09/02/08: How DEs arise: mathematical models. Terminology. Integrals
as solutions. The geometry of DEs: slope fields; existence and
uniqueness. [Sections 1.1-3]
09/02/08: How DEs arise: mathematical models. Terminology. Integrals
as solutions. The geometry of DEs: slope fields; existence and
uniqueness. [Sections 1.1-3]
09/04/08: Separable DEs and applications: natural (exponential) growth
and decay (population growth, compound interest, radioactive dating),
Newton's law of cooling. Word problems. [Section 1.4]
09/09/08: Linear first-order DEs. [Section 1.5]