Math 246 Homework, Spring 2017

Below are the weekly homework assignments. These will not be collected. However the material from the homework will appear on the quizzes and exams. The dates given are when the material is first scheduled to be tested on either an exam or a quiz. Quiz material should be covered during the lectures and discussion sections just before the quiz. You are responsible for the material even if the University closes on the day of the discussion section. It is a good idea to look over all material before it is covered in the lectures.

These assignments are are subject to changes announced on this webpage.

Homework Assignments

• Assignments on Topics Covered on the First Exam
• Assignments on Topics Covered on the Second Exam
• Assignments on Topics Covered on the Third Exam
• Assignments on Additional Topics Covered on the Final Exam

Assignments on Topics Covered on the First Exam (Tuesday, 21 February)

• Quiz on Thursday, 2 February (Classification and Linear)
  Chapter   0: 1, 3, 4, 11.
  Chapter I.1: 1, 5, 8, 9.
  Chapter I.2: 4, 9, 10, 13.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 9 February (Separable and Graphical Methods)
  Chapter I.3: 4, 11, 9, 20.
  Chapter I.4: 4, 8, 9, 12.
  Chapter I.5: 2, 3, 6, 16.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 16 February (Applications and Numerical Methods)
  Chapter I.6: 2, 4, 7, 12, 14, 15.
  Chapter I.7: 3, 9, 10, 14, 18, 19.
  

• Exam on Tuesday, 21 February (Exact Forms and Integrating Factors)
  Chapter I.8: 7, 9, 11, 13.
  

Assignments on Topics Covered on the Second Exam (Tuesday, 28 March)

• Quiz on Thursday, 2 March (General Homogeneous)
  Chapter II.1: 1, 3, 4, 14.
  Chapter II.2: 3, 4, 6, 14, 15, 18.
  Chapter II.3: 1, 3, 4.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 9 March (Constant Coefficient Homogeneous)
  Chapter II.4: 1, 5, 7, 21, 22.
  Chapter II.5: 2, 4, 10, 12.
  Chapter II.6: 1, 6, 7, 8.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 16 March (Constant Coefficient Nonhomogeneous with Characteristic Forcing)
  Chapter II.6: 3, 4, 5, 13, 15.
  

• Exam on Tuesday, 28 March (Nonhomogeneous with Noncharacteristic Forcing)
  Chapter II.6: 21, 22, 27.
  Chapter II.7: 5, 6, 13, 21.
  

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Assignments on Topics Covered on the Third Exam (Tuesday, 25 April)

• Quiz on Thursday, 6 April (Mechanical Vibrations and Laplace Transform)
  Chapter II.8: 1, 17, 23, 26.
  Chapter II.9: 1, 2, 5.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 13 April (Laplace Transform, First-Order Systems)
  Chapter II.9: 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20.
  Chapter III.1: 3, 5, 11, 17.
  Chapter III.2: 1, 2, 3, 7.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 20 April (Matrices and Vectors, General Linear Systems)
  Chapter III.3: 5, 6, 7, 8.
  Chapter III.2: 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19.
  

• Exam on Tuesday, 25 April (Matrix Exponentials)
  Chapter III.4: 10, 11, 12, 17, 20, 22.
  

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Assignments on Additional Topics Covered on the Final Exam (Saturday, 13 May)

• Quiz on Thursday, 4 May (Eigen Methods and Linear Planar Systems)
  Chapter III.5: 2, 3, 7, 14, 16, 18, 22, 32, 33, 35, 36.
  Chapter III.6: 2, 5, 7, 17, 18, 20.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 11 May (Autonomous Planar Systems)
  Chapter III.7: 9, 10, 15, 16, 20, 21.
  Chapter III.8: 3, 9, 10, 12, 14, 17.
  

• Final Exam on Saturday, 13 May (Population Dynamics)
  Chapter III.9: 2, 5, 6, 9.
  

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