20D Course Information, Winter Quarter, 2009.
Lecture: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 1:00-1:50pm in
Center Hall 119. The class runs from 5 January to 13 March; the last
day to drop without a W is 30 January. Instructor:
Amanda Beeson - Email: ambeeson@math.ucsd.edu
- Office hours: M2-3, W2-4 in AP&M 5202.
Textbook: We will
use the eighth edition of the book Elementary Differential Equations
by Boyce and DiPrima
MATLAB. The MATLAB assignments can be found online here. The labs will be held in the CLICS laboratory in Galbraith Hall. Directions to CLICS can be found here. Each MATLAB write-up will be due at 5pm in the homework boxes on Friday the week the lab took place.
Teaching
Assistants: The teaching assistants are:
- 10-12pm Miles Jones: mej005@math.ucsd.edu, office hours 12-2Th in AP&M 6414
- 12-2pm Joel Dodge: jrdodge@math.ucsd.edu, office hours 10-11MW in AP&M 6351
- 2-4pm Jonathan Serencsa: jserencsa@math.ucsd.edu, office hours 12-1MW in AP&M 5720
Homework assignments will be posted here.
Reading the sections of the textbook covered in class is
considered part of the homework assignment. As a word of advice,
reading in advance of the lecture can help clarify subject
matter. There will be two midterms in lecture,
tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, 28 January, and Friday, 27
February. Each will be worth 20% of your grade. The
final exam will be worth 30% of your grade; it will be held on
Friday, 20 March from 11:30 to 2:30 in Center 119. Overall your
grade will be calculated according to the following rubric:
| homework | 15% |
| matlabs | 15% |
| midterm
I | 20% |
| midterm
II | 20% |
| final | 30% |
Academic dishonesty is considered a serious offense at
UCSD. Students caught cheating will face an administrative sanction
that may include suspension or expulsion from the university