Math 307: what we've covered so far
- Monday, 30 September: Chapter 1, Section 2.2,
introduction and
separable equations.
- Wednesday, 2 October: Section 2.1, first order
linear equations.
- Friday, 4 October: Section 2.3, modeling
with first order equations.
- Monday, 7 October: more on modeling, and a few words about
Section 2.4.
- Wednesday, 9 October: a few more word problems, and started
Section 2.5, autonomous equations and population
dynamics.
- Friday, 11 October: Section 2.5, continued.
- Monday, 14 October: Finished Section 2.5; started Section
2.7, numerical methods.
- Wednesday, 16 October: Continued Section 2.7. Started
discussing complex numbers and Euler's formula.
- Friday, 18 October: Continued discussing complex numbers.
- Monday, 21 October: first exam.
- Wednesday, 23 October: Sections 3.1-3.3: second
order linear homogeneous equations and started
discussing constant coefficients.
- Friday, 25 October: Continued with 3.1-3.3, and started
Section 3.4: complex roots of the characteristic
equation
- Monday, 28 October: more on Section 3.4 Also did Section
3.5, repeated roots of the characteristic
equation
- Wednesday, 30 October: Section 3.6, nonhomogeneous
equations and the method of undetermined
coefficients.
- Friday, 1 November: continued with Section 3.6.
- Monday, 4 November: finished Section 3.6, Section 3.7,
variation of parameters.
- Wednesday, 6 November: Section 3.8, mechanical
vibrations
- Friday, 8 November: Continued Section 3.8.
- Monday, 11 November: no class.
- Wednesday, 13 November: Section 3.9,
forced vibrations.
- Friday, 15 November: Continue Section 3.9.
- Monday, 18 November: review Chapter 3; start Chapter 6,
Laplace transforms.
- Wednesday, 20 November: second exam.
- Friday, 22 November: continue Chapter 6, Laplace
transforms.
- Monday, 25 November: more on Section 6.2, using
Laplace transforms to solve initial value problems.
- Wednesday, 27 November: Section 6.3: step
functions.
- Monday, 2 December: Section 6.4: initial value problems
with discontinous forcing functions.
- Wednesday, 4 December: discussed homework from Sections 6.3
and 6.4.
- Friday, 6 December: start Section 6.5,
impulse functions.
- Monday, 9 December: more on Section 6.5, miscellany.
- Wednesday, 11 December: review.
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