Math 231
Differential Equations with Linear Algebra
Spring, 2012

Course information Course syllabus Course calendar Homework assignments Study guides for: Test 1, Test 2, Test 3 | Inverse Laplace transform worksheet solutions | Table of Laplace transforms 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 Instructional videos at Khan Academy on ODE and linear algebra topics 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 Sage, an open-source computer algebra system 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 Mathematica Online Mathematica integrator Wolfram alpha OCTAVE (Windows users should download from the Octave Forge link), a free MATLAB clone | a tutorial | online documentation

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Calvin College