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These are notes for the University of Alberta MATH 201 - Differential Equations course.
I have written these notes for myself, I thought it would be cool to share them. These notes may be inaccurate, incomplete, or incoherent. No warranty is expressed or implied. Reader assumes all risk and liabilities.
How to solve any DE, a flow chart (Last updated Oct 1st 2023. Needs revision, but it gives a nice overview.)
Big LT table (.png)
Small LT table (.png)
Additional recommended study material
For the midterm exam, I highly recommend watching this video by The Math Sorcerer: youtube.com/watch?v=kIZpbeE_yTc
From my experience, studying off this video was by far the best use of my time. Try each question yourself and follow his solution to check.
For the final exam, I unfortunately couldn't find good study videos. I recommend studying PDE's hard, solidify your understanding of heat eq, driven heat eq, heat eq with non-zero end points, wave eq, and driven wave eq. Afterwards, I recommend studying power series since it's the next biggest scary monster. Finally, go over the rest of the past topics to fill your understanding and memory if you have the time. I'm thinking I should record a final exam review guide, hmmm. I'll update this text if I ever make one.
The recommended course textbook when I took the class was: Fundamentals of Differential Equations, R. Kent Nagle, Edward B. Saff and Arthur D. Snider, 9th Edition Which is a good textbook imo, although I didn't use it often.
Personally, I studied the material by attending the lectures and then reviewing/revising these typed notes at home, often relying on my prof's notes on eclass in case I copied off the whiteboard wrong/couldn't keep up. (eclass is the name of my university's online class management system.)
Of course there may still be mistakes riddled throughout so as of Jan 5th 2024, I'm offering 1$ CAD in bounties for every mistake reported to my email/git repo, at least until supplies last. General editing and formatting changes are also gladly welcomed through the git repository below or by email.