Mathematics 412 (stacked honors), Sections 200/501, Fall 2007
Last updated Tue 18 Dec 2007
SKIP PAST THE ANNOUNCEMENTS if you so desire.
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Course procedures and announcements:
- Dec. 13:
- All the grades are now in Vista. Please read the related
information in the Dec. 12 announcement below!
- I corrected some errors in the grades for reviews (and a few homework
grades, too). Some reviews were
just overlooked; others were recorded in the wrong lines of the
spreadsheets. This means that some students' review scores went up a
few points while
a very few went down (because you had been credited with
somebody else's work). I made these changes only in the review total and
homework total columns, not in the columns for individual weeks. (If you
still have questions, come see me to look at your raw data.)
- Note the invitation (Dec. 11 announcement) to come see me and look at
your test.
- I'm still not able to SEND OR RECEIVE e-mail from my office computer.
- Dec. 12:
- I'm having e-mail trouble. If I haven't responded to your message,
it's because I haven't seen it yet.
- Grades will be posted soon (before noon on Thursday at latest).
- Final exam scores were disappointing
(median = 133, top = 197, four scores below 100).
Nevertheless, I stick with my statement that you were a very good class.
I curved the
course grades so that a total of
- 607 (86.7%) guarantees an A,
- 513 (73.3%) guarantees a B,
- 420 (60%) guarantees a C
-- without any curves on individual tests.
On the course totals, the median is 538 and the top is 732.
Of the 19 students who stayed in the course, nobody got D or F;
however, there were 9 drops, 6 of them after the first
hour test.
- Homework scores were multiplied by 150/220;
reviewing and class participation scores
were not scaled. Here are the distributions:
- Homework (before scaling), median = 199, high = 263.
- Reviews, median = 35, high = 40.
- Class, median = 7, high = 12.
- Dec. 11: The solution sheet for the final exam is linked below;
please read it.
Grades will be reported by Thursday morning at latest.
After Thursday noon you are welcome
to come by my office to see your exam
(not that I will be there often between now and
January 14).
- Dec. 5: All the homework (that I know of) has now been
processed. Papers will be returned at Thursday's review session, or you
can get them from me in my office. (I expect to be there between 1 and 2
on Thursday and at unpredictable times on Friday and Monday.)
Notice that the display of homework and reviews contains recent
(and fairly substantive)
updates for Weeks 3 (3.2.2), 7 (10.4.3), and 10 (2.5.6) as well as Weeks
11 and 12.
- Dec. 1: We agreed on review sessions at 8:00 p.m. on Monday
(12/3) and Thursday (12/6). Unless you hear or read otherwise, these will
be in BLOC 155 as usual.
- Nov. 28: Announcement of next Math Club
meeting
(Tuesday, December 4) -- actually an end-of-semester movie party, only
loosely math-related.
More information added 11/29.
- Nov. 26:Reviewers, return all homework in your possession at
the end of
Friday's class (Nov. 30) at the latest! That day we will meet in the lab
(BLOC 125) so that you can use the computers to finish your reviews, if
necessary. For those of you who will have already finished (most of you,
I hope) a variety of other fun activities will be available.
- Nov. 12: The 12th and last homework assignment is due Monday
Nov. 26. There will be no help session that evening (because the
room is reserved for something else).
- Nov. 5: Office hour tomorrow (Tues., 11/6) will start late.
- Oct. 22: No help session tonight. Solutions to Test B are now
posted below.
- Oct. 20: Tuesday office hour (10/23) may start a bit late.
- Oct. 16: Oops, ignore the announcement right below! (Except
for the room change.) Today's office hour will be at 3:00 as usual.
- Oct. 15: Once again, this week, Tuesday's office hour will be
at 2, not 3. Remember that henceforth our class will meet in BLOC 120.
- Oct. 8: This week, Tuesday's office hour will be at 2, not 3.
Wednesday's hour may start a bit late.
- Sep. 28: Maple demos are now installed below.
We will have an evening session Monday (10/1).
- Sep. 24:
- There is no evening review session this week.
- We will meet in the computer lab (BLOC 125) this Friday (9/28).
- Answers for Test A are posted below (corrected 9/25).
- By now you should be reading about Fourier transforms (pp. 49-... of
notes).
- Sep. 10: Corrections to homework assignment 2:
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The exercise to be done along with 12.5.4 should be 2.3.2(e).
(2.3.2(d) is also "related", but 2.3.2(e) is more directly related.
If you've already written something sensible about 2.3.2(d), that's OK.)
- In 12.5.3, L should be 10 (misprint in book).
- Sep. 10: We have BLOCKER 155 reserved for help and review
sessions on Mondays (except Nov. 26) 8:00-9:30 p.m.
- Sep. 8: Special schedule for week of Sept. 10-14:
- Monday, 9/10: Office hour at 2:00 as usual. Evening help
session at 8:00, BLOC 155.
- Tuesday, 9/11: Office hour cancelled.
- Wednesday, 9/12: Office hour moved to 2:00 (instead of 1:00).
- Friday, 9/14: Review session in class.
- Monday, 9/17: Test in class. Please remember to bring your own
paper for the test. No evening session that week.
- Sep. 3: Tonight is our first optional evening session, 8:00 in
BLOC 627: more about hreview, TeX, LyX. Revised group membership is
posted below. Also, note revised office hours.
Finally, I think the hreview alias problem has been solved; more on this
tonight and Wednesday.
- Aug. 25:
- This is a "stacked" section. That means that Honors students (Sec.
200) and regular students (Sec. 501) are in the same class (because not
enough Honors students signed up to make an Honors section).
The full implications of that will be discussed in class on Monday (Aug.
27).
- Classroom: CE 136 (NOT CE 134)
On Friday, August 31, we will meet in BLOC 125.
- Instructor: S. A.
Fulling (NOT M. Stecher)
Tentative office hours: M2, T3, W1 (BLOC 620H, 845-2237)
Email: fulling@calclab.math.tamu.edu
or fulling@math.tamu.edu
(I will explain the difference between these.)
- The first section of the class notes
(Please start reading!)
The complete notes will be available for purchase at Copy Corner
starting Thursday, August 30.
- Required textbooks:
- R. Haberman, Applied Partial Differential Equations with Fourier
Series and Boundary Value Problems, 4th edition, Prentice-Hall, 2004.
- S. A. Fulling, Math 412 lecture notes, for sale at Copy Corner (2307
Texas Ave.~S.).
Here is the first section of the notes,
but
do not expect this service in the future; you should buy the whole set at
Copy Corner. (The notes have not changed since last year.)
- Course handout
- Related information
- Word processing information
- Old M. 412 course pages (including exams with solutions)
- Old course pages with homework reviews ("Skip past the
announcements")
- The Fourier series Maple demos:
- See "Solutions for Test A" below.
- Triangle wave
- Square wave
- Sawtooth wave
- Animated version by Dakota Blair.
"The code can actually be copied verbatim for each file." (Modified 9/18)
- More Maple demos:
- Eigenvalues of a Robin Sturm-Liouville problem. Maple input and
output.
- Bessel functions and Fourier-Bessel series. Maple input and
output.
- Sample associated Legendre functions with either l or m equal to 8.
Mathematica output.
- Notes for extra "honors" lectures
- Miscellaneous extra material
Homework by weeks:
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Solutions for Test A
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command at the bottom of each page produces the plot on the NEXT page.)._.
Maple code
- assignments but 2.2.3 is too easy, so
let's add a Part (b) (revised 10/10)
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Solutions for Test B
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Solutions for Test C
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Solutions for Final Exam
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Information on how to get a
minor
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majors can qualify easily.
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