MATH 242 Fall 2018. Section 001
Meeting Times
| Section | Schedule | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | MWF | 09:40 AM - 10:30 AM | LeConte 112 |
Instructor information
Textbook
Important deadlines you need to know
| General Dates | |
|---|---|
| Classes begin | Aug 23, 2018 |
| Labor Day Holiday | Sep 3, 2018 |
| Fall Break | Oct 18—19, 2018 |
| General Election Day | Nov 6, 2018 |
| Thanksgiving Recess | Nov 21—25, 2018 |
| Last Day of Classes | Dec 7, 2018 |
| Academic Deadlines | |
| Last Day to Change/Drop without W | Aug 29, 2018 |
| First Day W Grade Assigned | Aug 30, 2018 |
| Last Day to Drop/Withdraw without WF | Oct 15, 2018 |
| First Day WF Grade Assigned | Oct 16, 2018 |
Prerequisites
A grade of C or better in MATH 142
Course Structure and Grading Policies
Your final grade will be computed as follows:
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In-class tests:
There will be four in-class tests scheduled as follows:Test # Date 1 Mon Oct 01 2 Wed Oct 17 3 Fri Nov 02 4 Mon Nov 19 -
Final Exam:
If you have taken at least three of the in-class exams, and are unhappy with your potential final score (as computed with the formula above), notify me by email on Monday, November 26, before 6:00 PM. You will have an opportunity to change your course grade by taking a (comprehensive) final exam. The score of the final will substitute your previous grade.
The final exam is scheduled on Friday, December 14, at 9:00 AM.
- Participation in an authorized University activity (such as musical performances, academic competitions, or varsity athletic events in which the student plays a formal role in a University sanctioned event)
- Required participation in military duties
- Mandatory admission interviews for professional or graduate school which cannot be rescheduled
- Participation in legal proceedings or administrative duties that require a student’s presence
- Death or major illness in a student’s immediate family
- Illness of a dependent family member
- Religious holy day if listed on www.interfaithcalendar.org
- Illness that is too severe or contagious for the student to attend class
- Weather-related emergencies
The course grade will be determined as follows:
| GRADE | RANGE |
|---|---|
| A | 90%-100% |
| B+ | 86%-89% |
| B | 80%-85% |
| C+ | 76%-79% |
| C | 70%-75% |
| D+ | 66%-69% |
| D | 60%-65% |
| F | below 60% |
Further Information
- Honor Code: The Honor Code applies to all work for this course. Please review the Honor Code at [this link]. Students found violating the Honor Code will be subject to discipline.
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- Remember to change your e-mail address on Blackboard if necessary [blackboard.sc.edu]
- Student Disability Resource Center: If you have special needs as addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act and need any assistance, please notify the instructor immediately.
- Student Success Center:
In partnership with University of South Carolina faculty, the Student Success Center (SSC) offers a number of programs to assist you in better understanding your course material and to aid you on your path to success. SSC programs are facilitated by trained undergraduate peer leaders who have previously excelled in their courses. Resources available to students in this course include:- Peer Tutoring: You can make a one-on-one appointment with a peer tutor by going to www.sc.edu/success. Drop-in Tutoring and Online Tutoring may also be available for this course. Visit the previous website for a full schedule of times, locations, and courses.
- Success Connect: I may communicate with the SSC regarding your progress in the course. If contacted by the SSC, please schedule an appointment to discuss campus resources that are available to you. Success Connect referrals are not punitive and any information shared by me is confidential and subject to FERPA regulations.
Learning Outcomes
Many of the principles or laws underlying the behavior of the natural World are statements or relations involving rates at which things happen. When expressed in mathematical terms, the relations are equations and the rates are derivatives. Equations containing derivatives are called differential equations. Therefore, to understand and to investigate different problems it is necessary to be able to solve or study differential equations.
Some examples of situations where this happens involve the motion of particles, the flow of current in electric circuits, the dissipation of heat in solid objects, the propagation and detection of seismic waves, or the change of populations.
We will focus mainly in the resolution of some particular kind of differential equations. In the case where we are not able to solve them, we will learn numerical approaches to obtain approximations to the solutions.
Summarizing: A student who successfully completes Elemental Differential Equations (MATH 242) will be able to master concepts and gain skills needed to accomplish the following:
- Solve initial value problems and find general or particular solutions to ordinary differential equations of the following types:
- Separable
- Exact
- Nonlinear homogeneous
- First- and higher-order linear equations, both homogeneous and inhomogeneous, especially those with constant coefficients
- Develop skill at using solution methods such as
- integrating factors
- substitution
- variation of parameters
- undetermined coefficients
- Laplace transform
- approximations
- Use differential equations to solve problems related to
- population models
- exponential growth
- logistic growth
- harvesting
- Torricelli's Law
- acceleration/velocity
- mixture
- cooling
- mechanical vibrations
- electrical circuits.
