Math 246 Homework, Fall 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, 19 September)

• Quiz on Thursday, 31 August (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, 7 September (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, 14 September (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, 19 September (Exact Forms and Integrating Factors)
  Chapter I.8: 7, 9, 11, 13.
  

Assignments on Topics Covered on the Second Exam (Thursday, 19 October)

• Quiz on Tuesday, 26 September (General Homogeneous)
  Chapter II.1: 1, 3, 4, 14.
  Chapter II.2: 3, 4, 6.
  Chapter II.3: 1, 3, 4.
  

• Quiz on Tuesday, 3 October (Constant Coefficient Homogeneous)
  Chapter II.2: 14, 15, 18.
  Chapter II.4: 1, 5, 7, 21, 22.
  

• Quiz on Tuesday, 10 October (General and Constant Coefficient Nonhomogeneous)
  Chapter II.5: 2, 4, 10, 12.
  Chapter II.6: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 15, 21, 22, 27.
  

• Quiz on Tuesday, 17 October (Variable Coefficient Nonhomogeneous and Mechanical Vibrations)
  Chapter II.7: 5, 6, 13, 21.
  Chapter II.8: 1, 17, 23, 26.
  

• Exam on Thursday, 19 October (Catch Up Topics)
  

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Assignments on Topics Covered on the Third Exam (Tuesday, 21 November)

• Quiz on Tuesday, 31 October (Laplace Transform)
  Chapter II.9: 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20.
  

• Quiz on Tuesday, 7 November (First-Order Systems, Matrices and Vectors)
  Chapter III.1: 3, 5, 11, 17.
  Chapter III.2: 1, 2, 3, 7.
  Chapter III.3: 5, 6, 7, 8.
  

• Quiz on Tuesday, 14 November (Linear Systems, Matrix Exponentials)
  Chapter III.2: 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19.
  Chapter III.4: 10, 11, 12, 17, 20, 22.
  

• Exam on Tuesday, 21 November (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.
  

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Assignments on Additional Topics Covered on the Final Exam (Wednesday, 13 December)

• Quiz on Thursday, 30 November (Autonomous Planar Systems)
  Chapter III.7: 9, 10, 15, 16, 20, 21.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 7 December (Autonomous Planar Systems)
  Chapter III.8: 3, 9, 10, 12, 14, 17.
  

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

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