The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Aristotle

date			no	topic	reading	homework due
aug	29	T	1	introduction	1.1
	31	Th	2	initial-value problems & modeling	1.2-1.3	1.1: 2,8,10,14,16,20,24,28,30,38
sep	5	T	3	solutions & separable	2.1-2.2	1.2: 4,10,14,20,30; 1.3: 6,8,18,24,36 (26,40)
	7	Th	4	linear equations	2.3	2.1: 4,20,22,34; 2.2: 2,8,16,24,28 (30)
	12	T	5	exact equations	2.4	2.3: 6,10,14,18,24,26,30,36,(46)
	14	Th	6	substitutions	2.5	2.4: 4,6,14,18,22,26,28,30,32 (10,34,36,38)
	19	T	7	linear modeling	3.1	2.5: 2,4,8,12,16,22,24,28,30 (20,26)
	21	Th	8	nonlinear modeling	3.2	3.1: 4,8,10,12,14,34,36,40
	26	T	9	systems of equations	3.3	3.2: 2,4,8,10 (20)
	28	Th	10	higher order de	4.1	3.3: 4,6,12,20
oct	3	T		Test 1 (chapter 1-3)
	5	Th	11	homogeneous equations	4.2-4.3	4.1: 2,4,10,14,16,20,24,32,36 (28,40)
	10	T	12	undetermined coefficients	4.4	4.2: 4,6,14,18,22; 4.3: 2,8,16,26,32 (36,50)
	12	Th	13	undetermined coefficients	4.5	4.4: 2,4,10,28,32,38 (14,36,40)
	17	T	14	variation of parameters	4.6	4.5: 4,6,10,12,16,20,28,36,40,48
	19	Th	15	Cauchy-Euler equation	4.7	4.6: 2,6,8,12,16,20,24
	24	T	16	systems of equations	4.8-4.9	4.7: 8,12,16,20,22,32,38 (24,36)
	26	Th	17	modeling	5.1	4.8: 4,6,10,22 (16); 4.9: 2,4,12,14
	31	T		Test 2 (chapter 4)
nov	2	Th	18	modeling	5.1
	7	T	19	boundary value problems	5.2	5.1: 2,6,22,30,38
	9	Th	20	nonlinear equations	5.3	5.2: 6,10,12,16,28,32
	14	T	21	power series	6.1	5.3: 14,16 (20)
	16	Th	22	series solutions	6.2	6.1: 2,6,8,10,14,18,22 (28,30)
	21	T		Test 3 (chapter 5)
	23	Th		thanksgiving break
	28	T	23	Laplace transform	7.1-7.2	6.2: 4,6,8,12,14,16,20
	30	Th	24	transforms	7.3-7.4	7.1: 6,14,18,24,34,38; 7.2: 4,8,12,20,28,32,36
dec	5	T	25	applications	7.5	7.3: 6,10,20,24,30; 7.4: 2,8,10,14,20,34
	7	Th	26	review		7.5: 2,4,10,16 (8,14,20)
	11	M		Final Exam (2:00-4:00pm)

note: extra credit problems are indicated as (italics)