Yeditepe University

Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics

Syllabus for Math 241 - Differential Equations
(Spring 2022)

Instructor Section(s) e-mail Office hours

Melike Işim Efe 1 & 2 melike.efe@yeditepe.edu.tr Mon. 13:00-14:00 (B606)
Beste Madran 3 & 4 beste.madran@yeditepe.edu.tr Tue. 16:00-17:00 (online)
Ender Abadoğlu 5 & 6 eabadoglu@yeditepe.edu.tr Mon. 14:00-15:00 (B603)
Engin Haliloğlu 7 & 8 engin.haliloglu@yeditepe.edu.tr Mon., Wed. 13:00-14:00 (B609)
Mustafa Polat 9 mpolat@yeditepe.edu.tr Wed. 15:00-16:00 (B614)
Textbook: W. Boyce and R. DiPrima, Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, 10th Ed., Wiley.
Attendance: Students are expected to attend all class meetings and problem solving hours and are responsible for all of the
material covered in class and in the problem solving hours. Attendance is required. Please be advised that failure to attend 80%
of lectures even because of officially confirmed excuses will normally result in the subject with the grade FA. Those who miss
greater than or equal to 13 hours of lectures will get FA.
Homework and Quizzes: There will be four online homeworks which are assigned via WebWork on Monday and submitted
up to Friday in each of the homework weeks. Late submissions will not be accepted for any reason.
Exams: There will be a midterm and a final exam.
Homeworks: 5th , 9th , 11th and 14th weeks
Midterm Exam: March 30, 2022, Wednesday, 16:00
Final Exam: to be announced
Course Grading: to be announced
20% Homeworks ( 5% each )
29% Midterm Exam
51% Final Exam
Course Plan:
Week Subject Book section
Introduction (Basic definitions, Classification of DE’s) 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
1
Separable Equations, Homogeneous Equations 2.2
1st order linear DE’s (Method of integrating factors) 2.1
2
Bernoulli Equations, Modeling with first order equations 2.4, 2.3
Discontinuous Coefficients, Riccati Equations 2.4, 2.9
3
Clairaut Equations, Substitution methods
Exact Equations and integrating factors 2.6
4
Existence-Uniqueness Theorem for 1st order ODE’s 2.8
Existence-Uniqueness Theorem for higher order ODE’s, Wronskian 3.2
5 Fundamental set of solutions, Linear independence, Abel’s Theorem 3.2
2nd order linear homogeneous eq. with const. coefficients 3.1
Complex roots of the characteristic equation 3.3
6 Repeated roots of the characteristic equation, 3.4
Method of Undetermined Coefficients 3.5
7 MIDTERM EXAM
8 Reduction of order, Variation of Parameters, Cauchy-Euler Equations 3.4, 3.6
Laplace Transform (definition, solution of IVP’s) 6.1, 6.2
9
Step Functions 6.3
DE’s with discontinuous forcing functions 6.4
10
Impulse Functions, The Convolution Integral 6.5, 6.6
11 Series Solutions Near an Ordinary Point 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
12 Series Solutions Near a Regular Singular Point 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations 7.3
13 Basic Theory of Systems of First Order Linear Equations 7.4
Homogeneous Linear Systems with Constant Coefficients 7.5
Complex Eigenvalues, Fundamental Matrices 7.6, 7.7
14
Repeated Eigenvalues 7.8

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