MAT308: Differential Equations with Linear Algebra

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The first midterm was held on Wednesday, March 9 during classtime. It covered material from chapters 10 and 3.
Information about the exam, including grade distributions and the solutions, can be found here.
The second midterm was on Wednesday, April 13 during classtime, covering material from chapters 11, 12, and 13.
Information about the exam, including grade distributions and the solutions, can be found here.
The final will be 5:15-7:45pm on Monday, May 23 in Physics P-113 and will be cumulative, with an emphasis on material since the second midterm. One question on the exam will be a take-home question. Details can be found can be found here. This includes a distribution of how people did.

Java software for plotting direction fields and solutions for a first-order ODE.
- DEW1, from the DiffEqWeb project.
- DIRFLD, from Williamson & Trotter's applet collection.
A Java applet (from the MIT d'AIMP mathlets collection) to help visualize a convolution of two functions (f*g).
Some words about linearization and 2x2 systems, and an animation of a trip in the trace-determininant plane.
A java applet to draw the phase portrait of a system, written by Richard Mansfield of Penn State.

Scott Sutherland Stony Brook, Spring 2011