Week	Topics	Assignments
Jan 22 - 24	Introduction and Review : Chapter 1, Section 2.1	Problems with a (*) are not  compulsory!
Jan 27 - 31	First Order Differential Equations Methods of Solving Differential Equations : 2.2, 2.6 Existence of Solutions : 2.8	Section 1.3: 5, 6  Section 2.1: 15, 16, 17, 28  Section 2.2: 4, 6, 10, 25  Section 2.4: read this section!  Section 2.6: 4, 6, 18, 19, 27  due February 6th
Feb 3 - 7	Second Order Differential Equations Homogeneous Equations Fundamental Solutions : 3.1, 3.2 Linear Spaces of Solutions : 3.3	Section 2.8: 4, 7  Section 3.1: 5, 6, 11, 12, 33, 34  Section 3.2: 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 31  due February 13th
Feb 10 - 14	Constant Coefficient Equations Complex and Repeated Roots : 3.4, 3.5 Non-homogeneous Equations : 3.6, 3.7	Section 3.3: 4, 8, 10, 17, 21, 25  Section 3.4: 10, 12, 18, 19  Section 3.5: 6, 14, 20, 25  Section 3.6: 3, 7  due February 20th
Feb 17 - 21	MIDTERM 1 postponed until next week Review Practice problems (PDF), (PostScript)	Section 3.4: 34*, 37  Section 3.5: 28, 31  Section 3.6: 13, 15, 17, 32*, 33  Section 3.7: 2, 9, 14, 17, 28*, 30  due February 27th
Feb 24 - 28	MIDTERM 1 (Monday 24th February) Power Series Solutions Review of Series : 5.1, 5.2	Section 3.7: 18, 29  Section 5.1: 4, 6, 13, 14, 17, 23, 24, 28  Section 5.2: 7, 8, 9  due March 6th
Mar 3 - 7	Series Solutions Ordinary Points : 5.3 Regular Singular Points and Euler Equations : 5.4, 5.5, 5.6	Section 5.2: 19, 21  Section 5.3: 6, 8, 13, 17, 22*, 23*  Section 5.4: 8, 9, 18, 19  Section 5.5: 4, 6, 15, 18, 19  due March 13th
Mar 10 - 14	Series Solutions Regular Singular Points : 5.6, 5.7 Bessel's Equations : 5.8	Section 5.6: 3, 4, 10, 11, 13, 14  Section 5.7: 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 16, 20*  Section 5.8: 1, 6, 8, 9*, 10*  due March 27th
Mar 17 - 21	Mid-Semester Break Do Some Revision!
Mar 24 - 28	The Laplace Transform Definition and solution of IVPs : 6.1, 6.2 Discontinuous functions : 6.3, 6.4	Section 5.2: 2, 5, 12  Section 5.8: 3, 4  Section 6.1: 5, 7, 17, 19  Section 6.2: 5, 8, 14, 16, 22, 27*  due April 3rd
Mar 31 - Apr 4	MIDTERM 2 (Wednesday 2nd April) Review Practice problems (PDF), (PostScript)	Section 6.3: 2, 9, 14, 18  Section 6.4: 3, 7, 9, 15  due April 10th
Apr 7 - 11	The Laplace Transform Impulse functions and convolution : 6.5, 6.6	Section 6.5: 4, 6, 16 (part (d) is optional)  Section 6.6: 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 16  Section 10.1: 3, 8, 13  Section 10.2: 11, 14, 16, 17  due April 24th
Apr 14 - 15	Fourier Series Boundary value problems and Fourier series : 10.1, 10.2	Continue last week's homework  due April 24th
Apr 21 - 25	Fourier series, even and odd functions : 10.3, 10.4 Partial Differential Equations The heat equation and separation of variables : 10.5	Section 10.3: 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 14*, 15*  Section 10.4: 8, 9, 17, 18, 24, 35  Section 10.5: 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 22*  due May 1st
Apr 28 - May 2	The heat equation : 10.6 The wave equation : 10.7	Section 10.5: 9, 13  Section 10.6: 2, 4, 9, 11, 14, 18  Section 10.7: 2, 6, 9, 10, 22* (ignore part (d) in 2, 6, 10)  due May 8th
May 5 - 9	Review Practice problems (PDF), (PostScript)
May 12 - 16	I will be available to answer revision questions on the afternoon of Friday 16th, in my office 4-104. If you need to see me at another time please make an appointment.
May 19	FINAL EXAM (Monday 19th May) In Grad Chem 126 (where the lectures were held) Note the time: 5-7:30pm !!!

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