- population models
Lesson Plan
Introduction to Differential Equations
Classical Methods
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Fri Aug 24
General Introduction to Differential Equations
[p.8 #1--26]
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Mon Aug 27 [Review: Integration]
Integrals as general and particular solutions
[p.15 #1--10]
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Wed Aug 29
—Slope fields and numerical approximation
—Euler's method
[p.25 #1--10; p.113 #1,4,6,10]
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Fri Aug 31 [slides]
Separable equations
Singular Solutions
[p.40 #1--28]
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Wed Sep 05 [slides]
Homogeneous equations
[p.69 #2,3,7--10,12--14]
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Fri Sep 07 [slides]
Linear first-order differential equations
Bernoulli equation
[p.53 #1--21 and the equations below]
- \( xy' +y = y^2\ln x \)
- \( y'+y \dfrac{x+\tfrac{1}{2}}{x^2+x+1} = \dfrac{(1-x^2)y^2}{(x^2+x+1)^{3/2}} \)
- \( (1+x^2) y' =xy+x^2y^2 \)
- \( x^2y'+2x^3y=y^2(1+2x^2) \)
- \( 3y'+y \dfrac{x^2+a^2}{x(x^2-a^2)} = \dfrac{1}{y^2} \dfrac{x(3x^2-a^2)}{x^2-a^2} \)
- \( y' + \dfrac{y}{x+1} = -\frac{1}{2} (x+1)^3 y^2 \)
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Mon Sep 10 [slides]
(Today's lesson is offered online through [webconnect]. Please log in as a guest)
General substitution methods
[p.69 #1,4--6,15--18]
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Wed Sep 12 [slides]
(Today's lesson is offered online through [webconnect]. Please log in as a guest)
Exact equations
[p.69 #31--42]
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Fri Sep 14 [slides]
Reducible Second-order Differential Equations
[p.69 #43--54]
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Mon Sep 17 [slides]
Intro to second-order linear differential equations
[p.147 #1--16]
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Wed Sep 19 [slides]
Homogeneous linear second-order differential equations with constant coefficients
[p.170 #33--42]
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Fri Sep 21 [slides]
Particular solutions for Second-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients
—The method of variation of parameters.
[p.195 #1--20, 47--56] Use exclusively the method of variation of parameters
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Mon Sep 24 [slides]
Particular solutions for Second-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients
—The method of undetermined coefficients (Part I: the easy examples)
[No HW today]
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Wed Sep 26 [slides] [Recording of the review session] [Transcript (pdf)]
Particular solutions for Second-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients
—The method of undetermined coefficients (Part II: the hard examples).
[At this point, you should be able to do problems #1--56 in p.210 using either method]
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Fri Sep 28
General solutions to Second-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients
Review
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Mon Oct 01
Classes Canceled
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Wed Oct 03
First Test. Classical Methods
Methods based on the Laplace Transform
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Improper integrals revisited
[p.445 #1--6]
Find the Laplace transform of \( f(x) = \cos \beta x \), and \( f(x) = 1/\sqrt{x} \) using the definition. -
Mon Oct 08 [slides]
—Linearization of Transforms
—Translation on the s-axis
[p.446 #13,16--21,23,26--32,35; p457 #28--31; p.464 #1--22]
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Wed Oct 10 [slides]
—Differentiation of Transforms
Use the table of transforms to find the Inverse Laplace Transform of the following functions:
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{3}{s^4}, (s>0) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{5}{s+5}, (s>-5) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{3}{s-4}, (s>4) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{3s+1}{s^2+4}, (s>0) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{5-3s}{s^2+9}, (s>0) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{9+s}{4-s^2}, (s>2) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{1}{s(s-3)}, (s>3) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{3}{s(s+5)}, (s>0) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{1}{s(s^2+4)}, (s>0) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{2s+1}{s(s^2+9)} , (s>0) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{1}{s(s^2-9)}, (s>3) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{1}{s(s+1)(s+2)}, (s>0) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{2(s-4)+3}{(s-4)^2+25}), (s>4) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{5s-6}{s^2-3s}, (s>3) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{5s-4}{s^3-s^2-2s}, (s>2) \)
- \( F(s) = \dfrac{1}{s^4-16}, (s>2) \)
- \( f(x) = x^4 e^{\pi x} \)
- \( f(x) = e^{-2x} \sin (3\pi x) \)
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Fri Oct 12 [slides]
—Laplace transform of derivatives
—Transformation of Initial Value Problems
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Mon Oct 15
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Wed Oct 17
Second Test. Methods based on Laplace Transform
Applications to Mathematical Modeling
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Mon Oct 22
Geometric Applications
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Wed Oct 24
More Geometric Applications
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Fri Oct 26
Population models
—Introduction to population models
[p.82 #9--12, 21--24]
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Mon Oct 29
Population models
—Equilibrium solutions and stability
[p.91 #1--18 For all these problems, solve the equation explicitly (finding the equilibria), compute a few particular solutions around the equilibria using Maple/Mathematica, and state the stability from this information]
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Wed Oct 31
Review
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Fri Nov 02
Third Test. Geometric Applications and Population Models
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Mon Nov 05
Acceleration-velocity models (Part I)
[p.15 #24--29,33,37]
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Wed Nov 07
Acceleration-velocity models (Part II)
[p.100 #7--10,17--20]
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Fri Nov 09
Mechanical vibrations
—Free undamped motion
[p.181 #1--4 and if you are brave, try 10,11]
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Mon Nov 12
Mechanical vibrations
—Free damped motion
[p.181 #13--23]
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Wed Nov 14
Mechanical vibrations
—Undamped forced oscillations
[p.206 #1--6]
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Fri Nov 16
Mechanical vibrations
—Damped forced oscillations
Electrical circuits
[at this point, you should be able to solve all problems in page 206. p.231 #1--10]
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Mon Nov 19
Fourth Test. Acceleration/Velocity and Mechanical Vibrations
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Mon Nov 26
Applications of Torricelli's Law
[p.44 #54--65]
Reviews
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Wed Nov 28 [Review (1|5)]
Integration skills
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Fri Nov 30 [Review (2|5)]
Classical Methods
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Mon Dec 03 [Review (3|5)]
Methods based on Laplace Transform
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Wed Dec 05 [Review (4|5)]
Geometric Applications, Population Models
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Fri Dec 07 [Review (5|5)]
Acceleration/Velocity, Mechanical Vibrations, Torricelli