Fall 1997
The following is a tentative syllabus for the course. This page will be updated irregularly. On the other hand, the weekly syllabus and assignment sheet will always be accurate.
(last modified 29 October 1997)
| Lectures | Sections in Text | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|
| 9/24 | 17.1 | General Notions of ODEs, Slope Fields |
| 9/26 | 17.2, 17.4 | Separable Equations and Applications (mixing, growth, cooling) |
| 9/29 | 8.1 | Integration by Parts |
| 10/1 | 8.2 | Trigonometric Integrals |
| 10/3 | 8.3 | Trigonometric Substitutions |
| 10/6 | 8.4 | Partial Fractions |
| 10/8 | 17.3 | General First Order Linear DE (motion in viscous medium) |
| 10/10 | 17.5, 17.7 | Vibrating Spring and 2nd order constant coeff DE (real roots) |
| 10/13 | 17.5 + extra | Intro to complex numbers; 2nd order const coeff DE (complex roots) |
| 10/15 | 6.1, 6.2 | Area between curves, volumes of revolution |
| 10/17 | 6.2, 6.3 | Volumes of Revolution |
| 10/20 | 8.6 | Improper Integrals |
| 10/22 | 8.6 | Improper Integrals plus Gamma function |
| 10/22 |   | First Hour Exam |
| 10/24 | 5.5 | Midpoint, Trapezoid, Simpson (Lagrange Interpolation) No error formulas |
| 10/27 | 5.5, 10.1 | Error formulas for numerical integration, Approximation of functions |
| 10/29 | 10.1 | Approximation of Functions (no remainders or errors) |
| 10/31 | 10.2 | Sequences |
| 11/3 | 10.3 | Series of constants |
| 11/5 | 10.4 | Integral and Comparison tests |
| 11/7 | 10.5 | Ratio and Root Tests |
| 11/10 | 10.6 | Absolute and Conditional Convergence |
| 11/12 | 10.7 | Power Series (radius and interval of convergence) |
| 11/12 |   | Second Hour Exam |
| 11/14 | 10.8 | Integration and Differentiation of power series |
| 11/17 | 10.1, 10.9 | Remainder Terms, Errors, and Taylor Series |
| 11/19 | 11.1, 11.3 | Vectors in R^2 and R^3 |
| 11/21 | 11.2, 11.3 | Dot product, projections, components |
| 11/24 | 11.4 | Cross Products |
| 11/26 | 11.5 | Lines in R^3 |
| 11/28 |   | No class - Thanksgiving Break |
| 12/1 | 11.6 | Equations of Planes |
| 12/3 |   | Loose ends, review |