Mathematics 231, Section B
Differential Equations with Linear Algebra
Calvin College, Spring 2008

Professor

Name: Dr. Amy Moore

Office Location : NH 285

Office Phone: (616) 526-8715

Email: abm4@calvin.edu or amybethmoore@yahoo.com

URL: http://www.calvin.edu/~abm4

Office Hours: MTWThF 10:30 - 11:20, and by appointment

Syllabus

MTH 231 B : http://www.calvin.edu/~abm4/courses/m231/S08/231Bsyllabus.pdf

Textbook

Book: Elementary Differential Equations, Eighth Edition by William E. Boyce and Richard C. DiPrima, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005

Website: http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&itemId=0471433381&bcsId=2021

Useful Links 

Direction Field Calculators  
(Linear First Order Equations) :


Direction Field Calculators 
(Systems of Two Linear 
First Order Equations):

Euler's Method Mathematica 
Notebook:

Improved Euler's Method 
Mathematica Notebook: 

Runge-Kutta Method
Mathematica Notebook:

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/JODE/JOdeApplet.html
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rewn/dirfld.html
http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/calc/DiffEqu/DiffEqu.html

http://www.scottsarra.org/applets/dirField2/dirField2.html
http://www.math.psu.edu/melvin/phase/newphase.html


http://www.calvin.edu/~abm4/courses/m231/S08/Euler.nb


http://www.calvin.edu/~abm4/courses/m231/S08/ImEuler.nb


http://www.calvin.edu/~abm4/courses/m231/S08/RK.nb

Quiz Solutions, Test Topics, and Test Solutions

Quiz Solutions 
Test Topics 
Test Solutions

Quiz 1

Quiz 2

Quiz 3

Quiz 4

Quiz 5

Test 1

Test 2

Test 3

Test 1

Test 2

Test 3

Homework Assignments

Assignment #
Due Date
Assignment
1
Monday, February 4

1.1: 1, 8, 11, 12 (use slope field calculator), 15, 23

1.3: 7, 15, 19

1.2: 1, 15(a), 16

2
Monday, February 11

2.1: 7, 13, 15, 21, 25, 26 (may use slope field calculator for part(a) in 7, 21, 25, 26)

2.2: 2, 3, 9, 11, 15, 16

2.3: 3, 4, 12, 17, 20, 21

2.4: 1, 2

3
Monday, February 18

2.4: 7, 8, 11, 15, 22

2.5: 2 - 5, 8 - 11

2.6: 1, 10, 11, 13, 20

3.1: 1, 3, 7, 10, 12, 19

4
Monday, February 25

3.2: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 13, 14, 21, 24

3.3: 1, 3, 4, 5, 15 - 18

5
Monday, March 3

3.4: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 15, 17, 19

3.5: 2, 3, 5, 11, 12, 23 - 25

3.6: 1 - 4, 13, 15, 18, 29

6
Monday, March 17

3.7: 7, 8, 10, 13, 14

3.8: 6, 8, 10, 12, 17, 24

3.9: 5 - 7, 9, 10

7
Monday, March 24

6.1: 1, 3, 5, 6, 15

Writing Assignment

8
Monday, March 31

6.2: 11, 13 - 15, 17, 18, 22, 23

6.3: 2, 4, 7 - 9, 11

9
Monday, April 7

6.3: 13, 16, 17

6.4: 1, 3, 9, 12

6.5: 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10

6.6: 4, 6, 8, 10, 15

7.2: 2 - 4, 8, 9

10
Monday, April 14

7.2: 10 - 13, 14, 16, 18

7.3: 1 - 7, 15 - 17, 19 - 22, 24

7.4: 6

11
Monday, April 21

7.5: 1, 2, 4, 6 - 8, 11 - 13, 16

7.6: 1 - 3, 5, 7, 25(b)(c)(d)

7.7: 3, 4, 6, 11, 12

7.8: 1 - 3, 5, 10

12
Monday, April 28
No Assignment Due
13
Monday, May 5

7.9: 1, 2, 4

8.1: 1(a)(b), 2(a)(b), 3(a)(b)

8.2: 1(a)(b), 2(a)(b), 3(a)(b)
14
Not Collected

8.3: 1 - 3

9.1: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6

9.2: 5, 6

9.3: 5, 6