| Course: | Math 198: Methods of Ordinary Differential Equations, Sections 02 and 06, Spring 2015 | ||||||
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| Instructor: | Matthew Moore | ||||||
| Office: | SC 1525 | ||||||
| Office Hours: |
T 4:00pm – 6:00pm, R 11:00am – 1:00pm, and by appointment | ||||||
| E-Mail: | matthew.moore@vanderbilt.edu | ||||||
| Website: | https://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~moorm10/diffeq/ | ||||||
| Lecture Hours and Venue: |
Section 02: 1:10pm – 2:25pm in SC 1313;
Section 06: TR 2:35pm – 3:50pm in SC 1308 |
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| Textbook: | Nagle; Saff; Snider. Fundamentals of Differential Equations. 8th Ed. Addison-Wesley (2012). | ||||||
| Homework: | Homework is due every week on Tuesday. The homework will consist of problems from the book as well as "Additional Problems" both of which will be available on the course website. Homework will be graded based on the correctness as well the clarity of the solution. No late homework will be accepted. Your lowest two homework scores will be dropped. | ||||||
| Quizzes: | There will be a quiz every Thursday. Your lowest two quiz scores will be dropped. | ||||||
| Exams: | There will be an exam on Thursday, February 5th and on Thursday, March 12th. Exams will consist of an in-class portion as well as a take-home portion, which will be due the following Tuesday. The final exam is on Wednesday, April 22nd, 9:00am – 11:00am (section 02) and Thursday, April 30th, 9:00am – 11:00am (section 06). | ||||||
| Course Grading: |
Grades will be determined according to the following breakdown:
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