COURSE: Advanced Calculus for Applications I, M427K #56660, Spring 2014
------ TTh 11:00-12:30, RLM 4.102, attendance is mandatory.
PREREQUISITES: M408D or M408L or M408S, with a grade of at least C-
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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 (5 days)
INSTRUCTOR: Hans Koch, Office Hours Tue Thu Fri 4:00-5:00 pm
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GRADING: Letter grades (A,A-,B+,...,D-,F) will be given for | 93 -100 A
------- each exam, but number grades (100,99,..,2,1,0) will | 89 - 92 A-
be kept for averaging. The course grade is obtained | 85 - 88 B+
by averaging the number grades of the 4 exams and of | 81 - 84 B
the quizzes. Each student may replace the grade of | 77 - 80 B-
ONE exam by the grade of one of the following exams. | 73 - 76 C+
| 69 - 72 C
HOMEWORK problems will be posted on Wednesdays. | 65 - 68 C-
-------- Homework is NOT graded or even collected, but ... | 61 - 64 D+
QUIZZES are given in the TA sessions, roughly every 4 weeks, | 57 - 60 D
------- consisting of slightly modified homework problems. | 53 - 56 D-
The quizzes contribute 10% to the class grade. | 0 - 52 F
EXAMS: Three 70 minute in-class (Exams 1,2,3) | Exam 1 (Th Feb 6) 21%
----- and a 120 minute Final (Exam 4, 2-4 pm) | Exam 2 (Th Mar 6) 22%
The exams are mostly on new material. | Exam 3 (Th Apr 10) 23%
Books, calculators, or notes are not | Exam 4 (Mo May 12) 24%
allowed. No make-up exams will be given. | Quizzes 10%
MORE INFO: See the class web page http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/koch/M427K/
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