11378

Summer 2003

New items:
Take Home Test: A link to the pdf version of this test has been added at the bottom. If you missed the class of 7/2/03, make sure you check it out.
I am allowing students to make up for exam 1, on Wednesday, June 25, 5-6:05PM.The time and date are still subject to change, the place is to be announced.
Make-up Rules If you decide to take the make-up, you will have to let me know by 10AM, June 24. If your grade in the original exam was 65 or less, then your final grade for exam 1 will be the higher one of the two grades (original and make-up). If your grade was 66 or higher, then the make-up grade supplants the original grade.

Instructor: Tomas Schonbek
S & E 218, Ext. 7-3355
e-mail schonbek@fau.edu
Office Hours: MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM
or by appointment
Textbook: Elementary Differential Equations
by
W.E. Boyce and R.C. DiPrima
Seventh Edition, Wiley & Sons, 2001

Course Description

Contents

The course is a standard, first course in ordinary differential equations. The main prerequisite is calculus of one variable. A few notions of calculus of several variables will come into play, but they will be covered in the course. We will emphasize a practical, manipulative approach to differential equations, but a certain amount of theory and applications are covered. We expect students not only to be able to solve a number of differential equations, but also to know what it means to solve such an equation and what the solutions are good for.

We shall try to cover most of Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 6 of the textbook and Parts of Chapters 4 and 5. We shall move at a relatively brisk pace, so try not to fall behind; it may be hard to catch up.

Grading

Grading for the course will be based on quizzes and three exams.