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Readings are sections in Zill First Course in Differential Equations with Modeling Applications, 10th edition. 
If you use another text, look up the lecture topic in the table of contents or index.

Lectures without a specified topic are buffers for the inevitable lag. Homeworks are listed on their due dates.

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date    lecture                      reading      homework

FIRST-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
W 01/22 intro, definitions           1
F 01/24 separable eqns               2.2
M 01/27 1st order linear             2.3          
W 01/29 exact equations              2.4           HW1
F 01/31                              
M 02/03 substitutions                2.5          
W 02/05 examples                                   HW2
F 02/07 review                       
M 02/10 EXAM #1


HIGHER-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (linear, and mostly 2nd order)
W 02/12 motivation, terminology
F 02/14 y=exp(lambda t), Euler's formula   4.3    
M 02/17
W 02/19 judicious guessing (undet. coeff)  4.4                                             
F 02/21
M 02/24                                    4.6     HW3
W 02/26 variation of parameters                   
F 02/28                                            
M 03/03                                            HW4
W 03/05 EXAM #2
F 03/07 boundary value problems

(spring break)

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS
M 03/24 definition, inverse transforms     7.1-2
W 03/26 derivatives, solving ODEs
F 03/28 s-translation                      7.3.1 

M 03/31 t-translation (Heaviside func)     7.3.2   HW5
W 04/02
F 04/04 Dirac delta function               7.5 

M 04/07 periodic funcs                     7.4.3   HW6
W 04/09 convolution
F 04/11
M 04/14 EXAM #3

SERIES SOLUTIONS 
W 04/16 power series review                6.1.1
F 04/18 solutions about ordinary points    6.1.2
M 04/21 regions of convergence 

W 04/23 matrices and vectors               AppII.1 HW7
F 04/25 Ax=b, determinants 
M 04/28 ODEs in matrix form, eigenvalues   8.1

W 04/30 real eigenvalues, distinct         8.2.1   HW8
F 05/02 real eigenvalues, repeated         8.2.2
M 05/05 complex eigenvalues                8.2.3
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