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Syllabus (updated — 1/23)
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Errata for the Farlow Textbook
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Desmos Grapher
Week 1 (1/27) - Syllabus and Course Mechanics; Basic Concepts and Classification I
HW: Read the syllabus closely; Read the Prologue and Section 1.1 (pp.2--13)
1.1) 1, 2, 4, 7, 12, 13, 16
Day 1 Materials
Basic Ideas Notes
Week 2 (2/3) - Classification II and General Notions
HW: Read Section 1.2
1.2) 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 14, 26b,e, 30, 32, 33, 34b,d, 41, 42, 44
Bonus Questions: 35, 45, 46, 48.
Beginning Theory Notes
Picard Notes (with examples)
Week 3 (2/14) - First Order, Integrating Factor, Separability
Read 2.3-2.6 for next week!
HW: 2.1) 2, 8, 14, 19, 21, 24, 27, 31; 2.2) 2-9, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 28, 39
Bonus: 2.1) 22, 23, 26; 2.2) 41, 42, 43
Week 4 (2/21) - Separability and Other First Order
Watch before 3/1 (~90 mins):
HW: 2.3) 5, 6, 12; 2.4) 3, 4; 2.5) 1,3, 7 OR 8
Bonus: 2.3) 36, 41, two questions below:
1.) Write your own ``homogeneous" ODE and solve it completely.
2.) Write your own exact ODE and solve; draw two or three level curves of the potential function.