- Exam 1, Thu Feb 7
- first order equations: direction fields, theorem, Picard iteration
- first order equations: linear, separable, exact, integrating factors
- n-th order linear equations: fundamental sets of solutions, reduction of order (n=2)
- Exam 2, Thu Mar 7
- (n-th order linear equations)
- possibly some topic from Exam 1
- homogeneous equations with constant coefficients
- non-homogeneous equations: method of undetermined coefficients
- non-homogeneous equations: method of variation of parameters (n=2)
- power series, series solution near an ordinary point, radius of convergence
- Exam 3, Thu Apr 11
- possibly some topic from Exam 1 or 2
- Euler equations, series solution near a regular singular point
- Laplace transform and its inverse, including discontinuous functions
- solving differential equations using the Laplace transform
- Exam 4, Thu May 9
- possibly some topic from Exam 1, 2, or 3
- systems of linear ODEs
- two-point boundary value problems
- Fourier series, even and odd functions
- separation of variables, heat conduction problems (fixed boundary temp)