Math 371-4 - Ordinary Differential Equations - Fall 2011


Instructor: Nate Reff
Office: LN G99B
Email: reff at math dot binghamton dot edu
Course Meetings: TR 8:00-9:55 in S1 140
Office Hours: T 12:00-12:30, T 2:30-3:00, W 9:00-11:00 in LN 2408A
Help Room Schedule: pdf
Textbook: Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 4th Ed., by D. Zill and W. Wright (ISBN-13: 978-0763779665), Google Preview.
Coordinator: Prof. Xu
Syllabus: pdf

Class Material
  • Homework
  • Quizzes
  • Course Appetizer
  • Course Schedule (Approximation)
  • Midterm Topics
  • Midterm Review (from Prof. Xu)
  • Midterm Review Questions (slides). Printable version here.
  • Midterm Sample Questions. (from Prof. Xu)
  • Laplace Formula Sheet.
  • Final Exam Topics
  • Review questions from 3.8-5.2. See Midterm Review Questions above for (1.1-3.8).

  • Calendar

    Prerequisite Resources
  • Old BU Calculus 2 Exams (From Jackie Kaminski's Website)
  • Integration (Paul Dawkins @ Lamar)
  • Practice:1, 2, 3; even more here (Jackie Kaminski)
  • Trig (Paul Dawkins @ Lamar)
  • Algebra (Paul Dawkins @ Lamar)

  • Additional Resources
  • Differential Equations @ MIT OCW (Has video lectures)
  • Differential Equations, Paul's Online Math Notes (Paul Dawkins @ Lamar)
  • Differential Equations @ Oklahoma State
  • UCCS Math Courses, Requires Registration. They have several introductory courses in differential equations.

  • Other Educational Resources
  • In 2002 MIT launched the OpenCourseWare (OCW) website: ocw.mit.edu. The basic concept was to make educational material freely available to the public. Since its inception many (over 200 or so) other universities have adopted the principles and created there own OCW projects. See the OpenCourseWare Consortium website.
  • Another website which offers free online video lectures is Academic Earth.
  • iTunes U, which is part of the iTunes Store is also another large collection of free educational media.