Syllabus and Course Information


Follow this link for advice from another professor about how to study for a mathematics exam. Not everything applies verbatim to our class, but he gives a lot of good advice.

The final exam for this course is scheduled for Monday, 12/17/2012 at 1:30pm-3:30pm; rooms to be announced.

Final Exam Information

The final exam for this course is scheduled for Monday, 12/17/2012 at 1:30pm-3:30pm in the following rooms:

  • Physics 170: Sections 11 and 13 (Kate Burgers, Denis Bashkirov)
  • Fraser 102: Sections 12, 14 and 15 (David Morawski, Maggie Ewing, Nick Switala)

Study materials

Reading & Homework Assignments

Last updated on 12/13/12.

Note: The links in the reading schedule are for any available lecture notes, and the occasional external website. The lecture notes are scanned PDFs. I compress them before posting them on the website, which reduces their file size to less than 5% of the original (!) but does tend to make them fuzzy. (Let me know if something is too hard to read.) They should suffice for double-checking something in your notes, but I wouldn't recommend trying to read them as your primary source of information for the course.

Week OfReadingHomeworkDueSolutions

9/3 Section 1 Skills: 1.4, 1.10(c,e,g,i,j; briefly explain), 1.12 9/11 pdf
Writing: 1.14(d,e,f) and 2.12, 2.14 (added on 9/10) 9/13 pdf

9/10 Section 2 Skills: 2.4, 3.3, 3.6(j-m), 3.7(f,h), 4.12, 4.13(a,b) 9/18 pdf
Sections 3 & 4 Writing: 3.8, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20
Note: In 4.16, assume x is a positive real number.
9/20 pdf

9/17 Section 5 Skills: 5.4, 5.5, 5.6(a,c,e), 5.7, 5.16 9/25 pdf
Section 6 Writing: 5.24, 5.25, 6.10 9/27 pdf

9/24 Section 6 Skills: 6.11(e-h), 6.12(d-f), 6.20, 6.23, 6.25, 6.26 10/2 pdf
Section 7 (No Writing Quiz; Exam 1 on 10/4/12)

10/1 Section 7 Skills: 7.5, 7.7(a,b,d), 7.9, 7.10, 7.15(a,b,d) 10/9 pdf
Section 8 (partial) Takehome Writing Problem #1 10/11 pdf

10/8 Section 8 (finish) Skills: 8.4, 8.10, 10.6, 10.7, 10.15 10/16 pdf
Section 10 Writing: 10.4, 10.13, 10.16, 10.19, 10.22 10/18 pdf

10/15 Section 11 Skills: 11.3(a,c,e), 11.6, 11.7, 11.11. 10/23 pdf
Section 12 Writing: 12.5, 12.6, 12.10 (Hint: use Theorem 12.12) 10/25 pdf

10/22 Section 13 Skills: 12.3(e,n), 12.4(e,n), 13.3(a,b,c), 13.4(a,b,c) 10/30 pdf
Writing Problems (pdf) 11/1 pdf

10/29 Section 14 Skills: 13.7(a,b,c), 13.10, 14.4 (Use Heine-Borel) 11/6 pdf
Section 16 (start) No writing problems and fewer skills problems:
Use the time to study for the test!
(Exam on 11/8/12)

11/5 Section 16 (finish) Skills: 16.6(a), 16.6(b) [Can use Theorem 16.8 on (b)], 16.10 11/13 pdf
Section 17 Takehome Writing Problem #2 11/15

11/12 Section 18 Skills: 17.3(a), 17.6, 17.8, 17.15(c), 18.3(a,d), 18.4 11/20 pdf
Section 32 (Start) (No writing quiz on Thanksgiving, 11/22....)

11/19 Section 32 Skills: 16.7 (May Use Thm 17.1, 17.7), 18.10, 32.5(b,c,e,g,h) 11/27 pdf
Writing Practice: 17.7, 18.11, 18.12, 32.8 11/29

11/26 Section 33 Takehome Writing Problem #3
Note the different schedule!
12/4
No writing problems; study for Exam #3.

12/3 Section 34 Skills: 33.3(a,e,i), 33.5(b,c,d), 33.6, 34.3(a,c,e) 12/11 pdf

12/10 Review for Final Exam

12/17 Final Exam: Monday 12/17 at 1:30pm
See above for location, old exams, etc.

Office Hours

All of the instructors in Math 3283W have agreed to hold common office hours, meaning you can attend any teaching assistant's office hours, regardless of which section of the class you are in. Besides Professor Rogness, whose office is in Vincent 4, the rest of the instructors will hold their office hours in Vincent 502.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9am-10am Nick Switala David Morawski Nick Switala David Morawski
10am-11am Discussion Discussion
11am-12pm Lecture Discussion Lecture Discussion Lecture
12pm-1pm Prof Rogness
(From 12:15-2:15)
1pm-2pm Denis Bashkirov
2pm-3pm Maggie Ewing
(From 2:00-4:00)
Kate Burgers Denis Bashkirov (2:15-3:15) Kate Burgers
3pm-4pm

(Office hours will start during the second week of class.)

Exams

Gradelines

We record your numeric scores, not letter grades, but to give you an idea of how you're doing in the class I will post approximate after exams. If the A line is 90, that means 90 is the lowest score in the A range, so it's the lowest A-. 89 would be the highest B+ in that situation.

Exam 1 Exam 2 Exam 3
A 90 90 90
B 80 80 80
C 68 60 60
D 55 45 50

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