2. First Order Differential Equations (14 Credit Hours)
2.1. Linear Equations; Method of Integrating Factors
2.2. Separable Equations in Variables
2.3. Modeling with First Order Equations
2.4. Exact Equations and Integrating Factors
2.5. Elementary Transformation Method
2.6. The Existence and Uniqueness Theorem
2.7. Proof of the Existence and Uniqueness Theorem
2.8. Peano's Existence Theorem
2.9. Extensions of Solutions
2.10. Comparison Theorems
3. Second Order Linear Equations (8 Credit Hours)
3.1. Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients
3.2. Solutions of Linear Homogeneous Equations; the Wronskian
3.3. Complex Roots of the Characteristic Equation
3.4. Repeated Roots; Reduction of Order
3.5. Nonhomogeneous Equations; Method of Undetermined Coefficients
3.6. Variation of Parameters
3.7. Mechanical and Electrical Vibrations
4. High Order Linear Equations (2 Credit Hours)
4.1. General Theory of nth Order Linear Equations
4.2. Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients
4.3. The Method of Undetermined Coefficients
4.4. The Method of Variation of Parameters
5. Systems of First Order Linear Equations (8 Credit Hours)
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Review of Matrices
5.3. Basic Theory of Systems of First Order Linear Equations
5.4. Continuous Dependence of Solutions on Initial Conditions and Parameters
5.5. Homogeneous Linear Systems with Constant Coefficients
5.6. Complex Eigenvalues
5.7. Fundamental Matrices
5.8. Repeated Eigenvalues
5.9. Nonhomogeneous Linear Systems
6. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Stability (8 Credit Hours)
6.1. The Phase Plane: Linear Systems
6.2. Autonomous Systems and Stability
6.3. Locally Linear Systems
6.4. Liapunov's Second Method
6.5 Periodic Solutions and Limit Cycles
6.6 Poincare-Bendixson Theorem
7. Sturm-Liouville theory (6 Credit Hours)
7.1. Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions
7.2. Existence and properties of eigenvalues
7.3. An application to the heat equation