COURSE: Advanced Calculus for Applications I, M427K #55960, Fall 2001 ------ TEXT: Boyce and DiPrima, "Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary ---- Value Problems", 7th edition. SYLLABUS: Ch. 2: 1st Order Differential Equations (5 days) -------- Ch.3,4: Higher Order Linear Equations (5 days) Ch. 5: Series Solutions of 2nd Order Linear Equations (5 days) Ch. 7: Systems of 1st Order Linear Equations (2 days) Ch. 6: The Laplace Transform (2 days) Ch. 10: Partial Diff. Equations and Fourier series (6 days) INSTRUCTOR: H. Koch, Office Hours TTh 2:30-4:00, RLM 12.152, Tel: 471-8183, ---------- Email: koch@math.utexas.edu, Web: www.ma.utexas.edu/users/koch/ GRADING: Letter grades (A,B,C,D,F) will be given for each | 90 -100 A ------- exam, but number grades (100,99,..,2,1,0) will be | 80 - 89 B kept for averaging. The course grade will be obtained | 70 - 79 C by averaging the scores of the four exams, and of the | 60 - 69 D homework. Each student may replace the grade of any | 0 - 59 F ONE exam by the grade of one of the following exams. HOMEWORK will be assigned every Tuesday and collected one week later in -------- class. Each assignment is graded on a scale from zero to 20. Half the sum of the ten highest scores contributes 6% to the class grade. EXAMS: There will be four sixty-minutes, | Homework 6% ----- cumulative (approx 80% new and 20% | Exam 1 ( Th Sep 20 ) 22% old material) exams. Books, notes or | Exam 2 ( Th Oct 18 ) 23% calculators are not allowed. No make | Exam 3 ( Th Nov 15 ) 24% up exams will be given. FINAL -----> | Exam 4 ( Tu Dec 18 ) 25%