Math 246/Fall 2018/Jeffrey Adams/Sections 01**

Course: Math 246: Differential Equations

Instructor: Professor Jeffrey Adams
Time: MWF 9-9:50
Location: Armory 0126
Office Hours: Monday 12-1, Wednesday 11-12 (for finals week see the miscellaneous page)
Office: Math 2310
Phone: (301) 405-5493

The Final is Wednesday December 12, 1:30-3:30 PM. More information.

Course Material
The primary textbook for this course is entirely on-line. The Course Material page contains: the on-line textbook, homework assignments, homework solutions, and supplementary material. Each section of the textbook comes with supplementary material, both internal and external links. These include other resources, videos, etc.

We recommend getting a secondary textbook to refer to in addition to the online notes. The book by Boyce and DiPrima covers a lot of the same material. The new edition is very expensive, but you should be able to find older editions, which are fine, fairly cheaply.

Matlab Text:
We use Matlab in this course. In addition to the primary online text, the Matlab textbook is required: Differential Equations with MATLAB, Third Edition, Brian R. Hunt, Ronald L. Lipsman, John E. Osborn, and Jonathan M. Rosenberg J. Wiley and Sons, New York, 2012. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-1183-7680-5 Note: the second edition is out of date.

Texts and other resources
David Levermore's page for this class has links to a number of other resources.

The Syllabus
Weekly schedule of lectures and exams

Homework
It is very important to do as many of the homework assignments as possible. Complete solutions to the homework are provided. Although the homework isn't graded, each week there will be a quiz in Discussion section based directly on that week's homework.

Quiz make-up policy You can drop your 2 lowest quizzes. If you have an excused absence, for example for a religious holiday, you can either use one of your drops, or subsitute 1/10 of the grade on the next test for the missing quiz. See me or contact your TA to arrange this.

Discussion Sections

Corry Bedwell's office hours:
Tu 10-11am in MTH 2121
Tu 1-2pm in MTH 3115
W 2-3pm in MTH 0301
cbedwell@math.umd.edu

Vinaykumar Yennam's office hours:
Th 10-11am in Math 0210
Fri 10-11am in Math 0210
vinaykumar.yennam@gmail.com

Matlab projects
There will be 6 Matlab projects in the course of the semester.

Grading

Miscellaneous files
Practice exams, review sheets...

Additional Help
There will be two one-hour Guided Study Sessions each week, led by Joseph Adheep adheepjoseph123@gmail.com. These will be 4-5 PM on Tuesday and Thursday, in Math 0409. Here is the schedule for the rest of the semester:

David Levermore is doing a review session Monday 7-9 PM in TYD 0130 (the room is confirmed).

Keystone Tutoring for Math 246, a service run by the Engineering Department, is a drop-in tutoring service, open to all Math 246 students.
Note: the Keysone hours have changed from the beginning of the semester. Here is the updated schedule:

Location: Keystone Center, JMP 1116