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Lecture Notes

These lecture notes are pdf renderings of simple text files that were provided to the students containing nearly verbatim transcripts of Professor Miller's lectures.

SES # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES
I. First-order Differential Equations
1 Introduction

Separable Equations

Direction Fields
(PDF)
2 Isoclines

Models
(PDF)
3 Linear Equations (PDF)
4 Autonomous Equations

The Phase Line
(PDF)
5 Complex Numbers

Complex Exponential
(PDF)
6 Sinusoidal Functions (PDF)
7 Sinusoidal System Response (PDF)
II. Second-order Linear Equations
9 Solutions of Spring-mass-dashpot Models (PDF)
10 Superposition

Initial Conditions
(PDF)
11 Damping Conditions

Inhomogeneous Equations
(PDF)
12 Exponential Signals (PDF)
13 Operator Notation and Undetermined Coefficients (PDF)
14 Frequency Response (PDF)
15 Resonance (PDF)
16 Review (PDF)
III. Delta Functions and Convolution
18 Step and Delta Functions (PDF)
19 Impulse Response and Convolution (PDF)
20 From Convolution to the Laplace Transform (PDF)
IV. The Laplace Transform
21 Laplace Transform: Basic Properties (PDF)
22 Application to ODEs

Partial Fractions
(PDF)
23 Completing the Square

Transforms of Delta and Time Translated Functions
(PDF)
24 Convolution and Laplace Transform

The Pole Diagram
(PDF)
25 Numerical Methods (PDF)
V. Fourier Series
26 Fourier Series (PDF)
27 Differentiating and Integrating (PDF)
28 General Period (PDF)
29 Periodic Solutions (PDF)
30 Review: Fourier, Euler, Laplace
VI. First-order Systems
32 Linear Systems and Matrices (PDF)
33 Eigenvalues

Eigenvectors
(PDF)
34 Complex or Repeated Eigenvalues (PDF)
35 Qualitative Behavior of Linear Systems (PDF)
36 Normal Modes and the Matrix Exponential (PDF)
37 Inhomogeneous Equations (PDF)
38 Nonlinear Systems

The Phase Plane
(PDF)
39 Examples of Nonlinear Systems (PDF)