Welcome to  Aut2017: MAP2302 1G33  Elem.Diff.Equations   MWF8 LIT125 (NW)

    Math dept. tel.: 352-294-2350   << IMPORTANT
    Prof. Jonathan King          squash@ufl.edu  (eddress)
  If you need to get an important message to me (e.g, you'll be missing
  an exam), then BOTH email me and have the secretaries
  put a note in my mailbox, by telephoning 352-294-2350.

    My Office: 402 Little Hall (Top floor, NE corner)   352-294-2314
          "Maximize  x, y and z."
  If I am not in the office then it is best to EMAIL me, as I don't
  remotely pick-up phone messages. Current office hours (may change during the
  semester), are Mondays & Wednesdays 9th period [16:05-16:55].

  TEXT: "Fundamentals of differential equations and boundary value problems"
  9th ed., by Nagle, Saff and Snider. Addison-Wesley (Pearson), NINEth edition.

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  TEACHING PAGE:	http://JonathanKing.org/teaching.html
  Course-webpage:	http://JonathanKing.org/course.DfyQ.past.html#C2017t
  Quick-links:	http://JonathanKing.org/M/h.html
  Prof. King @UF:	https://people.clas.ufl.edu/squash/
  Math Dept.:	http://math.ufl.edu/
  OFFICE HOURS, may change a bit during the semester.  They are on
    http://JonathanKing.org/info.jksched.html
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    Letters-of-recommendation (LORs): I base LORs substantially on how a
  student "thinks on his feet".  Need /two/ proof-based courses with me.


/---- DfyQ SYLLABUS -------------------------------------\
My PDF notes [on course-webpage], as well as
Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and parts of 8, from 

"Fundamentals of differential equations and boundary value problems"
by Nagle, Saff and Snider, 9-th Edition, Addison-Wesley (Pearson).

We'll cover differential-ops, complex numbers, and convolutions earlier than the textbook.
  There is a private DiffyQ Archive page, for us to communicate with each
other.  I will email you the URL.
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/---- GRADES: The number of points below are /approximate/ --\
  Three in-class exams, each approx. 200 points.

  There will be some small number of "pop"  (unannounced) microquizzes, each
worth 30points.  These will never occur on religious holidays; please
>> EMAIL of such holidays by Sunday, 27Aug2017. <<

  Usually, a pop-quiz has a single, easy question.  I use them partly
for attendance, and checking that an idea from the previous class 
caught on.  
 >>  Important:: I /drop/ the lowest microquiz score.  AND: There
 >>  is /No Makeup/ for the first missed quiz; that is what the dropped-score is for.
(The first microquiz will be Wednesday, 30Aug.)

  Under /rare/ circumstances, I /may/ give you a makeup for a later
missed quiz, if you have a good reason for missing.

I usually give a microquiz /the classday after an exam day.
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/---- More Grades: ----------------------------------------\
* There will be 3 exams, each approximately 200points.
* Some number of microquizzes (each 30points). 
* A CP (class-participation) grade for each month (approx. 45points);
  CP grade is based on posting to our Archive, on class attendance,
  on lively participation in class.
* An /Optional/ Project at the end of the semester.  My class has no final exam.

>  I will give a a written course-grade estimate no later than the morning of 
>  the withdraw date, and (hopefully), the day before.

  There is /no/ final exam.  Rather, there will be
an /Optional/ Individual Final-Project, that must be typed.  It can
lift or lower your grade by "one click"; a grade of "B" could become a
"B+", or stay a "B" or, if the project is terrible, drop to a "B-".
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  HOMEWORK: I do not collect written HW.  Rather, a substantial part of
your CP grade comes from your posting solutions to the Archive.  These
are not typically assigned; it depends on your own energy and motivation.
  I will email the URL of the Archive to each student.  
 

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Exams are in-class, closed-book, calculatorless, open brain

  In general, microquizzes are "pop" (unannounced) quizzes, but
a few are scheduled, below.  I drop the lowest microquiz.  There is
no-makeup for the first missed microquiz.  With appropriate documentation,
there may be a makeup for later missed microquizzes.

NOTE:  Occasionally, an exam needs to be moved to the following classday
if we get behind in material.

[Due to hurricane Irma, the date of Exam-S was moved later by a week.
 Exam-U was moved later by two days.]

* EXAM-S:		Monday, 25Sep. 
* Microquiz		Wedn., 27Sep.

* Microquiz		Wedn., 04Oct.
Homecoming		6-7Oct, NO SCHOOL.
* Microquiz		Monday, 09Oct.

* EXAM-T:		Wedn., 18Oct..
* Microquiz		Friday, 20Oct.

* Microquiz		Wedn., 08Nov.
Veterans Day		10-11Nov.

* EXAM-U:   (moved to)	Wedn., 15Nov.
* Microquiz (moved to)	Friday, 17Nov.

UF Withdraw Deadline.	Monday, 20Nov.

* Microquiz		Monday, 20Nov.
Thanksgiving.Vac.	22-25Nov., NO SCHOOL.
* Microquiz		Monday, 27Nov.

* (Optional) Proj-V PDF avail.:	Evening, Thur., 30Nov.
Last day class & Games party:	Wedn., 06Dec.
* Project-V due:		Noon, Thur., 07Dec.

Please check these dates to let me know of a conflict, e.g, a major
religious holiday that I missed.