Math 231
Differential Equations with Linear Algebra
Spring, 2011

Course information Course syllabus Course calendar Homework assignments Moodle (find HW/exam solutions for MATH 231) Grading Codes Professor Scofield's homepage (see for office hours, for instance) Course links Supplements to course content Differential equations supplements “Notes on Differential Equations”, by Robert E. Terrell of Cornell U. (contains material on ODEs and PDEs interspersed) “Notes on Diffy Qs: Differential Equations for Engineers”, by Jiří Lebl of U. of Illinois Linear algebra supplements “Introduction to Matrix Algebra”, by Autar Kaw of U. of South Florida “Elementary Linear Algebra”, by Keith Matthews of U. of Queensland Some higher-level linear algebra notes written by Prof. T. Kapitula Java applets A multigraph applet Direction field/solution curve plotter for first-order DEs: dfield, another option Phase plane plotters for 1st-order systems in 2 dimensions: pplane, another option Euler's method on some predefined example problems A Runge-Kutta applet Software links OCTAVE (Windows users should download from the Octave Forge link), a free MATLAB clone | a tutorial | online documentation Sage, an open-source computer algebra system sagenb.org, where you may create an account and run Sage remotely through a browser documentation by Prof. M. Boelkins of GVSU specific to the use of Sage in DEs instructions/source for TeX fonts for jsMath sagemath.org, the main website Online Mathematica integrator

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Calvin College