Textbook HW: Math 256 Differential Equations
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Text: Differential Equations, 4th edition, Blanchard, Devaney,
Hall Textbook homework will not be collected. Make sure you know how to do all these problems, and ask questions in class about anything that does not make sense. All of this material is fair game for the midterm and final exam. Section 1.1: Modeling via differential equations Section 1.2: Separation of variables (analytic technique) Section 1.3: Slope fields (qualitative technique) Section 1.4: Euler's method (numerical technique) Sections 1.5: Existence and uniqueness of solutions Section 1.6: Equilibria and the phase line Section 1.7: Bifurcations Sections 1.8: First order linear differential equations (undetermined coefficients method) Section 1.9: First order linear differential equations (integrating factor method) Sections 2.1: Modeling via systems Section 2.2: Geometry of first order systems Section 2.3: The damped harmonic oscillator Section 2.4: Analytic methods for special systems Section 2.7: The SIR model of an epidemic Section 3.1: Properties of linear systems and matrix notation Section 3.2: Straight-line solutions to linear systems, eigenvectors,
eigenvalues Sections 3.3: Phase planes and solutions for linear systems with real
eigenvalues Section 3.4: Phase planes and solutions for linear systems with nonreal eigenvalues Section 3.5: Special cases: repeated and zero eigenvalues Section 3.6: Second-Order Linear Equations Section 3.7: The Trace-Determinant Plane |