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• MTH-264-WN380 meets in Room 208 of the Delta Downtown Midland Center.
  • Thursdays, 6:00pm-8:55pm
• Office Hours
  • in person, Delta Downtown Saginaw Center, Room 308
    • Wednesday, 3:30pm-4:25pm
  • in person, Delta Downtown Midland Center, Room 208
    • Thursday, 5:00pm-5:55pm
  • online, enter Zoom office hours
    • Tuesday, 6:00pm-6:55pm -
    • Wednesday, 6:30pm-7:25pm -
    • Thursday, 4:00pm-4:55pm -
  • by appointment - in person or enter Zoom office hours by appointment
• Dropbox
  • Submit assignments to our MTH-264 Assignments folder.

Thank you!

• Our course is now completed
  • Exam 3 solutions are posted.
  • Graded exams and final grade reports are posted in your Google Drive folders.
  • Google Drive folders and their contents will be permanently deleted after 11:59pm on Tuesday, May 7. You can download your papers and grade reports before your folder is permanently deleted.
  • If you need me to resend you a link to your Google Drive folder, please send me an email.

Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations

• Week 1 (January 7-13)
  • 1.1 Modeling
  • 1.2 Separation of Variables
• Week 2 (January 14-20)
  • 1.3 Slope Fields
  • 1.4 Euler's Method
  • 1.5 Existence and Uniqueness
• Week 3 (January 21-27)
  • 1.6 Equilibria and the Phase Line
  • 1.7 Bifurcations
• Week 4 (January 28-February 3)
  • 1.8 Linear Equations
  • 1.9 Integrating Factors for Linear Equations
  • 2.1 Modeling via Systems
• Week 5 (February 4-10)
  • 2.2 The Geometry of Systems
  • 2.3 The Damped Harmonic Oscillator
  • 2.4 Additional Analytic Methods for Special Systems
  • 2.5 Euler's Method for Systems
• Week 6 (February 11-17)
  • (weather cancellation)
• Week 7 (February 18-24)
  • 3.1 Properties of Linear Systems and the Linearity Principle
  • 3.2 Straight-line Solutions
  • 3.3 Phase Portraits for Linear Systems with Real Eigenvalues
  • 3.4 Complex Eigenvalues
• Week 8 (February 25-March 2)
  • 3.5 Special Cases: Repeated and Zero Eigenvalues
  • 3.7 The Trace-Determinant Plane
• Week 9 (March 3-9)
  • (Spring Break)
• Week 10 (March 10-16)
  • 5.1 Equilibrium Point Analysis
  • 5.2 Qualitative Analysis
• Week 11 (March 17-23)
  • 3.6 Second-Order Linear Equations
  • 4.1 Forced Harmonic Oscillators
  • 4.2 Sinusoidal Forcing
• Week 12 (March 24-30)
  • 4.3 Undamped Forcing and Resonance
  • 4.4 Amplitude and Phase of the Steady State
• Week 13 (March 31-April 6)
  • Appendix B Power Series: The Ultimate Guess
  • 6.1 Laplace Transforms
  • 6.2 Discontinuous Functions
• Week 14 (April 7-13)
  • 6.3 Second-Order Equations
  • 6.4 Delta Functions and Impulse Forcing
• Week 15 (April 14-20)
  • 6.5 Convolutions
  • Review
• Week 16 (April 21-27)
  • Review
  • Exam 3