Ordinary Differential Equations (QCR)

Subject associations
MAT 427
Term
Spring 2022
Instructors
Paul C. Yang
Registrar description

This course offers an introduction to the study of ordinary differential equations. Topics include: Explicit solutions of some linear and non-linear equations (using tools that span: separation of variables, integrating factors, Greens functions, and Laplace transform methods); Series solutions of ODEs with analytic coefficients and with regular singular points; Fundamental existence and uniqueness theorems (Peano, Picard-Lindelof, and Osgood); Introduction to dynamical systems (Poincare-Bendixon theorem); Stability of equilibrium points and periodic orbits.