COURSE: Advanced Calculus for Applications I, M427K #57705, Fall 2009 ------ PREREQUISITES: 408D or M408L or the equivalent, with a grade of at least C. ------------- TEXT: Boyce and DiPrima, "Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary ---- Value Problems", 9th 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, and by appointment ---------- Office: RLM 12.152, EMail: koch@math.utexas.edu, Web: www.ma.utexas.edu/users/koch/ | 96 -100 A | 92 - 95 A- GRADING: Letter grades (A,A-,B+,...,D-,F) will be given for | 88 - 91 B+ ------- each exam, but number grades (100,99,..,2,1,0) will | 84 - 87 B be kept for averaging. The course grade is obtained | 80 - 83 B- by averaging the number grades of the 3 exams and of | 76 - 79 C+ the homework. | 72 - 75 C | 68 - 71 C- HOMEWORK will be assigned on Tuesdays and collected one week | 64 - 67 D+ -------- later in class. Each assignment is graded on a scale | 60 - 63 D from zero to 20. Half the sum of the ten highest HW | 56 - 59 D- scores contributes 10% to the class grade. | 0 - 55 F EXAMS: Two 70 minute in-class (Exam 1, Exam 2) | Exam 1 (Th Sep 24) 30% ----- and a 120 minute Final (Exam 3, 9-11am) | Exam 2 (Th Oct 29) 30% Exams 2,3 cover approx 80% new and 20% | Exam 3 (Fr Dec 11) 30% old material. Make-up exams are given | Homework 10% only if a student missed an exam and can '------------------------- document a valid reason (an accident, illness, or legal obligation, whose timing was not known during the official add/drop period), or if granted by the instructor during the official add/drop period. MORE INFO: See the class web page http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/koch/M427K/ ---------