Math 33B

Instructor: Erkao Bao

Email: bao at math dot ucla dot edu
Office: MS 7340
Tentative Office hours: 9:55-10:55 MW or by appointment
Math help: Student Math Center 9am-3pm (M-TR) in MS3974. Detailed schedule can be
found at: www.math.ucla.edu/ugrad/smc
This term we will be using Piazza for class discussion. The system is highly catered to
getting you help fast and efficiently from classmates, the TA, and myself. Rather than
emailing questions to your TA, I encourage you to post your questions on Piazza.
Enroll in piazza at :piazza.com/ucla/winter2016/33b
Enrollment requires an E-mail address ends with ucla.edu. If you do not have such an E-
mail address, please email me, and I can enroll you manually.
If you have any question, you should ask in the following order: piazza, student math
center, your TA, and your lecturer. Sending an E-mail to me should be reserved as the
last resort.

Grading policy:
Homework(20%)+Quiz(10%)+Midterm(30%)+Final(40%)=X
Homework(30%)+Quiz(15%)+Midterm(0%)+Final(55%)=Y
Your final score= max(X,Y).
Your final letter grade is completely determined by your percentile of your final score
among all students in the class.
• exams
We have one midterm exam and one final exam.
Midterm: lecture time and lecture location, Feb 8th.
Final: Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 3:00pm-6:00pm
No makeup exam is allowed under any circumstances. We will drop your lower midterm
score (in numbers, not in percentile) automatically. Your final grade will be completely
determined by your total score.
• homework
Homework is assigned online weekly on piazza. The homework assignment usually
accumulates during the week, finalizes on Friday and is due next week in discussion
section. It is only collected by your TA’s in discussion sections, graded by a reader, and
returned back to you in discussion sections. The homework grading is based on
completeness. No late homework is allowed under any circumstances. In total, eight
homework will be collected. We will drop the lowest three scores automatically.
• Quiz
There will be two 10 mins quizzes given in lecture on Jan 22 and Feb 26.
No makeup quiz is allowed. We will drop the lowest score automatically. The materials
of the quiz are essentially from the homework.

Tentative Schedule of Lectures

Lecture
Section
Topics
1
2.1,
Examples, Direction Fields,
2
2.2
Separable equations
3
2.4, 2.5
Linear Equations, x' (t) = a (t) x (t) + f (t), Mixing Problems
4
2.6
Exact Differential Equations
5
2.6
Continuation of Previous Lecture
6
2.7,
Existence and Uniqueness,
7
2.9
Autonomous Equations and Stability
8
4.1, 4.2
Existence and Uniqueness, Linear Dependence, The Wronskian
9

Continuation
10
4.2, 4.3
Second Order Constant Coefficient Equations
11
4.3
Continuation
12
4.5
Undetermined Coefficients
13

continuation
14
7.1
Matrices operation. Inverse matrices
15
System of equations. (homogeneous, inhomogeneous)
16

midterm Feb 8th.

17

Determinant, eigenvector, generalized eigenvector

18
9.13
Linear Systems with Constant Coefficients
19
9.24
2 x 2 systems
20
9.2
Continuation
21
9.2
Continuation
22
9.3
Phase Plane Portraits (November 21 substitute)
24
9.4
The Trace-Determinant Plane (November 24 substitute)
25

continuation
26
9.5
Higher-Dimensional Systems, harmonic motion
27
9.5
Continuation
28
9.6
The Exponential of a Matrix
29
9.6
Continuation
30

review

final