EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics
Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential
Course code: MATH241 Course name:
Equations
Course level: Undergraduate Akademic year: 2022 – 2023 Semester: Spring
Course
(4,2) 4 Duration of the course: One semester
credit:
Prerequisities: Math 151 Corequisities: ----- ECTS Value: 6
Calculus I

Web link: lms.emu.edu.tr e – mail Office no. Tel no.

Instructors: (1,2) Prof.Dr. Derviş Subaşı dervis.subasi@emu.edu.tr

AS 140 11 38
(3, 4) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arif Akkeles arif.akkeles@emu.edu.tr
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Teaching (1.) Res. Asst. Hafiz Muhammad Fahad

Assistants: (2.) Res. Asst. Mahir Mohammad Ata Almatarneh
(3.) Res. Asst. Javad Asadzade
(4.) Res. Asst. Javad Asadzade

Text Book: Stephen W. Goode & Scott A. Annin, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra, (3rd
edition), Prentice Hall, 2007.

Indicative
Steven J. Leon, Linear Algebra with Application, Pearson Education, 2006. S. Alpay & A.
Basic
Reading List Erkip, Ordinary Differential Equations, METU, 1992.

Extended H. Anton & C. Rorres, Elementary Linear Algebra, Wiley, 1994.

Reading List
Shepley L. Ross, Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations, Wiley, 1989.

Catalogue Systems of linear equations, elementary row operations, Echelon form, Gaussian
description: elimination method; Matrices; Determinants, Adjoint and Inverse matrices, Cramer’s rule;
Vector spaces, linear independence, Bases and Dimension, Linear transformations.
Eigenvalue problems. Diagonalization. First-order differential equations, Separable
differential equations, change of variables, Exact differential equations; Second-order
differential equations, the method of undetermined coefficients, the Variation of
parameters; General results of First-order linear systems, homogeneous constant
coefficient differential equations, variations of parameters for linear systems; Laplace
transform method.

There are two objectives of this course: the first, to understand the basic concepts and
Aim and
skills of linear algebra, which are required for simple applications in science and
Objectives Engineering problems, and the second, to learn some elementary methods for solving the
first and second-order differential equations and apply linear algebra to solve first-order
systems of linear differential equations.
On successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:
General
Learning  Understand the applications of Matrices
Outcomes:  Gain basic skills to solve systems of linear equations
 Understand the concepts of vector space, subspace, linear independence
 Solve eigenvalue/eigenvector problems
 Solve the first and the second-order linear differential equations
 Understand the use of Laplace transforms in solving differential equations
 Solve systems of first-order linear differential equations
 Realize how to use matrices and differential equations in solving engineering problems
Teaching
Lectures and tutorials.
methods:

1
Relations This course is based on Calculus I and plays an important role in courses which need
with the concepts and skills in linear algebra and differential equations for solutions of certain
other engineering problems. Meanwhile, taking Calculus II has usually an advantage in
courses: understanding how to solve certain types of differential equations.

Attendance: Attendance to the lectures is compulsory. Any student whose attendance is less than 50%
will get NG grade.

 Homework+participation: 5%

Method of  Quiz 1 : 7.5%

Assesment  Midterm Exam 1 : 40%

 Quiz 2 : 7.5%
 Final Exam : 40%

Method of A : 85 – 100; A– : 80 – 84; Excellent performance

assessment:
B+ : 75 – 79; B : 70 – 74 ; B– : 66 – 69; Performance over expectations

C+ : 63 – 65; C : 59 – 62; Satisfactory performance

C– : 56 – 58; D+ : 53 – 55; D : 50 – 52; Conditional satisfactory performance

D– : 35 – 49; F : 00 – 34; Unsatisfactory performance

NG : May be given the students having poor attendance and / or missing 2 exams

Important note: The grading intervals given above may be changed depending on the class
average and distribution.

Chapter2 Matrices and Systems of Linear Equations

Course
content: 2.1 Matrices: Definitions and Notations
Week 1.
2.2 Matrix Algebra
2.3 Terminology for Systems of Linear Equations
2.4 Elementary Row Operations and Row-Echelon Matrices
2.5 Gaussian and Gauss-Jordan Elimination Methods
Week 2. 2.6 The Inverse of a Square Matrix
Chapter3 Determinants
3.1 The Definition of a Determinant
3.2 Properties of Determinants
Week 3. 3.3 Cofactor Expansions, Evaluating Determinants using Elementary
Row Operations
Adjoint Method for computing A-1 and Cramer’s Rule
Chapter4 Vector Spaces
Week 4. 4.1 Vectors in Rn
4.2 Definition of a Vector Space
4.3 Subspaces
4.5 Dependence and Linear Independence
4.6 Bases and Dimension
Week 5. 4.8 Row Space and Column Space
4.9 The Rank-Nullity Theorem

Quiz 1: 10-14 April 2023

Chapter5 Linear Transformations

5.1 Definition of Linear Transformation
Week 6. 5.6 The Eigenvalue/Eigenvector Problem
5.7 General results for Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
5.8 Diagonalization
Chapter1 First-Order Differential Equations
Week 7. 1.2 Basic Ideas and Terminology
1.4 Separable differential equations

Week 8. & 9. Midterm Examination 1 (24.04.2023 – 08.06.2023)

2
 1.8 Homogeneous Differential Equations
1.6 First-order Linear differential equations
Week 10. 1.8 Bernoulli Equation
1.9 Exact Differential Equations
Chapter6 Linear Differential Equations
6.1 General theory for linear differential equations
Week 11. 6.2 Constant-Coefficient Homogeneous Linear differential equations
6.3 The Method of Undetermined Coefficients
6.7 The Variation of Parameters Method
6.8 A Differential Equation with Non-Constant Coefficients; The Cauchy-
Week 12. Euler Equation
6.9 Reduction of the Order

Quiz 2: 5-9 June 2023

Chapter8 The Laplace Transformation

8.1 The Definition of The Laplace Transform, Properties of the Laplace
Transform
Week 13. 8.2 The Inverse Transform
8.4 Laplace Transform solution of linear differential equations with
constant coefficients

Week 14-15 Final Examinations Period (12.06.2023 – 26.06.2023)

Important  No make – up will be given for quizzes.

Notes:
 Students missing an examination should provide a valid excuse within three days
following the examination they missed.
 All make – up examinations will be given at the end of the semester after final
examination period at the same time and same duration. Only one make-up will be
given at the end of the semester. Make-up exam and the Re-Sit exam will cover all
topics of the course.

(No extra time for each make – up)

 Attendance is compulsory. Any student whose attendance is less than 70% or

misses at least two examinations without providing valid excuse and does not take
make up exam, will be given ‘NG’ grade.

 Any student whose grade is NG cannot apply to resit examination.

 The weight of the resit examination equals the total weight of the two midterm and
final exams.

Academic Copying from others or providing answers or information (written or oral) to others is
Honesty:
cheating. Copying from another student’s paper or from another text without written
acknowledgement is plagiarism. According to University’s bylaws, cheating and plagiarism
are serious offences resulting in a failure from exam or project and disciplinary action
(which includes an official warning and / or suspension from the university for up to one
semester).

Plagiarism This is intentionally failing to give credit to sources used in writing regardless of whether
they are published or unpublished. Plagiarism (which also includes any kind of cheating in
exams) is a disciplinary offence and will be dealt with accordingly.)