MATH 242 Spring 2018
Sections 005 and 010
| Section | Schedule | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 005 | TTh | 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM | LeConte 405 |
| 010 | TTh | 2:50 PM - 4:05 PM | LeConte 112 |
Important deadlines you need to know
| General Dates | |
|---|---|
| Classes begins | January 16, 2018 |
| Last day of classes | April 30, 2018 |
| Academic Deadlines | |
| Last Day to Change/Drop | January 22, 2018 |
| First Day 'W' Grade Assigned | January 23, 2018 |
| Last Day 'W' Grade Assigned | March 9, 2018 |
| First Day 'W/F' Grade Assigned | March 10, 2018 |
Prerequisites
A grade of C or better in MATH 142
Course Structure and Grading Policies
Your final grade will be computed as follows:
F = 0.25 * (T1 + T2 + T3 + T4)
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In-class tests:
There will be four in-class tests scheduled as follows:Test # Date 1 Tue Feb 20 2 Thu Mar 08 3 Thu Mar 29 4 Thu Apr 12 -
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 Thursday, April 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.- Section 005: Thursday, May 3, 2018. 12:30 PM
- Section 010: Tuesday, May 8, 2018. 12:30 PM
No make-up tests will be given. Only the following reasons are valid excuses for missing class or assignments, and must be verified by letter from a doctor, guardian or supervisor.
- 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+ | 85%-89% |
| B | 80%-84% |
| C+ | 75%-79% |
| C | 70%-74% |
| D+ | 65%-69% |
| D | 60%-64% |
| 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
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First part: Introduction to Differential Equations
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Tue Jan 16: 1.1, 1.2. [Review: Integration]
General Introduction to Differential Equations.
Integrals as general and particular solutions.
[p.8 #1--31,37--42, p.15 #1--10] -
Thu Jan 18: 1.3, 2.4, 2.5.
Slope fields.
Numerical Approximation: Euler's methods.
[p.24 #1--10, p.113 #1,4,6,10] -
Tue Jan 23: 1.4, 1.6.
[slide | slide]
Separable equations. Singular Solutions.
Homogeneous First-Order equations.
[p.40 #1--28, p.69 #2,3,7--10,12--14] -
Thu Jan 25: 1.5, 1.6.
[slides]
Linear first-order differential equations. Bernoulli equation.
[p.53 #1--25, 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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Tue Jan 30: 1.6.
[slides]
General Substitution Methods.
[p.74 #1,4--6,15--18] -
Thu Feb 01: 1.6
[slide|slides]
Exact equations. Reducible Second-order Differential Equations.
[p.74 #31--54] -
Thu Feb 06: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.
[slides]
Intro to linear differential equations of Higher Order.
Second-Order Linear Equations.
[p.147 #1--16] -
Tue Feb 08: 3.5.
[slide | slide | slide]
Homogeneous linear second-order differential equations with constant coefficients.
Particular solutions for Second-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients:
- Variation of parameters.
[p.147 #33--42, p.170 #1--9,21,22,23, p.195 #1,2,3,6,10] -
Thu Feb 13: 3.5.
[slide]
Particular solutions for Second-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients:
- Undetermined coefficients.
[p.195 #21,23,26,31--35,53--55] - Thu Feb 15: Review
- Tue Feb 20: First Test
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Tue Jan 16: 1.1, 1.2. [Review: Integration]
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Second Part: Laplace Transform
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Thu Feb 22: 7.1, 7.2.
[slides]
Improper integrals revisited. The Laplace Transform
[p.445 #2,3,4,6,35]
Find the Laplace transform of \( f(x) = \cos \beta x \), and \( f(x) = 1/\sqrt{x} \) using the definition. -
Tue Feb 27: 7.4, 7.3
[slide | slide]
The Gamma Function.
Linearization and Translation on the s-axis.
Assignment
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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Thu Mar 01: 7.2.
[slide | slide]
Differentiation of Transforms.
Laplace transform of derivatives.
Transformation of Initial Value Problems.
[p.456 #1--10, p.464 27--30, p.473 #15,16,17] -
Tue Mar 06: 7.3
[slides]
Integration of Transforms.
The Convolution property
[ p.481 #1--16]
Review
[p.446 #11,12,14, p.464 #2,4]
Find the Laplace transform of \( f(x) = \sin 3x \cos 3x \). Hint: Use the formula for the trigonometric function of the double angle.
Find the inverse Laplace transform of \( F(s) = (s^2 + 4)^{-2} \). Hint: \( F \) looks like the derivative of another function. - Thu Mar 08: Second Test
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Thu Feb 22: 7.1, 7.2.
[slides]
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Third Part: Applications to Mathematical Modeling
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Tue Mar 20: 2.1, 2.2.
Geometric Applications
[Notes and Homework] -
Thu Mar 22: 1.2, 2.3.
Population models
Equilibrium solutions and stability
[p.40 #33,34,37, p.82 #15,16,21,22,23,26] - Tue Mar 27: Integration Challenge
- Thu Mar 29: Review
- Tue Apr 03: Third Test
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Thu Apr 05: 3.4.
Mechanical vibrations:
- Free undamped motion
- Free damped motion
[p.181 #1--4,13] -
Tue Apr 10: 3.6.
Mechanical vibrations:
- Undamped forced oscillations
- Damped forced oscillations
[p.181 #15--21, p.206 #1--4] - Thu Apr 12: Review
- Tue Apr 17: Fourth Test
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Thu Apr 19: 1.4.
Applications of Torricelli's Law
[p.42 #54--64]
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Tue Mar 20: 2.1, 2.2.
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Reviews
- Tue Apr 24: Review (1|2)
- Tue Apr 26: Review (2|2)