Engineering Math 2250

2250 meets 8:05am daily in WEB 1230
Updated: Tuesday, 06-Jan-2015 05:33:42 MST   Today: Thursday, 30-Oct-2025 06:42:45 MDT

First Exercise

Problem 1.2-2
  Find a function y=f(x) which satisfies the 
   differential equation dy/dx = (x-2)^2 
   and the initial condition y(2)=1.
 Book's Answer: y=1+(1/3)(x-2)^3
 Your Job
    Please write a one or two page solution.
    Submit a COPY on the next to last class of Week 1.
    It will be returned on Friday of Week 1, with comments, ungraded.
    The final draft of 1.2-2 will be collected with the
    Week 1 homework in a stapled package (due in Week 2).
 Sample Solved Problem
    The link below is handwritten work by Gustafson, Tyson Black and Jennifer Lahti. Try to do 
    as well as Jennifer (best exposition in this PDF), but write your own draft, using your own style. 
    Tyson's work for 1.2-1 shows the range of what is acceptable. 

    This is practise writing mathematics, with the mysteries removed. 

    If you agree that listening to the radio has nothing to do with reading and writing musical
    notes, then you are beginning to understand the difference between writing mathematics and
    being a mathematical consumer. Engineers are not just consumers of mathematical methods, they are authors 
    of new methods, which is a nontrivial creative effort requiring special writing skills. Knowing how to
    write mathematics enables you to read modern engineering publications, which always seem to have new 
    technological and mathematical content.