General Information

Lecture: M, W, F, 10:20-11:10 am, in N-101 North Kedzie.

Office Hours: Tu, Th 11:00-12:30 am in A-307 Wells Hall .
Extra Office Hours: By appointment.

Lecture Slides.   Lecture Notes.   Chapter 1-6, ready without exercises.

Common Final Exam: Tuesday, May 3rd, 10:00 am-12:00 pm. Places:

• Sections 001, 003, 007  in 1345 EB  (Engineering Building.);
• Sections 002, 004, 005, 008, 010, 012 in N-130 BCC (Business College Complex.);
• Sections 006, 009, 011, in 138 CEM (Chemistry.).
  

Common Make-up Final Exam: Wednesday, May 4th, 10:00am-12:00 noon.
Place: 138 CEM (Chemistry.).

Students who are elegible for the make-up exam (those students who have three or more exams
in one day, according to the official final exam schedule) must fill out a request to take the exam
no later than 12:00 pm on Friday April 30 in A212 Wells Hall. Students must provide a recent
copy of their schedule for documentation.

Recitations:  Tu, 9:10-10:00 am.
Sec. 001: C-214  Wells Hall --- TA: Chung Liu.
Sec. 002: C-104  Wells Hall --- TA: Jiayin Jin.

Recitations:  Tu, 10:20-11:10 am.
Sec. 003: C-311  Wells Hall --- TA:  Chung Liu.
Sec. 004: 2245   Engineering Building --- TA: Noa Kraitzman.
Sec. 005: 150  Natural Sciences Building --- TA: Jiayin Jin. 
Sec. 006: 208  Olds Hall --- TA: Xiao Feng.  

Recitations:  Tu, 11:30 am-12:20 pm.
Sec. 007: 202  Urban Planning & Landscape Architecture Building --- TA: Chung Liu.
Sec. 008: 1257  Anthony Hall --- TA: Noa Kraitzman.

TA Office Hours:
Chung Liu: M, 14:50am-15:50pm in A-114 WH.
Jiayin Jin: Tu 2:30-3:30 pm in A-102.
Noa Kraitzman: M, 11:30 am-12:30 pm in A-110 WH.
Xiao Feng: TBA.

Text Book: W. Boyce and R. DiPrima, Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 9th ed., Wiley (2009). ISBN: 978-0-470-38334-6.

Coverage: Sections 2.1-2.4, 2.6, 3.1-3.6, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1-6.6, 7.1-7.6, 7.8, 10.1-10.5.

Further reading

• Lecture Notes, Typed along the course.
  
• Richard Bronson, Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2009.
• H.S. Bear, Differential equations: A concise course, Dover, 1999, (unabridged and corrected republication of the original edition in 1962.)
  

Practice Exams:
Use these solutions wisely: First, do the problems by yourself, and only then check your solutions.

• Exam 1:
• Exam-1-1,  Exam-1-1 Solutions,  Exam-1-2,   Exam-1-2 Solutions.
• Exam-1-3,  Exam-1-4,  Exam-1-5.
• Exam 2:
• Exam-2-1,  Exam-2-1 Solutions.
• Exam-2-2,  Exam-2-3, Exam-2-4.
• Exam 3:
• Exam-3-1,  Exam-3-1 Solutions,  Exam-3-2,   Exam-3-2 Solutions.
• Exam-3-3  Exam-3-4  Exam-3-5.
• Final Exam:
• Final-Exam-1, Solutions Final-Exam-1 (2 hours exam).
• Final-Exam-2. (Shorter). 
  

News:

• Lecture Notes and Lecture Sildes are updated during the semester.
  

Links:

• MTH 235 course description
  
• Academic Calendar
• Mathematics Learning Center
• Direction field plotter by John Polking at Rice University
  

Important Dates:

• 01/10/2011: Class begins.
• 01/14/2011: Close of online enrollment at 8:00pm.
• 01/17/2011: Martin Luther King day. No class. University open.
• 01/17/2011 to 01/21/2011: Late add, drops to lower course, section changes: Go to A-212, Wells Hall.
• 01/21/2011: Last day to late add or change to an approved lower level course/prerequisite course.
• 02/03/2011: Last day to drop a curse with 100% refund. No refunds after this date.
  
• 03/02/2011: Last day to drop with no grade reported. Middle of Semester.
• 3/07/2011, 03/11/2011: Spring Break. No classes. University open.
  
• 04/29/2011: Last day of class.
• 05/03/2011: Final exam, 10:00am -12:00 noon.