| Class | Date | Quiz/Test/Assignment Due | Topics Covered (lab and project assignments, quizzes and quiz solutions, exam information and other materials are posted on the Course Materials page in Blackboard) | Practice Problems |
| 1 | Monday January 4 | Introduction to Math 244 1.1: Differential Equations and Mathematical Modeling 1.2: Integrals as general and particular solutions |
1.1: 1, 3, 7, 13, 15, 17, 19, 25, 27, 33, 37, 39 1.2: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 19, 25, 29, 31 |
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| 2 | Tuesday January 5 | 1.3: Slope fields and solution curves 1.4: Separable Equations and Applications |
1.3: 3, 5, 7, 21 1.4: 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 17, 19, 23, 27, 35, 37, 47 |
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| 3 | Thursday January 7 | 1.5: Linear First-Order Equations | 1.5: 1-25 odd | |
| 4 | Friday January 8 | Introduction to Maple and Wolfram Alpha | Use Wolfram Alpha to practice graphing functions and finding derivatives and integrals. | |
| 5 | Monday January 11 | 3.1: Introduction to Linear Systems | 3.1: 1, 5, 13, 15, 17, 23, 25 | |
| 6 | Tuesday January 12 | 3.2: Echelon Matrices and Gaussian Elimination | 3.2: 1, 9, 11, 15, 21 | |
| 7 | Thursday January 14 | Quiz 1 on 1.1-1.5 | Begin Newton's Law of Cooling Project | Newton's Law of Cooling Project |
| 8 | Friday January 15 | NO CLASS | ||
| Monday January 18 | NO CLASS | |||
| 9 | Tuesday January 19 | NO CLASS | ||
| 10 | Thursday January 21 | 3.2: Echelon Matrices and Gaussian Elimination 3.3: Reduced Row-Echelon Matrices |
3.2: 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 25 3.3: 1-25 odd, 33, 34 |
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| 11 | Friday January 22 | Newton's Law of Cooling Project Due | Lab/Project: How do GPS Systems Work? | |
| 12 | Monday January 25 | 3.4: Matrix Operations | 3.4: 1, 9, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37 | |
| 13 | Tuesday January 26 | Quiz 2 on 3.1-3.3 | 3.5: Inverses of Matrices | |
| 14 | Thursday January 28 | 3.5: Inverses of Matrices | 3.5: 5, 7, 11, 17, 23, 27, 32 | |
| 15 | Friday January 29 | Work on GPS Lab/Project | ||
| 16 | Monday February 1 | GPS Lab/Project Due | 3.6: Determinants | 3.6: 1, 3, 5, 43, 50, 51, 52, 53 |
| 17 | Tuesday February 2 | 4.1: The Vector Space R^3 | 4.1: 1-13 odd, 19-27 odd | |
| 18 | Thursday February 4 | In-class Exam 1 (on material through Section 3.6) | ||
| 19 | Friday February 5 | NO CLASS | ||
| 20 | Monday February 8 | 4.2: The Vector Space R^n and Subspaces | 4.2: 1-17 odd | |
| 21 | Tuesday February 9 | Quiz 3 on 4.1-4.2 | 4.3: Linear Combinations and Independence of Vectors | 4.3: 1-21 odd |
| 22 | Thursday February 11 | 4.4: Bases and Dimension for Vector Spaces | 4.4: 1-7 odd, 15-25 odd Read Example 5 in Section 4.4 for an example of how to do numbers 15-25! |
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| 23 | Friday February 12 | Maple Lab | 4.5: Column Spaces and the Nullspace | 4.5: 1-11 odd Note: For problems 1-11, find a basis for the column space, AND THE NULLSPACE of each matrix. You do NOT have to find a basis for the row space. Also find the dimension of the column space and nullspace, and verify that the Rank-Nullity Theorem is satisfied. |
| Monday February 15 | NO CLASS | |||
| 24 | Tuesday February 16 | 5.1: Introduction: Second-Order Linear Equations 5.2: General Solutions of Linear Equations |
5.1: 1-15 odd, 33-47 odd | |
| 25 | Thursday February 18 | Quiz 4 on 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 | 5.3: Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients | 5.3: 1-31 odd, 39 Note: For problems 1-31, you should use Wolfram Alpha (or another computational utility) to assist in finding the roots of the characteristic equation. |
| 26 | Friday February 19 | Maple Lab on 4.5 Due | Maple Lab: 5.4: Mechanical Vibrations | |
| 27 | Monday February 22 | 5.5: Nonhomogeneous Equations and Undetermined Coefficients | 5.5: 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 31, 33, 35 | |
| 28 | Tuesday February 23 | 5.5: Nonhomogeneous Equations and Undetermined Coefficients Review |
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| 29 | Thursday February 25 | In-class Exam 2 (on material from Section 4.1 through Section 5.5) | ||
| 30 | Friday February 26 | Maple Lab: 5.6: Forced Oscillations and Resonance | ||
| 31 | Monday March 1 | Maple Lab on 5.4 Due | 6.1: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors | 6.1: 1-25 odd, 33, 34 For problems 1-25 odd, just find all eigenvalues and eigenvectors of each matrix. |
| 32 | Tuesday March 2 | 6.1: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors | Same as Monday's homework | |
| 33 | Thursday March 4 | Quiz 5 on 6.1 | ||
| 34 | Friday March 5 | NO CLASS | ||
| 35 | Monday March 8 | 7.1: Linear Systems of DE's 7.2: Matrices and Linear Systems |
7.1 (note: these problems are on page 402 of your textbook!): 11-19 odd. For these problems, just find the solutions. You don't need to construct the direction field. |
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| 36 | Tuesday March 9 | 7.3: The Eigenvalue Method for Linear Systems | 7.3 (note: these problems are on page 427 of your textbook!): 1-5 (just find the solutions, don't need to construct the direction field or solution curves) |
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| 37 | Thursday March 11 | Review | ||
| 38 | Friday March 12 | Maple Lab on 5.6 Due LAST DAY OF CLASS |
Work on 5.6 Lab |