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EGM 3311 Introduction to Engineering Analysis- Fall 2002.

12/9: Material for final exam.

BASIC INFORMATION

Instructor: Raphael T. Haftka, email: haftka@ufl.edu

Office: Room 220 Aerospace Building.

Office Hours: M 10^th period, W 7^th period, F 5^th period.

Teaching assistants: Helen Garcia (hmg@ufl.edu), Ye Tian (yetian@ufl.edu), and Bryan Glaz (bglaz@ufl.edu).

TA Office hours: Monday 4th period, Tuesday 2nd to 6^th periods, Wednesday 4th period, Thursday 5th period, Friday 4th, 7th periods, 107 NEB. Wednesday 8th, 9th periods, Thursday 4^th period, Friday 3^rd, 8^th, and 9^th periods, 211 Benton.

Textbook: Edwards, C.H., and Penney, D.E., Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems, 4^th edition, Prentice Hall, 2000.

COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES

Objective: The course objective is to teach students to recognize, solve and use the ordinary differential equations (ODE) most commonly encountered in engineering.

Catalog Information: Solution methods for first and second order ordinary differential equations. Applications to radioactive decay, mass spring systems and electric circuits. Treatement of the Bessel and Legendre equations. Laplace transform methods applied to constant coefficient equations. Solution of simultaneous first order equations. Prerequisite: MAC 2313.

Outcomes: Upon completing EGM3311, the student is expected to be able to do the following:

Recognize and classify ordinary differential equations with respect to order, linearity, homogeneity, constant coefficients, etc.
Solve simple linear and nonlinear first order ODEs.
Solve second order linear equations using direct methods, series solutions, and Laplace transforms
Formulate problems of radioactive decay, mass spring systems and electric circuits as ODEs and solve them.

COURSE ASSESSMENT

Homework and quizzes: Homework assignments help students absorb methodology and concepts and prepare them for the exams. Consequently, timely preparation of homework is important: No late homework will be accepted. 20% of the combined homework and quizzes will not be counted, so an occasionally missed homework assignment or missing one quiz does not automatically mean loss of grade points. If a student does more than 80% of the homework and quizzes, assignments and quizzes with the lowest grades will be dropped in calculating the grade. Only part of the homework will be graded, and the understanding of homework assignment will be tested by (closed books) quizzes that will be identical to one of the homework problems except that numbers may be different. Homework and quizzes will allow up to 10% extra credit for clear and detailed explanations.

Grading Policy: 10% homework, 15% homework quizzes, 45% three in-semester exams, 30% final exam. Grades are on a `flexible absolute' scale (A=91+, B=81+, C=71+, D=61+, with minor adjustments to avoid grades being decided by a fraction of a point)

In-Term Exams: In-class exam are closed book, except for one 8.5"x11" page, written in any density (student may bring a magnifier). The worst exam will not be counted in grade calculation, but no make-up exams will be given.

Final Exam: comprehensive for students with less than A. Students with an A (91+), going into the final, will need to solve only problems relating to the material since the second in-term exam. The weight of the final exam will be reduced in proportion to the number of problems they do not solve from the first part of the semester.

Enjoy. All feedback is welcome. Do not hesitate to contact me with any problems.

If you have comments or suggestions:

Email me at haftka@ufl.edu

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