LECTURE TIME AND PLACE: MWF 10:30, Smith 405
INSTRUCTOR: John Palmieri
  Padelford C-538, 543-1785
  E-mail: palmieri@math.washington.edu
OFFICE HOURS: Monday and Wednesday, 1:30-2:30 and by appointment
WEB PAGE: http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/Math307/

TEXT BOOKS:

• Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems by W. E. Boyce and R. C. DiPrima, 7th edition
• Math 307 Notes (Complex Numbers and Infinite Series); available from Professional Copy `n' Print, 4200 University Way NE.

EXAMINATIONS AND GRADING: There will be two mid-term exams, weekly problem sets, and a final exam. The mid-term exams are worth 100 points each, the homework will count for 50 points, and the final is worth 150 points, for a total of 400 points.

MID-TERM EXAMS: The first will be on October 18; the second will be on either November 6 or November 8.

FINAL EXAM: 8:30-10:20 am, Friday, December 8.

HOMEWORK: Homework will be assigned regularly, and it will be due at 4:30 in my office (PDL C-538) each Wednesday afternoon. Feel free to work with other people on your homework, but you must write your solutions yourself.

PLAN FOR THE COURSE: We will start by discussing first order differential equations, linear ones in particular. We will move on to second order differential equations, focusing on linear equations, both homogeneous and nonhomogeneous. Some of this requires familiarity with the complex numbers, so we will discuss them briefly (they are covered in the first part of the notes). Then we will look at infinite series (this is where the second part of the notes comes in), and we will apply them to differential equations when we discuss power series solutions.

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