Summer 2013
Instructor: Sergei Chmutov
Teaching assistant: Luke Edholm
Classes: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
12:40 - 1:35 pm, and
Tuesday, Thursday 12:45 - 2:05 pm
at Caldwell Lab 0120.
TEXTBOOK: Partial Differential Equations and Boundary Value
Problems,
9-th OSU edition, by W.E. Boyce.
John Wiley & Sons (2012). ISBN: 9781119935148
You should read sections of the book before they are studied in class.
Homework: There will be two assignments per week due Tuesday and Friday before class.
Tests: There will be two midterms and one final exam. You may not use your calculator, your text, notes, or solutions to assignments. Except for extraordinary reasons, you must take the examinations at the scheduled times.
EXAMINATION SCHEDULE:
| MIDTERM 1 | Friday, June 28. | MIDTERM 2 | Wednesday, July 17. | FINAL EXAM | Wednesday, July 31, 2:00-3:45 pm |
TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE: Each homework will be graded out of 50 points. The lowest grade will be dropped. The total homework score will be the mean of remaining grades.
| Homework | 50 | Midterms | 2x100 | Final exam | 150 | TOTAL | 400 |
GRADING SCALE (Percent):
| A | A- | B+ | B | B- | C+ | C | C- | D+ | D |
| 90 | 87 | 83 | 80 | 77 | 73 | 70 | 67 | 63 | 60 |