Class meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:20-4:40 PM at: ARC-333 (Busch Campus)
Text: Paul Blanchard, Robert L. Devaney & Glen Hall; Differential Equations (Third Edition), Brooks/Cole, 2006
(Please note that this is a new edition of the book. The main difference is in Chapter 1, where sections 1.8 and 1.9 are changed, but, in addition, several homework problems have been changed.)
Instructor: Eduardo Sontag, email: sontag@math (add .rutgers.edu if mailing from outside Rutgers)
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:10-3:10, 265 Hill Center - but you should let the instructor know in advance if you will be coming in (also, any other mutually convenient times, by appointment, and "24/7" communication by email)
Please add the following word: ALLOW252 (no spaces) to the subject line of any email sent to the instructor, to avoid spam-filtering
Important notices will be sent to you by email, to the address that the registrar provides for you (typically in the "eden" machine). You should set "forwarding" from that address if you wish to receive your emails in some other service (yahoo, gmail, etc).
Syllabus, Notes, and Homework Assignments (still working on these)
In this course, you will use computers for obtaining phase planes and numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations.
There is a package available in the CD ROM that comes with the book, but the instructor prefers if you use the following Java Applet, which should run on any Java-enabled browser: JOde
(If you prefer, you can use any other software which includes ODE solvers, such as Maple or Matlab (which are available on many campus computers. For Maple, very little is needed in order to do what is needed for this course. Read this, and cut and paste in to Maple to obtain results and modify the sample equations to see what happens: one-page of instructions on solving/graphing differential equations using Maple.)
Now for the part that you really do not care about, but anyway ;-)
Roughly, quizzes and projects will count for 20% of the grade, each of two term exams 20%, and the final exam 40%. However, these percentages may be adjusted, especially if there end up being a substantial number of projects.
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Class attendance is expected. There will be no make-ups for quizzes or exams. |
(To allow for quizzes missed because of personal problems and such, the two lowest quiz scores will be dropped.)
Final Exam: Friday, 5 May 2006, 12-3PM, usual classroom