Mathematics 3113-005 - Introduction to ODE - Spring 2002
Information about Exam III
Exam III will be in the usual classroom on April 18, 2002. Rather than taking your usual seat,
you will need to sit so that there is no one on either side of you.
Only a basic, non-graphing calculator may be used. Actually, there is no need to use a
calculator. Scratch paper will be provided, so all you will need is something to write with.
The exam will be worth 52 points, and will cover sections 4.1-4.2 and 7.1-7.4. The approximate
point breakdown by section of the text is as follows:
| 4.1 | 4
|
| 4.2 | 5
|
| 7.1 | 9
|
| 7.2 | 16
|
| 7.3 | 8
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| 7.4 | 10
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| Total | 52
|
You will be given a formulas list, identical to the one you can view here.
You will need to know Cramer's rule, and how to set up
partial fractions and solve for the unknown coefficients. You will need to know how to write a
higher-order equation or system of higher-order equations as a system of first-order equations
(as in section 4.1). The emphasis will be on calculating transforms and inverse transforms,
and using the transform to solve equations, but you may also be asked to verify basic
properties of the transform, as we did for most of the formulas in class.
You can see two sets of exams that I wrote for this course in previous semesters, on the website for the Spring,
2001 course. Our exam may be a bit longer than those, since those courses had 50-minute
classes.