Welcome to the homepage of in-person Math F302 Differential Equations for Fall 2023.
Instructor
Ed Bueler is in the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Canvas Website
Log in to canvas.alaska.edu/courses/16214 for Homework and Exam solutions, to see your grades, and recorded lectures.
Getting Started
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Attend lectures: MWF 10:30-11:30am, Gruening 408.
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Read the syllabus.
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See the schedule. Go there often to find out what happens next.
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See the Daily Materials tab, for slides and worksheets. Zoom recordings of the lectures are Announcements on the Canvas website.
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Homework is assigned by section of the textbook. Please turn it using Gradescope by 11:59pm on the due date shown on the schedule and the Homework tab. Get to Gradescope via the Canvas site.
Useful Links
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Bueler’s office hours
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Watch this 3blue1brown “tour of differential equations” video
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Trefor Bazett has a YouTube playlist of differential equations videos which roughly follow the material in our course. Start with this introductory video for the series.
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What are we studying? Check out these Wikipedia pages for the topics we will get to, introduced in this approximate order:
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If you solve this ridiculously hard partial differential equation problem about fluids then you get $1 million. On the other hand, every fluids scientist or engineer takes for granted that they can solve that same problem very accurately, if not exactly
Textbook
Dennis G. Zill, A First Course in Differential Equations with Modeling Applications, 11th ed., 2018 (ISBN-13: 978-1337604994)
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