Daily Log and Materials

Daily topics and PDFs (handouts and worksheets) will appear here as they occur. You do not have to turn-in any handout or worksheet!

• Monday 12 January Definitions and terminology
  (Section 1.1)
• Wednesday 14 January Initial value problems
  (Section 1.2)
• Friday 16 January Differential equations as mathematical models
  (Section 1.3)
• Wednesday 21 January Quiz 1, Solution curves
  (Section 2.1.1)
  WolframAlpha can plot direction fields
• Friday 5 September Solution curves cont.
  (Section 2.1.2)
• Monday 26 January Separable DE
  (Section 2.2)
  worksheet (integrals)
• Wednesday 28 September Linear first order DE
  (Section 2.3)
• Friday 30 January Exact equations
  (Section 2.4)
  worksheet
• Monday 2 February Euler's method
  (Section 2.6)
• Wednesday 4 February Quiz 2
• Friday 6 February Linear models
  (Section 3.1)
• Monday 9 February Non-linear models
  (Section 3.2)
  Code for Problem 3.2.4 (.py)
  and Matlab/Octave version
• Wednesday 11 February Two gravity models
  (Section 3.2)
• Friday 13 February Higher order linear DE
  (Section 4.1)
• Monday 16 February Reduction of order
  (Section 4.2)
• Wednesday 18 February Quiz 3
• Friday 3 February Homogeneous linear DE with constant coefficients
  (Section 4.3)
  A good video on Euler's formula by 3Blue1Brown
• Monday 23 February Higher order DEs
  (Section 4.3)
  worksheet
• Wednesday 25 February Non-homogenous linear DEs. Undetermined coefficients
  (Section 4.4)
• Friday 27 February Non-homogenous linear DEs. Variation of parameters
  (Section 4.6)
• Monday 2 March Non-homogenous linear DEs
  (Section 4.4, 4.6)
  worksheet
• Wednesday 4 March Midterm exam review
  review guide
• Friday 6 March Midterm exam
• Monday 16 March Higher order linear models
  (Section 5.1.1)
  3Blue1Brown on mass/spring problems. Do not focus on the Laplace transform, we will discuss it later in the course. Instead focus on visualisation.
• Wednesday 18 March Higher order linear models
  (Section 5.1)
• Friday 20 March Higher order linear models
  (Section 5.1)
• Monday 23 March Higher order non-linear models
  (Section 5.3)
  Codes from slides
• Wednesday 25 March Quiz 4, Laplace transform
  (Section 7.1)
  3Blue1Brown on Laplace transform
• Friday 27 March Laplace transform
  (Section 7.1)
• Monday 30 March Inverse Laplace transform
  (Section 7.2)
• Wednesday 1 April Laplace transform of derivatives
  (Section 7.2)
• Friday 3 April Operational properties of Laplace transform
  (Section 7.3)