MA 366, Spring 2010

Math Club

The Math Club sponsors talks on subjects that are of interest to all students interested in mathematics. Talks are in Recitation 113, from 6:00-7:00 PM.

• January 28: Edray Goins. Elliptic Curves.
• February 4: Steve Bell. Fourier Series.
• February 11: Donu Arapura.
• February 18: Laszlo Lempert.
• March 4: Joseph Lipman.
• April 15: Burgess Davis.
• April 29: Peijun Li.

Need to review integration?

See Paul's Online Math Notes, which reviews lots of stuff, including techniques of integration in his Calculus II notes and factoring polynomials in his algebra notes. Recommended by a student.

Quizes

Quizes are roughly a half hour in length, will take place every second Friday, beginning January 15.

• (January 15) Integration: integration by parts, substitution, and partial fractions; solutions.
• (January 29) Covers the homework due January 22; solutions.
• (February 12) Covers homework due January 27 and February 3; solutions.
• (February 26) Covers homework due February 10 and February 17; solutions.
• (March 25) Covers homework due February 24, March 3, and March 10; solutions.
• (April 9) Covers Chapter 6, solving differential equations with Laplace transforms; solutions.

Homework

Homework will be assigned one week (MWF), and will be due the following Wednesday. I do not accept late homework.

• (January 22): Page 25, #7, 17, 20; page 39, #3, 13, 25, 30. Office hours are January 20, not January 18.
• (January 27): Page 47, #4, 6, 10, 12, 21, 31, 34; page 59, #1, 3, 6, 12.
• (February 3): Page 64, #16, 24, 27, 23; page 75, #3, 5, 9, 8, 22.
• (February 10): Page 88, #7, 9, 22, 28; page 99, #2, 4, 7, 14, 18.
• (February 17): Page 144, #4, 9, 25; page 155 #2, 6, 8, 9, 13, 14, 22, 24; page 163, #2, 5, 13, 14, 18, 25.
• (February 24): Page 171, #6, 14, 16, 26, 28; page 183, #4, 8, 16, 19(a), 29; page 189, #7, 8, 12, 15.
• (March 3): Page 202, #3, 6, 17, 27; page 215, #5, 7, 24.
• (March 10): Page 311, #2, 8, 9, 16; page 320 #1, 2, 5, 6, 13, 18, 21, 17.
• (March 24): Page 328, #1, 2, 5, 7, 14, 19, 21, 36, 37; page 336, #4, 5, 10; page 343, #1, 2, 5, 7, 15.
• (March 31): Page 350, #3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 22(a), 23(a), 26(a). No office hours Monday, March 29, sorry.
• (April 7): Page 359, #2, 5, 8; page 398, #1, 5, 6, 11, 15.
• (April 14): Page 409, #1, 14; page 420 #1, 6, 12.
• (April 21): Page 428, #1, 7, 17; page 439, #1, 4, 13.

Office hours, etc.

Office hours: Monday, 7:00PM-10:00PM, or by appointment.

Grading Scheme

Lab: 100 points; homework: 100 points; biweekly quizes: 150 points; final exam: 150 points.

Labs

The labs are run totally independently of the lectures. The students in my lecture will be distributed among the four lab sections on Tuesday. At the end of the semester the lab grades will be given to me to incorporate into the total grades.

Tutors are available

The Mathematics Department maintains a list of mathematics tutors. Tutors are also available through the Women in Science and Engineering Tutoring Program run by the Colleges of Science and Engineering.

dfield and pplane in a browser, without Matlab!

The programs dfield and pplane, needed for some of the homework problems, have been implemented as Java browser applets at this web page. They can be run without Matlab; you must have Java enabled in your browser preferences.