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Section 02 meets Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 1:10pm-2:00pm in Morton 227.
Office hours for the current quarter are posted on my web page.
The course information on this page mirrors the information posted on the course's Blackboard site. Students' grades are posted only on Blackboard.
Course Information Sheet link)
Syllabus (link)
Homework List (link)
We will not be using calculators in Math 266B 02 (Mark Barsamian's section) this quarter. (That is to say, we will not be using them in class or on the exams. Students are certainly welcome to use them at home.) But we will be using computers extensively. The programs that we will be using most frequently are MATLAB and Microsoft Excel, but we will use others, as well.
MATLAB is a computer program for mathematical computing, visualization, and programming. It is more powerful than a graphing calculator, much easier to use (there is extensive online help available), and produces output that can be printed or incorporated into other documents. The program is installed on computers in the following public computing sites:
Location and hours of Computer Labs Running MATLAB (link)
Microsoft Excel is a "spreadsheet" program that allows the user to set up tables containing data and mathematical calculations. It also can produce graphical output in a variety of forms, with the neat feature that the graphs are continually updated as the data in the accompanying table is changed. The program is part of the Microsoft Office package of programs, and is installed on hundreds of computers around campus.
Some of our six homework assignments will contain a component that will require the use of MATLAB or Excel, or some other computer program. The "Computer Project" handouts will explain these portions of the assignments. No prior knowledge of the computer programs is assumed. The goal of the handouts will be to progressively build a set of computer skills that students will find useful in their other classes and in research. Most of the Computer Projects will be designed to complement homework exercises from the textbook.
Computer Project 1:Pictures of Riemann sums In exercises 6.1#1, 3, 33, 36, and 37 from Homework 1, the students are asked to compute Riemann sums. In this first computer project, they produce pictures that will illustrate the written solutions to those exercises. (These pictures are meant to supplement a written solution; they are not a substitute.) The computer program that they will use is web-based, and is found on a page that is part of an interesting website called mathworld.
Computer Project 2: There was no computer project 2
Computer Project 3: Using MATLAB to Check Antiderivatives In Homework 3 exercises from section 7.3 of the textbook, the students are asked to find a number of difficult antiderivatives. For each assigned exercise, they produce a written solution that shows the steps that they used to find an antiderivative. In this computer project, the goal is for them to learn how to use MATLAB to check the results for those exercises. This computer project is not meant to be a substitute for a written solution.
Midterm #1 was given in class on Monday, April 17. It covers Sections 5.8 through 7.2 of the textbook.
Midterm #2 was given in class on Friday, April 18. It covers Sections 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, and 7.7 of the textbook.
Midterm #3 was given in class on Friday, May 12. It covers Sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 of the textbook.
Midterm #4 was given in class on Friday, May 26. It covers Sections 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4 of the textbook.
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