MA 114

Spring 2006 information

• Meeting times: MTWR 18:00-19:15 CB 339
• Office hours: MTWR 17:00-17:45 Mathskeller
• Announcements
• Syllabus
• Homework
• Quizzes
• Study guides and related materials
• Exams

Announcements

Note (17 April, 2006): In class we decided to permit late 3-point homeworks (for up to one-half credit). Remember that if a 3-point homework is late but less than a week late you only lose one point.

Note (13 April, 2006): Here's a tentative schedule for the rest of the term:

• Thursday, 13 April: 11.1 (Parametric equations)
• Monday, 17 April: 11.2 (Calculus with parametric curves)
• Tuesday, 18 April: 11.3 (Polar coordinates); HW 22 due
• Wednesday, 19 April: 12.10 (Taylor series)
• Thursday, 20 April: 12.10 continued; HW 21 due; Quiz 8
• Monday, 24 April: 10.3 (Separable differential equations)
• Tuesday, 25 April: 10.3, continued; HW 23 due
• Wednesday, 26 April: 10.4 (Exponential growth and decay)
• Thursday, 27 April: HW 24 due; Quiz 9
• Monday, 1 May: Final exam from 18:00 to 20:00, covering sections 7.1, 7.2*, 7.3*, 7.4*, 7.5, 7.7, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.8, 9.1, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, and 12.10. The final exam will have at least eight but not more than ten questions.

Note (12 April, 2006): In class we discussed the exam and a potential replacement exam. It was very important for you to come to class that day.

Syllabus

• current syllabus (as of 5 March, 2006)
• syllabus as of 18 February, 2006
• original syllabus

Homework

1. Homework 1: section 5.5, #8, 18, 32, 46, 64 (Tuesday, 17 January, 2006)
2. Homework 2: section 7.1*, #2, 5, 6, 16, 21, 22, 26, 35, 36 (Thursday, 19 January, 2006)
3. Homework 3: section 7.2*, #4, 8, 12, 20, 60; section 7.3*, #4, 8, 10, 32, 36, 40, 48, 50 (Wednesday, 25 Thursday, 26 January, 2006)
4. Homework 4: section 7.4*, #3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 18, 27, 28, 30, 35, 36, 39, 41, 42 (Thursday, 26 Monday, 30 January, 2006)
5. Homework 5: Writing assignment #1 solution (Tuesday, 31 January, 2006)
6. Homework 6: section 7.5, #19, 27, 28, 32, 36, 39, 50, 59, 64, 68, 70, 71 (Tuesday, 31 January, 2006)
7. Homework 7: section 7.7, #7, 17, 57, 77, 87 (Wednesday, 1 February, 2006)
8. Homework 8: Writing assignment #2 solution (Tuesday, 21 February, 2006)
9. Homework 9: section 8.1, #1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 20, 34, 41 (Monday, 13 Tuesday, 14 February, 2006)
10. Homework 10 Extra credit opportunity #1: section 8.1, #44 (Tuesday, 14 February, 2006)
11. Homework 10: section 8.2, #1, 2, 17, 46, 63, 64; section 8.3, #5, 6, 10 (Thursday, 16 February, 2006)
12. Extra credit opportunity #2: Find a good way to evaluate the integral of the secant function. (Thursday, 23 February, 2006)
13. Homework 11: section 8.3, #12, 13, 14, 18, 26, 34, 38, 39, 40 (Tuesday, 21 February, 2006)
14. Homework 12: section 8.4, #1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 13, 14, 45, 49, 50 (Thursday, 23 February, 2006)
15. Homework 13: Writing assignment #3 (Thursday, 9 March, 2006)
16. Homework 14: section 8.8, #1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 18, 24, 61; section 12.1, #4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 (Tuesday, 28 March, 2006 Wednesday, 1 March, 2006)
17. Homework 15: section 12.1, #16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 35, 36, 54, 55, 56, 59; section 12.2, #9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24 (Thursday, 2 March, 2006)
18. Homework 16: section 12.3, #11, 12, 18, 21, 29, 32, 38, 39; section 12.4, #2, 6, 16, 29, 39, 40, 44 (Wednesday, 22 March, 2006 Thursday, 23 March, 2006)
19. Homework 17: section 12.5, #2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24, 31, 35 (Tuesday, 28 March, 2006)
20. Homework 18: section 12.6, #29, 31, 32, 33, 37; section 12.8, 3, 4, 7, 8, 16, 23, 28, 30, 35; section 12.9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 35; (Thursday, 30 March, 2006 Tuesday, 4 April, 2006)
21. Homework 19: section 9.1, #2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 33, 37 (Thursday, 6 April, 2006)
22. Homework 20: Read section 11.1, then do problems 1, 2, 3, and 4 from that section. (Thursday, 13 April, 2006)
23. Homework 21: Writing assignment #4 (Thursday, 20 April, 2006)
24. Homework 22: section 11.1, #12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 22, 24, 26, 28, 38, 40, 41 (Tuesday, 18 April, 2006)
25. Homework 23: section 11.2, #3, 4, 8, 14, 26, 30, 32, 37, 40, 43, 44, 57, 58, 59, 69, 73, 74; section 11.3, #16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26; section 12.10, #4, 8, 16, 20, 56 (Tuesday, 25 April, 2006)
26. Homework 24: section 10.3, #3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 35, 36, 39, 40, 44 (Thursday, 27 April, 2006)
27. Suggested problems: section 10.4, #3, 11, 12, 17, 21, 22

Quizzes

1. Quiz 1 solution (Thursday, 19 January, 2006)
2. Quiz 2 solution (Thursday, 2 February, 2006)
3. Quiz 3 solution (Thursday, 16 February, 2006)
4. Quiz 4 solution (Thursday, 23 February, 2006)
5. Quiz 5 solution (Thursday, 2 March, 2006)
6. Quiz 5 (make-up) solution (Thursday, 9 March, 2006)
7. Quiz 6 solution (Thursday, 30 March, 2006)
8. Quiz 6 (make-up) (Tuesday, 4 April, 2006)
9. Quiz 6 (make-up #2) (Monday, 10 April, 2006)
10. Quiz 7 solution (Thursday, 6 April, 2006)
11. Quiz 7 (make-up) (Monday, 10 April, 2006)
12. Quiz 7 (make-up #2) (Tuesday, 11 April, 2006)
13. Quiz 8 (Thursday, 20 April, 2006)
14. Quiz 9 (Thursday, 27 April, 2006)

Study guides and related materials

1. Study guide for exam 1: part 1 part 2
2. An extended example of partial fraction decomposition
3. Study guide for exam 2: sample exam
4. A sequence problem involving a recurrence relation
5. Study guide for exam 3: sample exam. Note: This study guide may take you more than 75 minutes to complete.

Exams

1. Exam 1 solutions (Tuesday, 7 February, 2006)
2. Exam 1 (make-up) solutions (Tuesday, 14 February, 2006)
3. Exam 2 solutions (Tuesday, 7 March, 2006)
4. Exam 3 (Tuesday, 11 April, 2006)
5. Exam 4 (Monday, 1 May, 2006)