Teaching - Ordinary Differential Equations 8501 - Fall 02 - Arnd Scheel

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Syllabus (PDF)

Homework Assignments

HA 1, due September 13 (PDF)
HA 2, due September 20 (PDF)
HA 3, due September 27 (PDF)
HA 4, due October 4 (PDF)
HA 5, due October 11 (PDF)
HA 6, due October 18 (PDF)
HA 7, due October 25 (PDF)
HA 8, due November 8 (PDF)
HA 9, due November 15 (PDF)
HA 10, due December 6 (PDF)

Due date for assignments HA6 and HA7 changed to November 1

Projects (PDF)

Solutions

Quiz from September 4 (PDF)
HA 1 (PDF)
HA 4 (PDF)

Software

dstool For installation on U of M linux, download the version that works for linux , and move it to a directory where you want dstool to be installed, e.g. mkdir dstool to create a directory and then mv dstool_tk-redhat6.2.tar.gz dstool/. To unpack the archive type tar -zxvf dstool_tk-redhat6.2.tar.gz.
1. Set temporary environment variables: type setenv ARCH linux and setenv DSTOOL path, where path is the path to the directory you unpacked the archive, e.g. /home/grad/xy/dstool.
2. In the math department network - and possibly and you own system - edit the file $DSTOOL/config/Makedefs.linux, e.g. type pico $DSTOOL/config/Makedefs.linux and change the library path to: X11_LIBS = -L/usr/X11R6/libc5 -lX11.
3. Go to the directory $DSTOOL and type make World. After successful compilation, you can start dstool typing ./bin/dstool_tk.
4. Permanently define the variables: Go to your home directory and add the definitons from above and an alias for dstool in the file .bashrc, e.g. type pico .bashrc and add the lines setenv ARCH linux setenv DSTOOL path alias dstool=path/bin/dstool_tk to the end of the file.
5. Upon new login (or type source .bashrc) you can start dstool from everywhere by typing dstool.
Learn about using dstool - best start is the tutorial. Type unzip tutorial.zip to uncompress.
- Download the documentations from here. Note that the .zip archives contain several postscript files; uncompress the .gz files with gunzip *.gz.
- Learn about using dstool's parser here
xpp - instructions and a Windows version are available there.
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