Math 118A. Differential equations (Fall 2010)
Day & time: M W F 11:00am to 11:50am
Midterm: November 3, 11:00-11:50 am
Final Exam: Friday, Dec. 10, 8-10 am
Teaching Assistant: James Hateley
Email:
jhateley@uci.edu
Office Location: RH 419
Office Hours: 10:00- 11:00 T Th
Required text: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, by S. Strogatz
Grading: Weekly homework 40%, midterm exam 20%, final exam 40%.
Homework and exams: Homework problems will be assigned every Thursday. These assignments will be turned in the following Thursday at the beginning of the discussion section. No late assignments will be accepted, but the lowest homework score will be dropped. There will be one midterm and one final exam. The exams are “closed book”- no books, notes, or phones.
Homework 2 (due Thursday, October 14): 5.2.1, 5.2.5 -- 5.2.8.
Homework 3 (due Thursday, October 21): 5.1.10, 5.1.11, 5.2.11, 6.2.1, 6.2.2.
Homework 4 (due Thursday, October 28): 6.3.1, 6.3.5, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.4.
Homework 5 (due Thursday, November 11): 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.3.1, 7.3.3, 7.3.4.
Homework 6 (due Thursday, November 18): 3.4.11, 8.1.1, 8.1.7, 10.1.10, 10.1.11.
Homework 7 (due Tuesday, November 30): 11.1.4, 11.2.5, 11.3.1, 11.3.2, 11.3.4.
Lectures on nonlinear dynamics
Exact Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations
S.O.S. Mathematics: Differential Equations
Online Notes on Differential Equations by Paul Dawkins
Video lectures of Professor Arthur Mattuck (MIT)