SYLLABUS

MATH 312 Differential Equations Spring, 2011

Instructor: Ivan C. Sterling, 177 SH, cell 240-431-8185, isterling@smcm.edu.

Office Hours: TBA

Book: Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problesm, 9th Ed, Boyce & DiPrima

Course Outline: Chapters 1-6

Tests and Grades: There will be five exams (worth 80% of your course grade, 16% each). One of the five exams will be the non-comprehensive final. Homework will be part of your grade (worth 20%). The homework will be collected at the beginning of class on the day it’s due. Late homework will not be accepted. After it is collected some of the homework problems will be selected for the TA to grade. The exam problems will be the same or similar to those in the homework and the examples worked in class.

Dates for the exams:

F 2/4; F 2/25; F 3/25; F 4/15; Final: M 5/9 9-11:15pm (All Exams will be in 111SH, except the Final which will be in Glendening Annex)

Grading (roughly): 90-100% A,A-; 80-90% B+,B,B-; 70-80% C+,C,C; 60-70% D+,D,D-; 0-60% F;

Teaching Assistants: Lucia Randazzo lmrandazzo@smcm.edu; Cory Wentworth cawentworth@smcm.edu; phone-TBA, office-hours-TBA, review- sessions-TBA .