Elementary Differential Equations I / Ordinary Differential Equations

UBC MATH 215/255, Section 102, September-December 2014

Problem sets and Exams
Lecture summary
Previous announcements
Most recent announcements:
11.28
- final exam: Mon Dec. 15th at 3:30 pm, Student Recreation Centre Room 200A. (Three rooms SRC A-B-C will be shared by 5 sections.)
- Math Club Exam Pack: old exams with solutions at $10, available in Math Club in Math Annex 1119, 1pm-5pm, until Friday Dec 5, except Wed Dec 3.
- Office hour during the exam weeks: 11am on Thu Dec 4, Thu Dec 11 and Fri Dec 12.

References:

Textbook: Notes on Diffy Qs: Differential Equations for Engineers, by Jiri Lebl, (online and free, there is a link to affordable paperback), and a new draft of Chapter 8 on nonlinear systems
supplementary text: Differential Equations and Their Applications, 4th Ed., by Martin Braun (accessible from inside UBC or via VPN). We will follow Braun's section 1.9 for the topic on exact equations.
supplementary text: A First Course in Differential Equations, 2nd Ed., by J. David Logan (accessible from inside UBC or via VPN)
optional: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, by W. E. Boyce and R. C. DiPrima, (a nice classical book, ANY version is fine)

Lecture Time & Location: Mon Wed Fri 9:00am, LSK 200.

Instructor: Dr. Tai-Peng Tsai, Math building room 109, phone 604-822-2591, ttsai at math.ubc.ca.
Office hours: Mon 4-5:15pm, Tue 11am-12:15pm, and by appointment (Tsai's schedule).

Other sections: 101 (Henriot), 103 (Shih), 104 (Dontsev), and 105 (Zhao)

Notes:

Resources:

University policy on Student Discipline.
Math department drop-in tutorial schedule, past exams, and list of outlines of undergraudate courses.
UBC offering and Calendar descriptions of math courses, Academic Year 2014/2015, campus map, and Wayfinding.
Math Club and its exam packages.
AMS Tutoring Services.

Calendar description:

MATH 215: First-order equations; linear equations; linear systems; Laplace transforms; numerical methods; trajectory analysis of plane nonlinear systems. Applications of these topics will be emphasized.
MATH 255: Review of linear systems; nonlinear equations and applications; phase plane analysis; Laplace transforms; numerical methods.
Prerequisite: One of MATH 101, MATH 103, MATH 105, MATH 121, SCIE 001 and one of MATH 152, MATH 221, MATH 223.
Corequisite: One of MATH 200, MATH 217, MATH 226, MATH 253, MATH 263.

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