MATH 417, Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations

  • Instructor: Anton Petrunin
  • Class: TuTh 10:35--11:50 Boucke Bldg 307
  • Office hours: Th 12:00--13:00, McAlister 333
    • Midterms/HWA/Quizzes/Extra

  • Midterm: Th Feb 22 in class.
  • Final Exam: Tue, May 1, 104 Thomas building, 14:30--16:20.
  • HWA: usually assigned on Th and usually is due next Tu.
  • Quizzes: once a week, usually on Th; it is allways based on previous HWA.
    • Grading policy:

  • Each HWA = 10,
  • Each Quiz = 10,
  • Midterm = 100,
  • Final = 160,
    • No makeups! Two worse HWA and two worse Quizzes will be dropped.

  • 90% guarantees "A".
  • 80% guarantees "B".
  • 70% guarantees "C".
  • 55% guarantees "D".

    • The lowest three percentage points of a range will be minus and the highest three percentage points of a range will be plus.

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