Math 331, Fall 2017: Common information for all sections

Course chair information

Course chair: Luc Rey-Bellet
Office :   LGRT 1423 K
Phone :  545-6020
E-Mail :   luc@math.umass.edu


Instructors:

Class Number Section Instructor Location Meeting Time
 35741 331.1  Efstathios Charalampidis    MWF 11:15AM-12:05AM
 35742 331.2  Hongkun Zhang    TuTh 1:00PM-2:15 PM
 35743 331.3  Pedro Villanova

 

 MWF 12:20PM--1:10PM
 35805 331.4  Pedro Villanova    MWF 1:25PM-2:15PM
 35846 331.5  Hongkun Zhang    TuTh 11:30AM--12:45PM
35860 331.6  Tangxin Jin     TuTh 8:30am--9:45am
 35870 331.7  Luc Rey-Bellet    TuTh 10:00AM-11:15AM
 35881 331.8  Jonathan Maack    MWF 1:25PM-2:15PM
           


Teaching Assistants: Office hours for all sections of MATH 331 will be held in Hasbrouck 137 everyday day Monday to Thursday from 4pm to 6pm .

Instructor :  Ling-Chen Bu
E-Mail : bu@math.umass.edu
Office Hours : M 4pm--6pm, Th 5pm--6pm

Instructor:   Konstantinos Pantazis
E-Mail : pantazis@math.umass.edu
Office Hours : Tu 4pm--6pm, W 5:30pm--6:00 pm

Instructor:   Jie Wang
E-Mail : wang@math.umass.edu
Office Hours : W 4:00pm--5:30pm, Th 4:00pm--5:00pm


Syllabus: This course is an introduction to ordinary differential equations. The topics covered in this class are

Prerequisites are Math 131-132.


Text and online homework: We will use the textbook Elementary Differential Equations, 11th Edition (2017) by William E. Boyce, Richard C. DiPrima, Douglas B. Meade. An electronic copy of the textbook is integrated in the homework system Wiley-Plus that we will use for the class. When setting-up your account with Wiley plus there will be an option to purchase a hard copy of the book for a (small) extra-fee.



Grading and Exams There will be one midterm exam (worth 1/3 of your grade) common to all sections and a final exam (worth 1/3 of your grade) common to all sections. Homework are assigned weekly and done on-line on WileyPLUS


Weekly Schedule

The following is meant to give a general idea of which sections are covered in which weeks and may be adjusted as needed. All the sections will be covered.
As a general principle the material in a given week will be subject of the homework due the week after to leave you time to review the material.

Week Lecture Event
9/5 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 Introduction  
9/11 2.1 Linear ODEs
2.2 Separable ODEs
 

9/18

2.3 Modelling with ODEs
2.5 Autonomous equations
M 9/18 last day to drop without record
9/25 2.4, 2.7, and 2.8 Theory and Euler methods
2.6 Exact equations
 
10/2 3.1 2nd order equations with constant coefficients
3.2 Theory
 
10/9 3.3 Complex roots
3.4 Repeated roots
M 10/9 is a Holiday and Tu10/10 follows Monday schedule
10/16 3.5 Nonhomogeneous ODEs
3.7 Mechanical and Electrical oscillations
M 10/16 MIDTERM
Th 10/19 Last day to drop with "W" and select "P/F"
10/23

3.8 Forced oscillations
6.1 Laplace transform

 
10/30

6.2 Initial value problems
6.3 Step functions

 
11/6

6.4 Discontinuous forcing
6.5 Impulse functions

 
11/13

7.1 Introduction to systems

 
11/20

Thanksgiving recess
11/27

7.2--7.3 Matrices
7.4 Theory

 
12/4

7.5 Real eigenvalues
7.6 Complex eigenvalues

 
12/11

Review

Tu 12/12 is last day of classes
12/18

Final Exam

Final period 12/14 -- 12/20 (Snow day 12/21)
  Grades Final Grade is due by Tu 1/2