INFORMATION for MATH 315
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
FALL 2006 SECTION 1
Dr. Alan Genz

Class Information

Time and Place
Date: 15 weeks, August 21 - December 11, 2006
Time: 10:10-11:00 MWF; Site: Todd 420
Instructor
Name: Alan Genz; Email: alangenz AT wsu DOT edu
Office: Neill 232; Office hours: 11:10-12:00 MWF, or by appointment.
Teaching Assistant
Name: Yannan Sun; Email: ysun AT math DOT wsu DOT edu
Office: Neill 314; Office hours: Tuesday 12-3PM
Current Text
Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, Eighth Edition,
by W.E. Boyce and R.C. Diprima
Text Coverage
Chapters 1-7. For details, see the course Schedule.
Grades
The course grades will be based on weekly assignments 25%, three midterm examinations 45%, and a comprehensive final examination 30%. The lowest homework assignment score will be dropped. Note the following examinations information.
Homework will be assigned every day and will usually be due on Mondays (see Schedule for details). Late work is NOT accepted. Make sure that you start working on the homework as soon as possible. If you have difficulties, you should contact the instructor or teaching assistant. The textbook contains brief, final answers to most of the problems. In order to get credit for the assigned homework problems, detailed solutions, showing intermediate steps, must be provided by the student. There is a student solutions manual for the textbook that is in the reserve section of Owen Science and Engineering Library. This manual contains detailed solutions to selected (but not assigned) textbook problems. All class work that you submit for grading should have been completed by you. Reduced credit will be given if you submit assigned work for grading and there is strong evidence that you copied another student's work.

Reasonable accommodations are available for students who have a documented disability. Please notify the instructor during the first week of class of any accommodations needed for the course. Late notification may cause the requested accommodations to be unavailable. All accommodations must be approved through the Disablity Resource Center (DRC) in Administration Annex 205 (335-3417).

There is a Website for the course materials. All students in the class are encouraged to use the course information available at http://www.math.wsu.edu/faculty/genz/de.html. An archive of Web resources for learning about ordinary differential equations can be found at "http://archives.math.utk.edu/topics/ordinaryDiffEq.html".