Math-20B, Summer-July-2015. NEWS
Welcome
aboard.
1.
A remark on grading: The quizzes
will be taken into account in a capacity of 60%; the final - 40%. I reserve a
right to change it but only in favor of students (say, 70-30 if the final
turns out to be tough).
The home works will be collected and “watched”, the fact will be recorded
but I will not grade them. Whether a student did the HWs will be taken
into account in a “boundary case" when the final grade is not clear.
However, a student should realize that
It will
be very hard to write quizzes and the final without doing the HWs.
2.
The
first quiz will
be on Friday, July 10 and concern the material of Section 5.2-6 and 6.1-3, and
respectively the HW 1-2. The problems will be close to those in the HWs. Students may have a one-page one-sided “cheat sheet”.
Please, solve all problems from your HW assignment!
3.
I
recommend starting the HW 3 not waiting for the Friday quiz because the next
quiz will be on Wednesday.
4.
The
second quiz will
be on Wednesday, July 15 and concern the material of the HWs 3-4. The problems will be close to
those in the HWs. I will talk about the quiz in more detail on Monday in class.
Students may have a one-page
one-sided “cheat sheet”. Please, solve
all problems from your HW assignment!
5.
Students may (though do not have to)
write corrections for Quiz 1 on a separate sheet and turn it in on Friday
attached (stapled) to the original Quiz 1. In the case corrections are correct, I will add 20% of
the points lost.
6.
On Wednesday, July 15, there will be
morning office hours at 9:55 am – 10:55am.
7.
Students may (though do not have to)
write corrections for Quiz 2
on a separate sheet and turn it in on Monday attached (stapled)
to the original Quiz 2. In the case corrections are correct, I will add 25% of the points lost.
8.
The
third quiz will
be on Friday, July 24 and concern the material of Sections 7.1-3, 5-6 and
respectively, the
HWs 5-6. The problems in the quiz will be close to those in the HWs. Students
may have a one-page one-sided “cheat sheet”.
Please, solve all problems from your HW assignment! Please ask questions
me or Robert! We will not have a morning office hour on Friday, so I strongly
recommend you to finish the HWs by Wednesday to be able to ask questions
arising on the Wednesday after-the-lecture office hour.
9.
The third quiz has been written
better than the previous quizzes. Nevertheless, it would be just useful for
students if they work on their mistakes and do corrections. This is not
mandatory but people who will turn in their corrections on Wednesday will get
20% of the points lost.
10. Depending on our pace, we may have a short Quiz 4 on Wednesday. Please, be ready. If it happens, the quiz will concern Sections 10.1-5 and the HWs 7-8.
11.
We will have Quiz
4 on Wednesday. It will
contain only two problems on the convergence-divergence of series and will last
20 min: 10 min. for each problem. I
recommend to go through the list of all tests we know including the divergence test.
12.
Our TA, Robert Snellman,
will not run Friday office hours, but instead he will give a
review session from 3-5pm on Saturday in AP&M 6341. Students are welcome to
attend the entire session, or they can come and go as they please.
13. People
who want to have extra credit for Quiz 4 amounting to a quarter of the points
lost, can solve these additional
problems and turn them in before the final.
14. The
final will be comprehensive with emphasis on topics we did
not cover by the quizzes. Students are allowed to bring one two-sided sheet of
notes and a calculator. I recommend to look over all
topics we considered. In particular, do
not miss
(a)
Integration technique: substitution,
integration by parts, special technique for trigonometric integrals, partial
fraction technique, etc.
(b)
Volumes of solids.
(c)
Problems on complex numbers we solved
in class and in the HW.
(d)
Improper integrals.
(e)
Convergence/Divergence tests for
series (a good idea to consider the list of them).
(f)
Powers series.
(g)
Taylor expansions.
15.