MAT 261:  Differential Equations

Course Syllabus

FINAL GRADE UPDATE  (06/30/06)

<>Final grades are done.  All letter grades are final.  The average on the Final Exam was 71% which was fairly consistent with the quizzes over the course of the five week session.  You can make an
appointment to stop by after August 16th to take a look at your exam and discuss it.  

I hope you all have a great rest of your summer!

Direction Field Links:

http://math.rice.edu/~dfield/dfpp.html
http://www.scottsarra.org/applets/dirField1/dirField1.html
http://www.math.psu.edu/melvin/phase/newphase.html
http://alamos.math.arizona.edu/ODEApplet/JOdeApplet.html
http://www.ms.washington.edu/matweb/webdf/webdf1.html



MATLAB files for numerical simulation of ODEs


LAPLACE  TRANSFORM  ITEMS:

NEW:  Example started in class on Thursday 04/06/06 but was not finished due to lack of time (shifting a function to apply the Heaviside Shift Theorem.)

Maple Code for Finding Laplace Transforms...

with(inttrans); laplace(t^2,t,s);

Interesting Link on DEs and Laplace Transforms



   Spring-Mass Simulation Program for MATLAB

Directions:     1.  Copy the entire program into a clipboard.
2.  Open up MATLAB program
                3.  From the file menu, select NEW m-file.
     4.  Paste the program into the file.
                   5.  Save as spring.m (file type:  all files *.*)
                                         6.  Inside the MATLAB program, type spring, and hit enter.
    7.  Experiment with the program.


Putzer Algorithm (case of duplicate eigenvalues and not enough eigenvectors)

 Variation of Parameters and Calculating Inverses of Fundamental Matrices


Last Updated 05/09/06