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MTH-264 Week 2 (January 12-18)
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outline
Outline
1.3 Qualitative Technique: Slope Fields
- recommended:
1,
3,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
12, 13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
22
- the flow of the equation
- the geometry of a first-order equation
- integral and autonomous equations and their slope fields
1.4 Numerical Technique: Euler's Method
- recommended:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5, 6, 7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
14,
15,
16,
18,
20
- plotting and correcting a course
- how to excel at euler's method
- ordinary machines make extraordinary errors
1.5 Existence and Uniqueness
- recommended:
3, 7,
9,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
18
- how do we know if an initial value problem even has a solution?
- worse, how do we know that it doesn't have more than one?
- conditions that guarantee useful results
- "if two solutions are ever in the same place at the same time, then they
are the same solution"
- related to exercise 18:
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assessments
Assessments
- Deadlines and File Submission
- Submit your assessment as a single PDF file to the Assessment Folder
inside your assigned Google Drive folder by 11:59pm on the date indicated.
- No late assessments are accepted. If you have a conflict with a deadline,
contact me before the deadline.
- Solutions are posted under these links after the deadline.
- Homework
- due Wednesday, January 15:
1.1 - 20,
1.2 - 29 alt,
38 alt,
40
- due Wednesday, January 22:
1.2 - 39 alt,
1.3 - 22 alt,
1.4 - 22 alt,
1.5 - 18
- due Wednesday, January 29:
1.6 - 18 alt,
20 alt,
1.7 - 1 alt,
8 alt,
22
- Exams
- Wednesday, February 19: Exam 1
- Exam 1
(preview)
(solutions)
- Exam 1 covers sections 1.1-1.9, 2.1-2.3
- A preview will be released by 10:59pm on Wednesday, February 12
and Exam 1 will be written in class from 7:00pm-9:00pm on
Wednesday, February 19.
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handouts
Handouts
- Announcements
- Textbook Excerpts
- Technology Tips
- Separable Equations
- Modeling
- Euler's Method
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videos
Videos
- First Principles
- Mixing Problems
- Euler's Method
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technology
Technology
- Communication
- GeoGebra
- Desmos
- Excel
- Mathematica