MATH 246H -- Honors Differential Equations

MATLAB Information

• You are required to form teams of 2 or 3 members. No other collaboration is permitted. Teams may vary during the semester; that is, if you wish to change the composition of any team, you may do so at any time. Each team is allowed to turn in one version of each project. The names of every team member should be on each project. Each team member is responsible for all the work turned in by the team. This means that while you may have had prime responsiblity for part of the project, you should be aware of how others on the team approached the rest of the project.

• Assignments are due at the beginning of the lecture period. You should submit your work by creating an "M" file, using individual cells in the "M" file for each problem, and putting the problem number at the beginning of the cell as a comment. You can split up a multi-part problem into multiple cells, as long as they label each cell. Then you should use the "publish to html" option to create a nice looking output and then print the html file, which can be displayed by matlab or opened with a web browser. Your answers should be presented in the order that the problems are assigned. If you use more than one sheet of paper, they should be stapled together. The top of the first page should include all of the team members names as well as the due date of the assignment.

• The Math OWL Lab in room 0203 in the Math building is open Mon-Fri, 8AM-4PM. The official list of WAM and other OWL locations and hours is maintained by OIT. It is located at Campus Computer Labs. You can find tips on how to run MatLab from off campus at http://www.math.umd.edu/~jow/misc/matlab.html

Matlab Assignments

1. Due Sep 13 : Read Hunt, Lipsman, Osborn, and Rosenberg (HLOR) Chapters 1-4;
   Do Problem Set A (pages 49-52) --- 5, 7ab, 10,13.
   
   
2. Due Sep 27 : Read HLOR Chapters 5 and 6;
   Do Problem Set B (pages 85-96) --- 1, 7, 14bc, 15.
   
   
3. Due Oct 11 : Read HLOR Chapters 8, 9, and 10;
   Do Problem Set C (pages 141-148) --- 4, 7, 10ab, 13.
   
   
4. Due Nov 1 : Read HLOR Chapter 11;
   Do Problem Set D (pages 167-180) --- 3, 5, 7, 15.
   
   
5. Due Nov 15 : Read HLOR Chapter 13;
   Do Problem Set E (pages 197-210) --- 12, 13a, 14a, 17.
   
   
6. Due Dec 6 : Read HLOR Chapters 14 and 15;
   Do Problem Set F (pages 235-252) --- 2, 3, 5, 7.
   

Richard A. Wentworth