Course Description
First- and second-order ordinary differential equations, including physical and biological applications, numerical solutions, and mathematical modeling.
Athena Title
Elem Differential Equations
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in MATH 2700E
Prerequisite
MATH 2260 or MATH 2260E or MATH 2310H or MATH 2410 or MATH 2410H
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will understand the fundamental ideas of differential equations and systems of differential equations. Students will learn how to model physical and biological processes with differential equations. Students will learn how to find general solutions explicitly or implicitly to simple classes of differential equations and to interpret these solutions in reference to the processes they model. Students will learn how to get qualitative (graphical) information and approximate solutions for important classes of differential equations whose general solutions cannot be found explicitly.
Topical Outline
First-order differential equations First-order systems Linear systems Forcing and resonance Laplace transforms
General Education Core
CORE III: Quantitative ReasoningSyllabus