Mathematics 401, Sec. 500, Spring 2005

SKIP PAST THE ANNOUNCEMENTS if you so desire. ._. (or to near the bottom)

Course procedures and announcements:

• May 12: Grades are now posted in WebCT Vista. The median on the final was 69, rather disappointing (but I seem to say that after every final exam). Curve: Add 6 points (included in the total column but not in the final exam column on Vista). The median total score is 360, the minimal B.
  I enjoyed working with you. Motivation was high, and your success in producing electronically accessible solutions was unprecedented for a M. 401 class.
• May 11: Solutions to the final exam are now posted below.
• May 10: Please read the comments on Exercises 14.4 and 14.5.
• May 9: All scores except the final exam should now be in WebCT Vista. Homework scores will be divided by 2 (which leaves the median above 100 because of all the extra credit). In the other columns, what you see is what you get.
  Solutions for Week 14 have been posted below, when available. I need to add comments on exercises 4 and 5, but it is too late to do that tonight.
• Probable office hours between now and the final exam: Watch here for updates.
  • Monday (5/2): 10:30-11:20, 2:10-2:55
  • Tuesday: afternoon
  • Wednesday: no promises
  • Thursday: probably early afternoon (before 3:00)
  • Friday: morning only
  • Monday (5/9): morning and early afternoon (before 3:00)
  • Tuesday: afternoon, possibly morning
• Apr. 28: Most recent Math Club announcement (May 4, afternoon)
• Apr. 26: Message from the CalcLab director about the imminent end of your account and related matters.
• Apr. 25: Cosmology lecture tonight!
• Mar. 3: In Exercises 1 through 4 of Assignment 6, f and y are the same thing. I changed notation in the differential equations to match our current textbook and forgot to change it in the initial conditions. Sorry!
• Mar. 2: I shortened Exercises 5 and 6 of Assignment 6. Please see your Neo e-mail.
• Feb. 18: Plots of exact solutions of the quadratic oscillator ._. Maple code (Try modifying the parameters.)
• Feb. 6: From now on the LaTeX file for each homework set will be posted. LyX and TeX users can use a piece of it instead of recopying the problem. ._.._. Notice that in Week 4 you do only one homework problem. ._._. And note the next item (posted late):
• Feb. 4:
  • Maple output from today's demonstration of nonuniform convergence.
  • Mathematica output from a related research calculation. Here the functions are originally trig functions instead of algebraic ones, giving an example of the point made in the first day's lecture that asymptotic approximations are sometimes more understandable than exact formulas.
• Feb. 3: Take a look at the first week's results. ._._. Also, please note the three items between the handouts and the TeX documentation below.
• Jan. 25: REU announcement (summer 2005)
• Jan. 23: Math Career Fair announcement (Feb. 3)
• Please see my home page for up-to-date office hours.
• e-mail: fulling@calclab.math.tamu.edu (for homework reviews and related matters) ._._. fulling@math.tamu.edu (for quick response)
• Groups (revised 1/21) ._._. TeX source (ASCII readable; Greek letters defined) ._._. PDF format
• Course handouts
  • Main handout
  • Addendum (grading scheme and test dates)
  • Instructions for the Homework Review Generator
  • Polynomial questions
  • Homework 1
• Instructions for using WebCT Vista to check your homework and test grades.
• Just Say No to .doc files! How to get PDF or PostScript out of Word.
• Annoyed by the poor quality of your on-screen output from LyX? Here's what to do!
• TeX10x
  • LyX
  • TeX 101: Typing Mathematical Expressions
  • TeX 102: Simple Documents
• More sources of information about TeX
  • Information on the Web about putting math on the Web.
  • Information about DVI viewers. If you are unable to read the excellent homework papers of TeX users such as Chris Wood (M. 311, s00) and Andrew Barkley (M. 311, f98), you should read this!
  • On-line introductions to TeX. If you want to learn to use TeX yourself, here is free documentation!
• Old home pages (with tests and solutions!)
  • Spring 01 home page (See this for examples of reviews.)
  • Spring 04 Math. 311 home page (See this for examples of student-written solutions!)
  • Fall 03 home page (no peer review that semester)
  • Fall 98 home page (See this for examples of reviews.)

Homework by weeks:

1. problems ._. LaTeX file
   • assignments
   • solutions and reports
2. problems ._. LaTeX file
   • assignments
   • solutions and reports
3. problems ._. LaTeX file
   • assignments
   • solutions and reports
4. problems ._. LaTeX file
   • assignments
   • solutions and reports
5. problems ._. LaTeX file
   • assignments
   • solutions and reports
   • Test A answer key ._. and some really klutzy Maple verification of the solution I found for the extra credit problem.
6. problems ._. LaTeX file <-- Please see your Neo e-mail. On Exercises 5 and 6, doing the case of negative epsilon is not required! In Exercises 1 - 4, all fs should be ys.
   • assignments
   • solutions and reports
7. problems ._. LaTeX file
   • assignments
   • solutions and reports
8. problems ._. LaTeX file
   • assignments
   • solutions and reports
9. problems ._. LaTeX file
   • assignments
   • solutions and reports
10. problems ._. LaTeX file
    • assignments
    • solutions and reports
    • Test B answer key ._. Maple output will be put here later.
11. problems ._. LaTeX file
    • assignments
    • solutions and reports
12. problems ._. LaTeX file
    • assignments
    • solutions and reports
13. problems ._. LaTeX file
    • assignments
    • solutions and reports
14. problems ._. LaTeX file
    • solutions and comments
    • Final exam answer key

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