Class meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:40-3:00 PM at: TILDEN HALL 204 (Livingston Campus)
Text: Paul Blanchard, Robert L. Devaney & Glen Hall; Differential Equations (Third Edition), Brooks/Cole, 2006
Instructor: Eduardo Sontag, email: sontag@math (add .rutgers.edu if mailing from outside Rutgers)Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-1:00, 724 Hill Center and by arrangement on Livingston Campus before or after class on Thursdays in room Lucy Stone Hall B Wing Room 102C. - you should let the instructor know in advance if you will be coming in (also, any other mutually convenient times, by appointment, and "24/7" communication by email)
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teaching
evaluations (and some comments of mine)
Syllabus,
Notes, and Homework Assignments In this course, you will use computers for obtaining phase
planes and numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations.
There is a package available in the CD ROM that comes with the
book, but the instructor prefers if you use the following Java
Applet, which should run on any Java-enabled browser: JOde
(If you prefer, you can use any other software which includes ODE
solvers, such as Maple or Matlab (which are available on many campus
computers. For Maple, very little is needed in order to do what is
needed for this course. Read this, and cut and paste in to Maple to
obtain results and modify the sample equations to see what happens:
one-page
of instructions on solving/graphing differential equations using
Maple.) Now for the part that you really do not care about, but anyway ;-)
Roughly, quizzes and projects will count for 20% of the
grade, each of two term exams 20%, and the final exam 40%. However,
these percentages may be adjusted, especially if there end up being a
substantial number of projects.
Class attendance is expected. There will be no make-ups for
quizzes or exams.
(To allow for quizzes missed because of personal problems and
such, the two lowest quiz scores will be dropped.)
Computer Use
Grading