The exam has now been graded. For your reference, the exam and solutions are now available as PDF files. You may pick up your exam; Peter will be in his office on and off during May, then all summer semester.
The Final Exam will be Friday, April 29th from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM in the Schmitt Lecture Hall. A review sheet is available, and solutions are being posted (to come).
Please, please, please &ndash if you find a mistake, send me email! There are two important consequences of this: it will allow me to check your work, and it will allow me to share your correction with everyone else. Thanks!
You will be given a Formula Sheet on the final exam. A draft version is now available for you to examine. Please send me email if you have any suggestions for improvement. The final version is also available.
The two instructors, Peter Garfield and Victoria Lovegren, will be at the Math Gala (1:00 PM – 6:00 PM on Tuesday, April 26th in the Thwing Center Ballroom). They will have a room from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Garfield 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM and Lovegren 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM).
Peter Garfield will also have the following office hours:
Quizzes will closely follow the assigned homework. Please keep up with the homework as much as possible.
The tenth quiz will be due in class on Friday, April 22nd. The quiz and solutions are now available for download.
The ninth quiz was given in class on Tuesday, April 12th. It covered exponential models; see the worksheets from class for details: Review of Exponential Functions (see also § 11.3), Exponential Models [pdf] (Wednesday, April 6th), and Exponential Models II [pdf] (Friday, April 8th). The quiz and solutions are now available for download.
The eighth quiz will be due in class on Tuesday, March 29th. The quiz and solutions are now available for download.
The seventh quiz will be given in class on Tuesday, March 22nd. It will covered sections 13.8, 14.1, and the basics of 14.2 from the text. The quiz and solutions are now available for download.
The sixth quiz was given in class on Tuesday, March 15th. It covered section 13.7 of the text. The quiz and solutions are now available for download.
The fifth quiz was given in class on Tuesday, February 22nd. It covered sections 13.2, 13.3, and 13.4 of the text. The quiz and solutions are now available for download.
The fourth quiz was passed out in class on Tuesday, February 15th. It covers sections 12.4 and 13.1 of the text, and was due in class on Friday, February 18th. The quiz and solutions are now available for download.
The third quiz was given in class on Tuesday, February 1st. It covered sections 7.5 and 8.1 of the text. The quiz and solutions are available.
The second quiz was passed out in class on Friday, January 21st, and it is due in class on Tuesday, January 25th. It covers sections 7.3 and 7.4 of the text. The quiz is available for download (corrected Saturday, Jan 22, 11:30 AM). The solutions are now available.
Correction: The problems assigned from the text (in problems 3 and 4 of the quiz) are from Section 7.4, not Section 7.3. There are no problems 54 and 62 in Section 7.3.
Clarification: The 5 numbers are picked without replacement. That is, once the number 4 is picked, it cannot be picked as a second number. So the event (1,3,15,17,19) is possible, but the event (1,1,14,14, 22) is not.
The first quiz was Tuesday, January 18th, and it covered sections 7.1 and 7.2 of the text. The quiz and solutions are available.
Midterm exams will follow the assigned homework less closely than the quizzes, but it will still be generally based on the work done in class and assigned homework problems.
Midterm three covered all the material since the second midterm that we covered in class through Friday, April 25th. This means Section 13.7 and all of Chapter 14. There is a review sheet available, as are solutions (revised 10:45 AM, Saturday April 2).
The exam and solutions are now available.
Midterm two will cover all the material since the first midterm that we cover through Friday, February 25th. This means Section 12.4 and the first six sections of Chapter 13. There is a review sheet (with solutions) available. (The solutions were revised Monday, Feb. 28th, 1:10 PM: solutions to 8(f) and 12(b) corrected.)
The exam and solutions are now available.
Midterm one will cover all the material we cover through Friday, February 4th. This means Chapter 7, plus Sections 8.1 and 12.1 through 12.3. There is a review sheet (with solutions), as well as the review handout [corrected after class] from Monday, February 7th.
The exam and solutions are now available.
The point of a quiz or an exam is to prove to the grader that you know how to solve the problems asked. Thus the final answer is not the most important part of the exam; rather it is the work or reasoning behind the answer. You should show your work or explain your thinking in order to receive full credit.
Please see the exam page or schedule for more information on the time and content of the quizzes and exams.
Only simple calculators may be used on the quizzes and exams. You may not use graphing or programmable calculators. If there is any question as to whether your calculator is acceptable, please speak with me as far in advance as possible.
There will be more or less weekly quizzes during the semester - some in-class (on Tuesdays) and some take-home (not necessarily on Tuesdays). These will be worth a total of 10% of your course grade. Dates and topics for each in-class quiz will be announced in advance in class and on the course web page. Take-home quizzes will be passed out in class and also available for download from the course web page.
Makeup exams will not be given without the written permission of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies.
There will be three midterm exams, each worth 20% of your total grade. The exams are tentatively scheduled for three Tuesdays: February 8th, March 1st, and April 5th. Confirmed dates and topics to be covered for each exam will be announced in advance, both in class and on the web page.
The final exam will be scheduled at the end of term, and will be worth 30% of your final grade. It will be cumulative: any topic covered during the semester may be on the exam.