Math 211 Homework and Schedule

 

The following abbreviations will be used:
Book Ordinary Differential Equations by Polking, Boggess & Arnold
Manual Ordinary Differential Equations using MATLAB by Arnold & Polking

 

 

Week

Topics

Read

Homework

08/23-08/27

Introduction to ODE

Solutions of ODE

Plotting in MATLAB

Book: Ch. 1, Sect 2.1

Manual: Ch. 1, 2, Ch.3 (p. 28-32)

Book (Sect. 2.1):  3, 11, 13, 18, 24

Manual (Ch. 2): 15, 25

Due Tuesday, 08/31

Solutions

08/30-09/03

Solutions to Separable Equations

Models of Motion

Book: Sections 2.2, 2.3

Manual: Chapter 3

Book (Sect. 2.2): 5, 15, 27, 35

          (Sect. 2.3): 4, 9, 11

Manual (Ch. 3): 2, 6

Due Tuesday, 09/07

Solutions

09/06-09/10

Linear Equations

Mixing Problems

Existence and Uniqueness

Book: Sections 2.4, 2.5, 2.7

Manual: Chapter 3

Book (Sect. 2.4): 4, 5, 16, 21

          (Sect. 2.5): 1, 6, 12

          (Sect. 2.7): 7, 9, 14

Due Tuesday, 09/14

Solutions

09/13-09/17

Autonomous Equations

Modeling Population Growth

Personal Finance

Book: Sections 2.9, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Manual: Chapter 3

Book (Sect. 2.9): 2, 9, 19, 25

          (Sect. 3.1): 2, 12, 15

          (Sect. 3.3): 4, 9, 15

Due Tuesday, 09/21

Solutions

09/20-09/24

Second order equations

Linear, homogeneous equations

  with constant coefficients

Book: Sections 4.1, 4.3

Book (Sect. 4.1): 3, 11, 13

          (Sect. 4.3): 4, 9, 13, 22, 28

Due Tuesday, 09/28

Solutions

09/27-10/05

Inhomogeneous equations (method of

    undetermined coefficients)

Harmonic motion

Book: Sections 4.5, 4.4, 4.7

Book (Sect. 4.5): 1, 17, 21, 25, 37

          (Sect. 4.4): 9, 11, 16 (use Matlab for plotting)

          (Sect. 4.7): 9, 19

Due Thursday, 10/07

Solutions

10/07-10/14

Numerical Methods

Sample M-files (euler.m, comp.m)

Book: Sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

Manual: Chapter 5

Book (Sect. 6.1): 5, 7

          (Sect. 6.2): 5, 7

          (Sect. 6.3): 9

Manual (Ch. 5): 5, 8

Due Tuesday, 10/19

10/18-10/21

Vectors and Matrices

The Geometry of Linear Equations

Solving Linear Systems

Book: Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

Manual: Chapter 11

Book (Sect. 7.1): 11, 35, 46, 53

          (Sect. 7.2): 3, 7

          (Sect. 7.3): 5, 13, 23, 24

Due Tuesday, 10/26

Solutions

10/25-10/28

Properties of Solution Sets

Subspaces

Book: Sections 7.4, 7.5

Manual: Chapter 11

Book (Sect. 7.4): 11, 12, 21, 23, 31

          (Sect. 7.5): 5, 14, 22, 31, 39

Manual (Ch. 11): 7, 8, 13, 21, 22        

Due Tuesday, 11/2

Solutions

11/01-11/04

Determinants

Introduction to Systems

Geometric Interpretation of Solutions

Qualitative Analysis

Book: Sections 7.6, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

Manual: Chapter 7

Book (Sect. 7.6): 9, 20, 27, 37, 50

          (Sect. 8.1): 3, 11

          (Sect. 8.2): 5, 23, 26 (use pplane6.m for #23 and #26)

          (Sect. 8.3): 3, 6, 7

 Due Tuesday, 11/9

Solutions

11/08-11/11

Linear Systems

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors

Planar (2x2) systems

Book: Sections 8.4, 9.1, 9.2

Book (Sect. 8.4): 13, 31, 37

          (Sect. 9.2): 5, 11, 27, 33, 39, 45

Due Thursday, 11/18

Solutions

11/15-11/18

Phase plane portraits

Higher dimensional systems

Book: Sections  9.3, 9.4

Manual: Chaper 12 (pages 181-193)

Book (Sect. 9.3): 12, 13, 15, 19, 23, 45

          (Sect. 9.4): 7, 13, 23, 34

Due Tuesday, 11/23

Solutions

11/23-12/03

The linearization of a nonlinear system

Invariant Sets and nullclines

Long-term behavior of solutions

The exponential matrix

Book: Sections  10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 9.5

Manual: Chapter 13

Book (Sect. 10.1): 3, 6, 11, 14

          (Sect. 10.2): 3, 7, 21

          (Sect. 10.3): 1, 3, 9, 13

Due Thursday, 12/02

Solutions