MA 108: Ordinary Differential Equations : Spring 2015

Instructors
Manoj K. Keshari (Instructor in-charge), Room 204D, Maths Department, Phone no. 7469.
Rekha Santhanam, Room 202C, Maths Department, Phone no. 7466.

Class Information
Division Slot
Timing
2A
Monday: 9:30 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
D1
2B
Tuesday: 10:35 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
2C Thursday: 11:35 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
2A
Monday: 9:30 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
D2
2B
Tuesday: 10:35 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
2C Thursday: 11:35 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
D3
9A
Monday: 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
9B
Thursday: 3:30 p.m. - 4:55 p.m.
D4
9A
Monday: 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
9B
Thursday: 3:30 p.m. - 4:55 p.m.

Venue

Instructor

LA101

MKK

LA102

RS

LA101

MKK

LA102

RS

Text
Elementary Differential Equations, by William F . Trench
available at http://ramanujan.math.trinity.edu/wtrench/texts/TRENCH DIFF EQNS I.PDF
Elementary Differential equations and Boundary Value Problems, 9th edition by William
E. Boyce and Richard C. DiPrima by Wiley Publishers.

Attendance
Attendance in the first week of classes (2 - 6 March, 2015) is mandatory.
Biometric attendance will not be considered.
Attendance counts for 5 marks of your total grade. There will random attendance taken
during class, absentees will lose 2.5 marks for every missed class.
You have to carry a valid ID card during Exams, Quizzes for verification.

Tutorials
Every week a set of tutorial problems will be assigned and posted on the Moodle class page.
Please attend the tutorial section assigned to you. Your TA will discuss some of these problems.
You are advised to try problems in advance and use this time to ask questions and doubts.

Tutors
D1
Pradyot Prakash
Shantanu Thakoor
Debasmita Mukherjee
Samriddho Roy
Vishnu Theja

D2
Aditi Laddha
Abhijit Biswas
Anand Dhoot
Arindam Jana
Mohd. Zinna

D3
Mustafa Lokhandwala
Mukesh Kumar Nagar
Avijit Panja
Rajiv Kumar
Ritesh Theranikal

D4
Provanjan Mallick
Deb Kumar Mondal
Sanket Barhate
Anjan Gupta
Kumar Siddharth

Tutorial Information
Venue
LT 301
LT 302
LT 303
LT 202
LT 203
LT 304
LT 305
LT 306
LT 205
LT 206
LT 301
LT 302
LT 303
LT 202
LT 203
LT 304
LT 305
LT 306
LT 205
LT 206

Batch
D1 T1
D1 T2
D1 T3
D1 T4
D1 T5
D2 T1
D2 T2
D2 T3
D2 T4
D2 T5
D3 T1
D3 T2
D3 T3
D3 T4
D3 T5
D4 T1
D4 T2
D4 T3
D4 T4
D4 T5

Timing
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Moodle
Please use the news forum on moodle to ask any questions, so other students and tutors can
also see your questions, and possibly answer them. We will use moodle to communicate with
you.

Evaluation
There is a total of 50 marks to be earned in this course. The breakup is as follows:
Main Quiz
30
Final
65
Attendance
5
Total
100

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Quiz and Exam

An hour long Quiz worth 30 marks will be conducted on April 8, 2015. The final exam worth
65 marks will be conducted on dates decided by the Academic Office. Make up will conducted
only if you have a valid excuse and been granted permission for a make up from the Dean
Academic Office.

Academic Honesty
It is obligatory on your part to be honest and not to violate the academic integrity of the
Institute. Any form of academic dishonesty, including, but not limited to cheating, plagiarism, submitting as ones own the same or substantially similar work of another, will not be
tolerated, and will invite the harshest possible penalties as per institute norms.
Disclaimer: The instructors reserve the right to modify the schedules (e.g. office
hours, etc. ) and procedures announced in this syllabus. Any such changes will
be announced in the class. It is the responsibility of the student to keep informed
of such things.