Math 2250-3
Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
Fall term, 2004

Lecture notes

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Lectures are listed in reverse chronological order. Maple files (to be opened from Maple) end in the suffix .mws, whereas Adobe Portable Document Files end in .pdf.

Week 16
dec8.pdf                             Review sheet   (and some interesting optional Laplace examples which we didn't do.)
dec6.pdf                             10.2-10.3   More Laplace properties and examples

Week 15
dec3.pdf                             10.2-10.3   Laplace transform properties, and applications to IVPs.
dec1.pdf                             10.1-10.2   Introduction to Laplace transforms, with applications to linear differential equations.
nov29.pdf                           7.4   springs, the Ziggy challenge.

Week 14
nov24.pdf                           7.4   Spring systems
nov22.pdf                           7.3   Solving first order linear systems of DE's, tank and glucose-insulin examples
2250nov22.mws                 Maple worksheet

Week 13
nov17.pdf                           7.1-7.2   First order systems of differential equations
nov15.pdf                           6.1   Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and why we need them

Week 12
nov10.pdf                           review:   review sheet, practice exam, experiment sheet.
nov8.pdf                             5.6:   forced harmonic oscillations

Week 11
nov5.pdf                             5.5:   Forced harmonic oscillators
2250nov5.mws                   Solving DE's in Maple, and pictures for section 5.5; Maple worksheet
nov3.pdf                             5.5:   Finding yp's by guessing, (undetermined coefficients), and variation of parameters.
nov1.pdf                             5.4:   Mechanical vibrations

Week 10
oct29.pdf                             5.3-5.4:   complex roots; unforced oscillating springs.
oct27.pdf                             5.2-5.3:   constant coefficient linear homogeneous DE's
oct25.pdf                             5.2:   solution spaces for homogeneous linear differential equations

Week 9
oct22.pdf                             5.1:   second order linear DE's
oct20.pdf                             4.7:   general vector spaces
oct18.pdf                             4.5:   row and column spaces

Week 8
oct15.pdf                             4.4:   bases and dimension
oct13.pdf                             4.2:   subspaces
oct11.pdf                             4.1-4.3:   vector spaces, linear independence, span.

Week 7
oct6.pdf                              4.1-4.3:   introduction to vector space concepts

Week 6
oct1.pdf                              3.6: magic of determinants continued
sept29.pdf                           3.6: magic of determinants
sept27.pdf                           3.5: matrix inverses.

Week 5
sept24.pdf                           3.4: matrix algebra.
sept22.pdf                           3.3: reduced row echelon form, and what you can deduce from it, includes Maple pdf.
2250sept22.mws                  Maple worksheet
sept20.pdf                           3.2-3.3: Gaussian elimation, row echelon and reduced row echelon form

Week 4
sept17.pdf                           3.1-3.2: linear systems, equation and row operations
sept15.pdf                           2.4-2.6: numerical methods for first order DE's
2250sept15.mws                 maple worksheet version....steal commands from here, while in Maple!!
sept13.pdf                           2.1-2.3: examples of autonomous DE's: logistic with harvesting, linear drag velocity model.
2250sept13.mws                 Maple worksheet calculations

Week 3
sept10.pdf                           2.1-2.2: Population models, autonomous DE's, equilibria, stability
sept8.pdf                             2.1: Population models

Week 2
sept3.pdf                             1.5: first order linear differential equations
sept1.pdf                             1.4: two applications of separable DE's: Toricelli and Newton cooling
2250sept1.pdf                     1.4: solving separable DE's, the algorithm and why it works.
2250sept1.mws                   Maple version
aug30.pdf                            1.3: slope fields, existence and uniqueness for 1st order IVP.

Week 1
2250aug27.pdf                   1.1-1.3: First order DE's, IVPs, solving by antidifferentiation, slope fields.
2250aug27.mws                 Maple worksheet version
aug25.pdf                           1.1: Introduction to differential equations