Exam 3
Friday May 1
Closed book
Chapters 5, 6 and 8.1 and 8.2.1
Calculators are permitted
You may bring one side of a page (8.5 x 11) of notes
If you cannot complete the exam during class, you may continue to work on it or turn it in and come back to complete
it before 4:30 this afternoon, spending no more than a total of 2 hours on it
Topics
Hooke's law
Undamped, damped, and forced spring/mass systems
The difference between regular points, regular singular points,
and irregular singular points
Series solutions at regular and singular points
Systems of linear equations (by finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors)