Math 246 Homework, Spring 2018
(2 January version)
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
The exercises are found under the "Class Notes and Exercises" link
of the Math 246 homepage.
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Assignments on Topics Covered on the First Exam
(Thursday, 15 February)
- Quiz on Tuesday, 30 January
(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 Tuesday, 6 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 Tuesday, 13 Febraury
(Applications and Numerical Methods)
Chapter I.6: 2, 4, 7, 12, 14, 15.
Chapter I.7: 3, 9, 10, 14, 18, 19.
- Exam on Thursday, 15 February
(Exact Forms and Integrating Factors)
Chapter I.8: 7, 9, 11, 13.
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Assignments on Topics Covered on the Second Exam
(Thursday, 15 March)
- Quiz on Thursday, 22 February
(General Homogeneous)
Chapter II.1: 1, 3, 4, 14.
Chapter II.2: 3, 4, 6.
Chapter II.3: 1, 3, 4.
- Quiz on Thursday, 1 March
(Constant Coefficient Homogeneous)
Chapter II.2: 14, 15, 18.
Chapter II.4: 1, 5, 7, 21, 22.
- Quiz on Thursday, 8 March
(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.
- Exam on Thursday, 19 October
(Mechanical Vibrations and Variable Coefficient Nonhomogeneous)
Chapter II.8: 1, 17, 23, 26.
Chapter II.7: 5, 6, 13, 21.
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Assignments on Topics Covered on the Third Exam
(Tuesday, 24 April)
- Quiz on Thursday, 29 March
(Laplace Transform)
Chapter II.9: 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20.
- Quiz on Thursday, 5 April
(Laplace Transform)
Chapter II.9: 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20.
- Quiz on Thursday, 12 April
(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 Thursday, 19 April
(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, 24 April
(Eigen Methods)
Chapter III.5: 2, 3, 7, 14, 16, 18, 22, 32, 33, 35, 36.
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Assignments on Additional Topics Covered on the Final Exam
(Saturday, 12 May)
- Quiz on Tuesday, 30 April
(Linear Planar Systems)
Chapter III.6: 2, 5, 7, 17, 18, 20.
- Quiz on Thursday, 7 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 Wednesday, 12 May
(Population Dynamics)
Chapter III.9: 2, 5, 6, 9.
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