Teaching

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Spring 2024: Math 2700 (CRN 56706) Elementary Differential Equations

Instructor: Ruiwen Shu

Email: ruiwen.shu@uga.edu

Office Hours: TuTh 1:00-2:00

• Location: Boyd Grad Rsch Ctr 541

Lecture time/location:

• TuTh 2:20-3:35, Geography/Geology 0300A

Textbook: Differential Equations, 4th Edition, by Blanchard, Devaney and Hall

Syllabus: (updated Mar. 19, 2024)

Final exam: 3:30-5:30pm on Tuesday, May 7th. Location: Geography/Geology 0300A (same as lecture)

2-hour exam, 8 problems, accumulative, weighted more on Chapter 6.

The following table for Laplace transform (from textbook) will be given during the exam:

Lecture notes

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Some suggested problems in textbook: (answers are available in the textbook)

Sec. 1.6: 1, 3, 7, 23, 25; Sec. 1.7: 5, 11

Sec. 2.1: 2, 3; Sec 2.2: 7(a)(b)(e), 9, 21; Sec. 2.3: 1(b)(c), 8(b); Sec. 2.4: 13(a)(b)(c); Sec. 2.5: 3, 4 (only do n=2 steps)

Exam solutions

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Below are contents of Math 8500 in Fall 2023:

Projects

Project 1: due on Thursday, Sep. 21

Project 2: due on Thursday, Oct. 26

Project 3: to be assigned on Thursday, Nov. 9; due on Thursday, Nov. 30

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Take-home exams

Exam 1: due on Thursday, Sep. 28

Exam 2: due on Thursday, Nov. 2

Exam 3: due on Thursday, Nov. 30

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Lecture notes

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