Math 130B. Ordinary Differential Equations
- Spring 2003 - Hans Lindblad

  Meeting Times   Texts   Syllabus   Homeworks   Exams   Practice Exams

Meeting Times

Texts

Alternative books on reserve in the library:
Perko "Differential equations and dynamical systems", Springer Verlag
Arrowsmith and Place "Dynamical Systems" CRCpress-Chapman and Hall 1992.
Arnold "Ordinary Differential Equations", Springer Verlag 1992
Strogatz "Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos", Perseus Publishing 2001, Addison Wesley 1994
Boyce and DiPrima "Elementary differential equations" John Wiley

Exams

No calculators or notes will be allowed on the exams.

Practice Exams and Solutions to some of the exams

mids03p.pdf

mids03ps.pdf

Preliminary Syllabus

The first part and the midterm covers chapters 8, 11-16 of Hirsch and Smale.
The second part is Strogatz Chapter 9-12 about chaos.
Please read text before lecture as it will help you understand the lecture better.

 wk  date  Monday  Wednesday  Friday
  1  3/31  8.1-8.3  8.3  8.4-8.6
  2  4/7  App. IV  11.1-11.2  11.3-11.5
  3  4/14  12.1  12.2  12.3
  4  4/21  13.1-13.2  13.3  14.1-14.2
  5  4/28  15.1  15.2  16.1
  6  5/5  16.1  16.3  section
  7  5/12  Exam     
  8  5/19      
  9  5/26  Holiday    
 10  6/2      

Homework Assignments(tentative)

HW #1 Due 4/7
      8: #1a, 2, 3, 4abd, 5a, 8

HW #2 Due 4/14
      11.1: # 1,2abc, Hints for problem 2a    11.3: #1,    11.4: 1a,    11.5: #1a, 2a,    Problems for Inverse Function Theorem.

HW #3 Due 4/21
      12.1: # 1, 2    12.2:    12.3: #1, 2, 4

HW #4 Due 4/28
      13.1: #1,    13.3: #1,3,5,6,7

HW #5 Due 5/5
      14.2: #3, 4,    15.2: #1, 2    16.1: #2

HW #6 Due 5/19
      16.1: #1,2    16.3: #1,4,6    Practice midterm

HW #7 Due 5/28 Note special day
      9.2: #1,2,5    9.3: #1,10,    9.4: #2,    9.5: #5, 9.6# 1,2, 5

HW #8 Due 6/6 Note special day
      10.1: #11,12,14    10.2:2   10.3: #2   10.4: #10   10.5#3   ;

Grades

The grade will be calculated as follows: 50% homeworks and 50% midterm.