COURSE INFORMATION
500.303 APPLIED MATHEMATICS I
FALL 2000
| Instructor: | Beryl Castello |
| Department: | Mathematical Sciences |
| Office: | Whitehead 212-B |
| Office hours: | MTW 12-1 pm |
| Email: | castello@mts.jhu.edu |
| Phone: | (410) 516-4161 |
Course Web Page: http://www.mts.jhu.edu/~castello/Applied-Math
Text: Erwin Kreyszig, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Eighth edition, 1999.
Homework: There will be weekly assignments due in class every Wednesday. Students may discuss homework, however, all solutions MUST be written up and submitted individually.
Overview of Topics Covered:
I. Ordinary Differential Equations, Laplace Transforms, and Systems of ODEs.
II. Analytic Qualitative methods using the Phase-Plane and Numerical methods for ODEs.
III. Partial differential equations and Fourier series and transforms.
Grading:
Your final grade in this class will be determined as follows:
| Exam #1 | 25% | (early to middle October) |
| Mid-semester Project (Exam #2) | 30% | (middle to late November) |
| Exam #3 | 25% | (Finals Week) |
| Homework | 20% | (due every Wednesday in class) |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 100 % | = 50 % in-class + 50 % take-home |
Although Exam #3 will be during Finals Week, it will cover only the material in the last third of the course.
Late Homework and Make-Up Exams:
Unless discussed ahead of time with the instructor, the following rules apply to late homework:
If homework is not turned in during class, it MUST be delivered to Whitehead 212B.
There will be no make-up for Exam #2. Make-ups for Exams #1 and #3 may be available if discussed with the instructor at least 1 day before the date of the exam. Make-up exams are only available if exams are missed due to illness or family emergency. Proper documentation must be presented at time of make-up exam.
Extra Credit:
Extra credit will be available to students writing up and solving nontrivial examples of the application of techniques learned in this class to problems encountered in their studies outside of this class (i.e., applications not taken directly from our text). Extra points will be added to the homework grade for each example, where the number of points will depend on the effort expended by the student, the diffculty of the problem being solved, and the clarity of presentation.
Other extra credit opportunities may be given at the discretion of the instructor.