Ordinary Differential Equations MAP 2302-01 Fall 2006

Meeting times MWF 12:20-1:10 in room 106 LOV (the 1:15-1:20 107 MCH is a fake time)
Office Hours M 1:30-2:30, W 11:00-12:00 or by appointment (My office is 223 LOV)
The final for this class is Friday 15 Dec, 7:30 am -9:30 am

Current Schedule with Assignments

This textbook is same book we have used at FSU for over 30 years (well, we used an earlier edition back then). The textbook is designed to be flexible, many different classes on ODEs can be taught out of this textbook at several levels of difficulty. It is not the best book for self pacing.

The Class Syllabus(aka Handout) in PDF(Acroread Format). Acroread is freely available from Adobe.

Your private gradebook This has a username password which will be given in class. [You will also have to add your-code.html to the url above.]

The free garnet account can be obtained from this link. You can have your garnet mail forwarded to your favorite ISP via this link, or you can read your garnet mail directly from the web from this link or you can read your garnet mail by several other methods.

MAP 2302 ODE's or Diff-E-Qs is a fundamental course useful to mathematicians, scientists, engineers, and even social scientists.

Course Description From the Bulletin:

MAP 2302. Ordinary Differential Equations (3). Prerequisite: MAC 2312. Not open to students having credit in MAP 3305. Differential equations of the first order, linear equations of the second, systems of first order equations, power series solutions, Laplace transforms, numerical methods.

References

Table of Laplace Transforms given with the tests. Some addition problems on Laplace Transforms and on Series
The web page for my last ODE class in Summer 2005
A TI-89 Calculator is highly recommended (see below for sale hints).
The directory with ti89 hints.
Scilab will be used in this course, it is free and availible from Scilab Home Page we have some Hints and the local scilab directory. (Here is the directory from linear algebra 2)
A five star $16 800 page Dover paperback on ODEs and a $13 Schaums outline with tons of worked examples (click on image for amazon.com links)
Math Help Center Hours
FSU Math Tutor List
TI-89 (TI-89 is a trademark of Texas Instruments)
1. The on-line PDF version of the TI-89 manual can be downloaded from TI, this link. The first three chapters are a good introduction to the TI-89. Parts of the graphics chapters 11 (DE graphing) and 9 (Seq graphing) will be covered during the course of ODEs.
2. The local directory of TI-89 howtos for ODE's here is another one for Calculus3.
3. ti-89.org web page of faq
4. ticalc.org web page for help It has a laplace transform program for the ti89.
5. The main Texas Instruments web page
Maple (Maple is a trademark of Waterloo Maple) dir with example files
Matlab (Matlab is a trademark of MathWorks) dir with example files
Octave (like Scilab) is another free matlab clone Octave home
Gnuplot is a freely available 3D graphing tool
1. The Gnuplot homepage
2. The dir with example files
Others
1. ODE Architect is included with the textbook as a CD-rom on the inside front cover. It only runs on windows. Here is some on-line information ODEArch.pdf
2. ODE toolkit is the latest in this cycle. It does run on linux and the mac.
3. Other java base programs are dfield and pplane (also there are MatLab versions) web page

Hints on finding a TI-89 Calculator, note that a new version, TI-89 titanium, is the current model as of summer 2004. Pawn shops and Ebay have been the most inexpensive locations to obtain a TI-89 (Under $100). Here are two locations on the web where the price of a TI-89 is about $131 (Note shipping costs negate some of the cost advantage, and also the range in shipping costs.) Local stores seem to price this calculator at about $150 and up.

Here is a web based textbook price comparer service www.CampusBooks4Less.com

Last Modified: 2006-08-26