COURSE: Advanced Calculus for Applications I, M427K #60040, Fall 2007
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TEXT: Boyce and DiPrima, "Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary
---- Value Problems", 8th 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 (3 days)
Ch. 10: Partial Diff. Equations and Fourier series (6 days)
INSTRUCTOR: H. Koch, Office Hours TTh 2:30-4:00, RLM 12.152
---------- 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 | 80 - 89 B
be kept for averaging. The course grade will be | 70 - 79 C
obtained by averaging the scores of the three | 60 - 69 D
exams and of the homework. | 0 - 59 F
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 10% to the class grade.
EXAMS: There will be three 75-minute exams, | Exam 1 ( Th Sep 27 ) 30%
----- covering approx 80% new and 20% old | Exam 2 ( Th Nov 1 ) 30%
material. Exam 3 is the final ----> | Exam 3 ( Th Dec 13 ) 30%
Make-up exams will be given only if | Homework 10%
a student missed an exam and can document a valid reason.
HERE
are some changes concerning the 2nd midterm and the final exam.