COURSE: Advanced Calculus for Applications I, M427K #55330, Fall 2010
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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 (8 days)
-------- Ch.3,4: Higher Order Linear Equations (9 days)
Ch. 5: Series Solutions of 2nd Order Linear Equations (6 days)
Ch. 7: Systems of 1st Order Linear Equations (3 days)
Ch. 6: The Laplace Transform (5 days)
Ch. 10: Partial Diff. Equations and Fourier series (8 days)
INSTRUCTOR: Hans Koch, Office Hours TTh 3:00-4:30, and by appointment
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| 93 -100 A
GRADING: Letter grades (A,A-,B+,...,D-,F) will be given for | 89 - 92 A-
------- each exam, but number grades (100,99,..,2,1,0) will | 85 - 88 B+
be kept for averaging. The course grade is obtained | 81 - 84 B
by averaging the number grades of the 4 exams and of | 77 - 80 B-
the homework. Each student may replace the grade of | 73 - 76 C+
ONE exam by the grade of one of the following exams. | 69 - 72 C
| 65 - 68 C-
HOMEWORK will be assigned on Mondays and collected one week | 61 - 64 D+
-------- later in class. Each assignment is graded on a scale | 57 - 60 D
from 0 to 10. The sum of the ten highest HW scores | 53 - 56 D-
contributes 6% to the class grade. | 0 - 52 F
EXAMS: Three 45 minute in-class (Exams 1,2,3) | Exam 1 (Mo Sep 20) 22%
----- and a 120 minute Final (Exam 4, 9-11 am) | Exam 2 (We Oct 13) 22%
Exams 2-4 cover approx 80% new and 20% | Exam 3 (Mo Nov 8) 22%
old material. | Exam 4 (Th Dec 9) 28%
No make-up exams will be given. | Homework 6%
MORE INFO: See the class web page http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/koch/M427K/
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