DfyQ[2021g]

Our Teaching Page has useful information for students in all of my classes. It has my schedule, LOR guidelines, and Usually Useful Pamphlets. One of them is the Checklist The checklist

(pdf) which gives pointers on what I consider to be good mathematical writing. Further information is at our class-archive URL (I email this private URL directly to students).

Assignment for Add/Drop week

In order to determine what you need to review over the weekend, please use 80 minutes do to as many problems as you can from this self-test of prerequisite knowledge. Then use the internet and your calculus textbook to grade yourself. This will help you determine what you need to review.
Can you solve all of these: A more extensive self-test of prerequisite skills?

Textbook: Fundamentals of Differential Eqns with Boundary Value Problems, (7^th edition). Author: Nagle, Saff & Snider. [While that is the official textbook, you may use the 6th, 7th,8th, or 9th editions.]

[We will also use Wikipedia and perhaps other online sources.]

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DfyQ syllabus (in progress)
Current assignment: The Math-Greek alphabet (pdf).
Current assignment: Learn the abbreviations on the first page of the below DiffyNotes.
Current assignment: Peruse our DiffyNotes [of Prof.K] (pdf). [] We'll use these for class lectures. Our textbook will be used for reading assigments and as a problem-reservoir.
Near future: W: (skim) ODE. W: (skim) Linear DE. W: SoV W:(skim) Differential Eqn.
Future: Wikipedia: W:Complex number and W:Exponential function.
Distant future: W: FTODE, Picard-Lindelöf theorem.
Distant future: The useful Euler-Mascheroni constant and Gamma (pdf). See also W: Gamma fnc and Euler's constant. A place where the Polor-coordinate Trick is used, is the normalizing constant of the Gaussian distribution.
For the curious: The Gamma fnc, and Volume of the n-ball (pdf).
Distant future: The Laplace transform (pdf) has an example, a simplification of tapping on a bell. Also available is a small Table of Laplace transforms (pdf).

DiffyQ

Assignment for Add/Drop week

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