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Sonmez Sahutoglu will coordinate Math 216 in the fall semester of 2008, and the winter semester of 2009.
Classes meet in Dennison 296 Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Tuesday or Thursday Labs/Recitations
meet in different places depending on the week. Check your Section information. Some weeks you meet in the Labs, other weeks you meet in recitation classes. Please check Wolverine Access for the assigned classroom for your section.
Lab/Recitation rooms: Section 010, Section 020, Section 030, Section 040, Section 050, Section 060
**Textbook update: The 3rd edtion may now be used instead of the 4th edition- the Homework Problems are the same**
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Course
Description |
Math 216 is a 4 credit course on differential equations
with supplementary topics in complex numbers and matrix algebra. It is intended
for engineers and other scientists who apply these techniques in their work.
Most of the material will be presented in a manner consistent with the presentations
in the text. Students are expected to read and study the examples and related
material in the text and to write up and submit the assigned problems sets
and lab projects. (The lab projects involve programming in Matlab and Maple. The use of Maple 10 is recommended for this course.) Similar problems will be used as examples during the lectures
as preparation for the exams. This course also offers an Instant Feedback web-based homework component.
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| Prerequisites |
Math 116,
156 or 186 |
| Textbook |
Differential Equations: Computing
and Modeling, Fourth Edition (3rd edition OK) by C.
Henry Edwards and David E. Penney,
2008, Pearson Education. This textbook has an associated website with many excellent features, including online explore-as-you-go labs, and much more. |
Subsequent
Courses |
Math 404 (Intermediate
Differential Equations) covers further material on differential equations.
Math 217 (Linear Algebra) and Math 417 (Matrix
Algebra I) cover further material on linear algebra. Math 371 (Numerical Methods, also listed as Engin.
303) and Math 471 (Intro.
To Numerical Methods) cover additional material on numerical methods.
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Acknowledgements: The materials offered on this website have been developed by many individuals over a period of several years. The text supplements and the lab manuals were originally written by Charles Doering and Deborah Alterman under support from a FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) grant from the U. S. Department of Education. Significant modifications to these materials were made by Arthur Wasserman partly due to valuable suggestions by Chris Heath, Jesse Otero, and Ralf Wittenberg. As part of a VIGRE (Vertically Integrated Grants for Research and Education) project funded by the National Science Foundation, Dan Rogalski gathered feedback from lab instructors and together with Jesse Otero made suggestions for further changes to the lab manuals. Peter Miller updated the text supplements and lab manuals for posting on this website, and the updated labs were tested by Ran Tao and Jon Sockolosky. This website is managed using a script written by Jason Howald. Recent extensions to the web-based homework were made by Richard White in collaboration with Gavin LaRose and Peter Miller with the help of funding from CRLT and LS&A.
Lab 1 uses dfield7.m and Lab 5 uses pplane7.m, both Matlab programs written by John Polking of Rice University. Thank you to Professor Polking for making these files freely available for educational use. See Polking's online Java-based version, available anytime and anywhere.
Thank you also to Mark Gockenbach of Michigan Tech for letting us refer on this website to his Matlab tutorial.
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