MA 532-001 Fall 2003
Ordinary Differential Equations I
Mathematics
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Information
Meeting time: MWF 12:25 - 13:15
Meeting place: HA 366
Instructor: Stephen Schecter
E-mail address: schecter@math.ncsu.edu
Office location: HA 349
Office hours: TBA
Office telephone number: 515-6533
Office fax number: 515-3798
Final exam: Wednesday, December 10, 1 - 4 p.m.
Goals of the Course
The student will learn the basics of the modern approach to ordinary differential equations, including existence and uniqueness theorems, stability, invariant manifolds, periodic solutions, limit sets, and linear systems. Some theory will be deferred to MA 732. The student will also learn to use Phaser, an interactive differential equations simulator.
Prerequisites
MA 341, MA 405, and MA 425 or 511.
Corequisite: MA 426 or 512.
Text
Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications by Carmen Chicone, Springer, 1999.
MA 532 will cover Chapter 1 through Section 1.8, Chapter 2, and selected applications from Chapter 3. The text will also be used in MA 732.
The text has some mistakes. For an errata sheet, click here and look at the bottom of the page. If you find more mistakes in the text, please let me know.
Homework
Homework will be assigned regularly. Some problems will be turned in and graded.
I encourage you to work on homework assignments with one or more of your classmates. However, you must write up your answers yourself.
Grading
- Homework: 1/3
- Two one-hour tests: 1/6 each
- Final: 1/3
Students with Disabilities
The NC State policy on working with students with disabilities can be found here.
Last modified Fri Nov 25 2003
Send questions or comments to schecter@math.ncsu.edu