Math 246 Homework, Fall 2020

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 a quiz or an exam. 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 (Thursday, 24 September)

• Quiz on Thursday, 3 September (Classification, Linear)
  Chapter 0: 1, 3, 4, 11.
  Chapter 1: 1, 5, 8, 9.
  Chapter 2: 4, 9, 10, 13.
  Chapter 3: 4, 11, 9, 20.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 10 September (Separable, Graphical Methods)
  Chapter 4: 4, 8, 9, 12.
  Chapter 5: 2, 3, 6, 16.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 17 September (Applications, Motion)
  Chapter 6: 2, 4, 14, 15.
  Chapter 6: 12, 13.
  

• Exam on Thursday, 24 September (Numerical Methods, Exact Forms and Integrating Factors)
  Chapter 7: 3, 9, 10, 14, 18, 19.
  Chapter 9: 7, 9, 11, 13.
  

Assignments on Topics Covered on the Second Exam (Thursday, 22 October)

• Quiz on Thursday, 1 October (General and Constant Coefficient Homogeneous)
  Chapter 1: 1, 3, 4, 14.
  Chapter 3: 1, 3, 4.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 8 October (General and Constant Coefficient Nonhomogeneous)
  Chapter 2: 3, 4, 6, 14, 15, 18.
  Chapter 4: 1, 5, 7, 21, 22.
  Chapter 5: 2, 4, 10, 12.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 15 October (Constant Coefficient Nonhomogeneous)
  Chapter 6: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 15, 21, 22, 27.
  

• Exam on Thursday, 22 October (Mechanical Vibrations and Variable Coefficient Nonhomogeneous)
  Chapter 8: 1, 17, 23, 26.
  Chapter 7: 5, 6, 13, 21.
  

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Assignments on Topics Covered on the Third Exam (Thursday, 19 November)

• Quiz on Thursday, 29 October (Laplace Transform)
  Chapter 9: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 5 November (Laplace Transform)
  Chapter 9: 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 12 November (Linear First-Order Systems, Matrices and Vectors)
  Chapter 1: 3, 5, 11, 17.
  Chapter 3: 5, 6, 7, 8.
  Chapter 2: 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19.
  

• Exam on Thursday, 19 November (Matrix Exponentials, Eigen Methods)
  Chapter 4: 10, 11, 12, 17, 20, 22.
  Chapter 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 (Wednesday, 11 December)

• Quiz on Thursday, 3 December (Linear Planar Systems, Integral Methods for Autonomous Planar Systems)
  Chapter 7: 2, 5, 7, 17, 18, 20.
  Chapter 8: 9, 10, 15, 16, 20, 21.
  

• Quiz on Thursday, 10 December (Nonintegral Methods for Autonomous Planar Systems)
  Chapter 9: 3, 9, 10, 12, 14, 17.
  

• Final Exam on Wednesday, 12 May (Population Dynamics)
  Chapter 10: 2, 5, 6, 9.
  

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