Steve Bell's Math 266 class

MA 26600 111 (CRN 18483)    MWF 1:30-2:20 pm   in UNIV 001

Ordinary Differential Equations

Professor Steve Bell OFFICE: Math 750 OFFICE PHONE: (765)-494-1497 E-MAIL: bell AT purdue DOT you_know_where OFFICE HOURS: T,Th 2:00-3:00 pm and Wed 7:00-8:00 pm via zoom by email appointment

Textbook: Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems: Computing
and Modeling Tech Update, Edwards and Penney, Plus MyLab Math
with Pearson eText - 18-Week Access Card

bundled with online homework: Pearson MyLab Math,

which can be purchased in these various forms.

Important links

• LECTURES -- lecture notes and videos of Bell's tablet PC lectures

• The MA 266 Assignment sheet

• A single PDF sheet containing a condensed calendar

• Bell's MA 266 calendar (same as condensed version)

• The MA 266 Groundrules

• A quick student guide to Pearson MyLab Math

• Bell's Bell's MA 266 Piazza page

• and Piazza page sign-up link

• Central MA 266 Home Page for all 266 sections at

  http://www.math.purdue.edu/MA266

The Final Exam is on Thursday, Dec 16, 7:00-9:00 pm in the Balcony of WTHR 200

Here is a map to find WTHR and here is a seating chart
for our section. The door to the balcony of WTHR 200
is on the third floor and is marked Balcony 200.

The exam is a 20 question multiple choice exam covering
the whole course. Each problem is worth 10 points.

You will need number 2 pencils for the Final Exam
for filling in a mark-sense answer sheet. Be sure
to bring an eraser and your PUID. You will need to
bubble in your TEN DIGIT PUID (which starts with
two zeroes) on the scantron and our four digit
section number 0111.

The last page of the exam will be this Table of Laplace transforms.

Study material:

• Practice problems for the Final Exam

Resources

Right click and save the m-file eul.m or click on this text file
and copy the text to a file named eul.m for use with MATLAB

... and here is a Matlab tutorial for using eul.m to implement Euler's method

Find more matlab tutorials at the Main MA 266 home page

A LaTeX tutorial for Piazza to be viewed in Adobe Reader in full screen mode a page at a time.

A quick MAPLE tutorial