MA 214: Ordinary differential equations

Course information

  • Meeting times: MWF 0800-0850 CB 341
  • Office hours: T1400-1600, R1000-1100 (all times in POT 718), and by appointment.
  • Syllabus (updated 5 February, 2007)
  • Homework
  • Exams

Homework

Exercises

  • Section 2.1, problems 13, 15, 30, 33
  • Section 2.1, problems 2, 31, 32, 34, 35; section 2.2, problems 1, 2, 4, 7, 12
  • Section 2.1, problems 36, 38; section 2.2, problems 21, 29; section 2.3, as many problems as it takes
  • Section 2.1, any two problems from 39--42; section 2.3, continue working problems; section 2.4, any two problems from 1-6, any two problems from 7-12, problems 15, 22, 23
  • Section 2.3, continue working problems; section 2.4, problem 27; section 2.5, problems 3, 7, 10, 18
  • Section 2.4, any two problems from 28-31; section 2.5, problem 16, 20, 21; section 2.6, problems 1-6
  • Section 2.6, problems 10, 12, 13, 18, 21
  • Section 2.7, problems 1-4, 6, 9, 11, 15, 19, 20
  • Section 2.7, problems 21, 22, 23; section 2.8, problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 13, 14
  • Section 2.8, problems 13, 14, 15, 19 (optionally 16-18)
  • Section 3.1, problems 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 12, 15, 17, 18
  • Section 3.1, problems 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28; section 3.2, problems 1, 2, 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 17, 22, 23, 26, 28, 30, 31
  • Section 3.2, problems 33-36; section 3.3, problems 2, 7, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24
  • Section 3.4, problems 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, 20, 23, 28, 29, 32
  • Section 3.4, problems 33, 34; section 3.5, problems 2, 5, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 22, 24, 26, 27
  • Section 3.6, problems 1, 2, 4, 6
  • Section 3.6, problems 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17
  • Section 3.6, more problems
  • Section 3.7, problems 1, 6, 7, 11, 14, 21
  • Section 3.7, problems 15, 16, 19, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
  • Section 5.1, problems 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, 20, 23, 26, 28
  • Section 5.2, problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 15, 19, 20
  • Section 5.2, problems 21, 22, 23
  • Section 5.3, problems 1, 3, 8, 10, 13, 15, 23, 24, 26; section 5.4, problems 1, 2, 5, 6
  • Section 5.4, problems 19, 20, 21, 24, 25; section 5.5, problems 1, 2, 4
  • Section 6.1, problems 5, 6, 8, 21, 22, 23, 24
  • Section 6.1, problems 26, 27; section 6.2, problems 1-14
  • Section 6.2, problems 18, 27, 29-34

Course handouts

Exams

  • 31 January. Exam 1
  • 28 February. Exam 2
  • 4 April. Exam 3
  • 2 May. Exam 4

Contact information

Michael Slone
Department of Mathematics
Patterson Office Tower 718
University of Kentucky
Lexington KY 40506-0027

Phone: +1 859 257-6806
Fax: +1 859 257-4078
Email: {given initial + family name} AT ms DOT uky DOT edu

Schedule and announcements

  • 20 February, 2007: Online grade reports are available for those students who requested it. Visit /~mslone/ma214/yoursecretcodehere.html to view your grades.
  • 5 February, 2007: The syllabus has been updated to reflect the homework policy we discussed in class.
  • 21 January, 2007: Office hours have been set.
  • 16 January, 2007: The syllabus contained a typo. Exam 3 is on 4 April. This has been fixed in the online syllabus.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
0800 MA 214
CB 341
research MA 214
CB 341
research MA 214
CB 341
0900 MA 764
CB 341
research MA 764
CB 341
research MA 764
CB 341
1000 MA 714
CB 345
research MA 714
CB 345
Office hour
POT 718
MA 714
CB 345
11xx lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch
1200 research research
1300 MA 751
CB 345
research MA 751
CB 345
research MA 751
CB 345
1400 Office hour
POT 718
research
1500 Office hour
POT 718
1600 Math and algebra /
Graduate student colloquium
Colloquium

Office hours

All office hours will be held in POT 718.

  • Tuesday, 1400-1600
  • Thursday, 1000-1100

Legend

  • MA 214: Ordinary differential equations (MWF 0800-0850, CB 341)
  • MA 764: Homological algebra II (MWF 0900-0950, CB 341)
  • MA 714: Triangulations of point configuations (MWF 1000-1050, CB 345)
  • MA 751: Geometric homotopy theory (MWF 1300-1350, CB 345)
  • Math and algebra: the informal name for the algebra, geometry, and algebraic combinatorics seminar (W 1600-1700, alternate weeks)
  • Graduate student colloquium: our pizza seminar, only without the pizza (W 1600-1700, alternate weeks; I'm trying to fix the lack of pizza)
  • Colloquium: departmental mathematical colloquium (R 1600-1700, sporadic)
  • lunch: the thing with food in (daily)
  • research: the thing with proofs in (also daily, but especially TR 0800-1100, TR 1200-1500, and weekends)