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Things to do
Do the reading and the problems in the syllabus.

Hand in the following on Monday, November 16
    The writeups for the ninth workshop;
10.1: 36, 40
10.2: 40, 45

If you hand in this work next Monday, I hope we can return graded assignments on Wednesday to help in preparing for the next exam. This should also help you prepare for your physics and chemistry exams. Good luck! Our schedule for the next few days:

  • Monday, November 9: finish current considerations about sequences; move on to series (10.2).
  • Wednesday, November 11: More about series (10.2 amd 10.3).
  • Thursday, November 12: NO CLASS (football-induced vacation).
  • Monday, November 16: More about series (10.3, moving on to 10.4).
  • Wednesday, November 18: Review for exam.
  • Thursday, November 19: Second exam, in class, Review material to be posted soon. The exam will cover up to an including material discussed on Wednesday, November 11 (lectures 11 through 20).
    Here is possibly more review material than any sane person would want, but diligent students may wish to study much of it (some of it?).

Other class material

Title
(with PDF links)
What is it?Handed out
or posted
The ninth workshop Please hand in N problem solutions written by teams of N students, where 1≤N≤3. 11/7/2009
Review material for the second exam 11/12/2009
More pictures Here are some pictures which are in response to problem #5 on workshop 5. The pictures show some logistic curves (solutions to the logistic equation) with very different "time scales" than we're used to. They also show how useful the idea of linear approximation is (thus leading into Taylor approximation!). 11/3/2009
The eighth workshop Please hand in N problem solutions written by teams of N students, where 1≤N≤3. 10/23/2009
The seventh workshop Please hand in N problem solutions written by teams of N students, where 1≤N≤3, although a team of students who solve all of the problems is a neat idea.
There is an interesting trig identity in problem 29 of section 11.4 which might help with problem 4. Heh, heh.
10/23/2009
Absolute value and some trigonometric (!) approximations This is a brief glimpse of a theme many of you will see in more advanced courses and in applications. I wanted to mention this after the presentations of Mr. Rusnak (problem 1 in workshop 5) and Ms. Jou (problem 3 in workshop 4). These are interesting problems. 10/23/2009
The sixth workshop Please hand in N problem solutions written by teams of N students, where 1≤N≤3.
Working together, we were able to escape the classroom maybe 3 minutes early! Remember, there is a "me" in "team". ALso an "eat" and a "tea" and ...
10/19/2009
Answers to the first exam Here are detailed answers to the first exam. Please tell me any comments or corrections. Copies of the answers will be returned with graded exams in lecture on Monday, October 12.
Here is a discussion of the grades and grading.
10/12/2009
The first exam Here is a version of the first exam, in a somewhat more compact format. Graded exams will be returned in lecture on Monday, October 12.10/12/2009
The fifth workshop Please hand in N problem solutions written by teams of N students, where 1≤N≤3.
The missing "=1" noted by Mr. Oakes (thank you!) in problem 4 (the ellipse problem), which was stolen by interstellar villains, has been put back.
10/2/2009
Review material for the first exam 9/25/2009
The fourth workshop Please hand in N problem solutions written by teams of N students, where 1≤N≤3. 9/25/2009
The third workshop Please hand in N problem solutions written by teams of N students, where 1≤N≤3.
I thank Mr. Kotikalapudi (problem 2) and Mr. Priestner (problem 4) for presenting solutions.
One of my goals is that you to learn to solve as many of these problems as possible. Yes, it is easy to do the third problem, and you can do this, but not learning about some of the other problems (even by checking other students' solutions) means that you are missing an excellent opportunity.
9/21/2009
The second workshop Teams of two people should each hand in two writeups. The team members are jointly responsible for what is handed in.
I thank Mr. Patel (problem 2) and Ms. Arya (problem 4) for presenting solutions.
9/12/2009
The first workshop Please hand in two writeups to any of these problems on Wednesday, September 9. The pdf linked here has an example of a writeup, in addition to the comments on this writeup link.
Some hints (responses to e-mail questions) are here.
I thank Ms. Jeschke (problem 1) and Mr. Sakhamuri (problem 4) for presenting solutions.
9/5/2009
Information sheet Information sheet handed out at the first lecture. 1/23/2009
I've taught Math 152 a large number of times before. I hope that finally this semester I will learn the material and move on. The most recent occasions were the spring 2008 and spring 2009 semesters. The course material for those semesters is most relevant to what we will do but the H exams may be somewhat more challenging. I'll probably copy much of what I lecture about from a year ago, so you can look there if you'd like to anticipate my efforts.

Here are links to the course material for those instantiations. The material, which is quite extensive, includes exams with solutions, review material, and a course diary.

Math 152, spring 2009   Math 152, spring 2008  

Heros of language!
These students have contributed to my knowledge of the weirdness of English, and I thank them.
  • Mr. Levi who helped me understand grackle and obstacle.
  • Mr. Dolinski who helped both with grackle/obstacle and with wound/wound.
  • Ms. Jou who told me about wound and wound and additionally introduced me to the word heteronym.


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