Welcome Math 1270 Students - Fall Term 2010

Instructors: W.C. Troy
Office: 503 Thackeray Hall (W. C. Troy), MW 2-3 pm.
Phone: 624-8325 (WCT) www.math.pitt.edu/~troy
email: troy@math.pitt.edu

Book: Edition 9 of "Elem. Diff. Eqs." by Boyce and DiPrima

The Course Grade is determined by homework and 3 exams as follows:
10% for Homework (no late homework accepted).
30% for exam I -Oct. 4; 30% for exam II-Nov. 8; 9% for the proficiency exam-Dec. 8, 21% for exam III-Dec. 10

Review session - Oct. 3, 5:30 pm 704 Thackeray Hall

Exam 1 - Monday, Oct. 4, 2010
Proficiency Exam-Dec.8, 2010 and Exam II-Dec. 10, 2010

The problems to hand in are assigned below.

Homework 1, due Sept. 13. p. 48, nos. 19, 24. p. 77, no. 30.

Homework 2, due October 22.-- p.155, no. 16, p. 172, no. 16, p. 173, no. 28.

Homework 3, due November 19. p. 260, nos. 21, 22

The exams are based on lectures, the homework and on problems like those suggested below.

Suggested problems to know for the exams.

Chapter 1:

pp. 15-17 nos. 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15

pp. 24-25, 1-20, 25-28

Chapter 2:

p.39 nos. 13-20, 29, 30, 36, 38

pp. 47-48 nos. 1-12, 22-26, 29, 30

pp.76-77 nos. 13-16,27,28-31

p.89 nos. 15, 17

pp. 99-100 nos. 1-12

p. 130 nos. 1-6, 14

p. 134-135 nos. 36-51

Chapter 3:

pp. 144-145 nos. 1-19, 23, 28

pp. 155-156 nos. 1-27, 33-38

pp. 165-166 nos. 1-22, 25, 38-42

pp. 171-173 nos. 1-14, 23-30

pp. 183 nos. 1-5, 7,9,11, 13-18

p. 189 1-18

Chapter 4:

p. 224 nos. 1-16

p. 231-232 nos. 1-24

Chapter 5:
p. 249 nos. 1, 3, 5,7, 9-12, 19-20

p. 259-260 nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 21, 22

p. 265 nos. 1-4

p. 276 nos. 1-10, p. 282 1-12

Chapter 7: Systems

pp. 359-360 1-6,8-11

p. 398 1-8, 15, 16 - just find the solutions, no graphing necessry.

p. 410 (Complex eigenvalues) 1-6, 9,10

p. 420 (Fundamental matrix solution) 1-9, 11, 12.

p. 428 (Repeated eigenvalues) 1-7.

p. 439-440 (Non-homogeneous equations) 1-12.

Last updated 11/20/2008