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Section 01 meets Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 1:10pm-2:00pm in Morton 226.
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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 266A 01 (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. 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)
Each of our six homework assignments will contain a component that will require the use of MATLAB. Six MATLAB handouts will explain these portions of the assignments. No prior knowledge of MATLAB is assumed. The goal of the six handouts will be to progressively build a set of MATLAB skills that students will find useful in their other classes and in research. Most of the MATLAB assignments will be designed to complement homework exercises from the textbook.
MATLAB 1: Creating Graphs for Exercise 1.2#42
MATLAB 2: Sequences
MATLAB 3: Graphs for Exercises 3.3#28 and 3.3#30d
MATLAB 4: Graph for Exercise 4.3#71
MATLAB 5: Graph for Exercise 5.1#49
MATLAB 6: Supporting Work for 5.4#22 and 5.6#16
Group Work 1: Limits and Continuity
Group Work 2: Missing Symbols
Group Work 3: Representations of Slopes
Group Work 4: Graphing a Cubic Polynomial
Midterm #1 was given in class on Friday, January 13. It covers Chapter 1 of the textbook, which is essentially a review of Algebra and Precalculus.
Midterm #2 was given in class on Friday, February 3. It covers Chapter 2 and 3 of the textbook.
Midterm #3 was given in class on Friday, February 17. It covers the first six sections of Chapter 4 of the textbook.
Midterm #4 was given in class on Friday, March 3. It covers the last two sections of Chapter 4 and the first three sections of Chapter 5 of the textbook.
The cumulative Final Exam was given on Thursday, March 16.
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