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Math
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 | Final is on Tuesday, 12/11 from 8-11am in the regular classroom. The final is comprehensive. Review materials are on eres. |
| Review Sessions for Final: 1) Friday, 11am-noon, BE 301B, with Vidya 2) Friday, 5-7pm, BE 301B, with Corey 3) Monday, 12/12, 9-10:30AM, BE 301B, with Frank |
| Midterm 2 results are posted under Math 19A on the left. Click on that and then "Exam Info" |
| On the catenary: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Catenary.html or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary |
| The Arch in St. Louis: http://www.nps.gov/jeff/planyourvisit/architecture.htm |
| Link to a research article on minimal surfaces
that relate to the catenary as one solution:
http://www.jstor.org/view/00255572/ap060387/06a00210/0 You have to access this from a UCSC account. |
| The applet for Taylor Polynomials: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~jrm/vander/stable/TPTest.html |
| HOMEWORK Problem numbers in both editions: From now on I will post the list of problems from both editions. See the page on homework with the details. Follow the "Math 19A" link on the left, then click "Homework" |
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Homework assignments are based on the lecture and the textbook. Homework will be assigned, submitted and graded on-line at http://west.ilrn.com/ilrn/. I will e-mail you the assignments as a PDF file or you can get them from the class web site or the http://west.ilrn.com/ilrn/ web site. First you need to sign up for an account on Ilrn and use the PIN E-GPE45G2VZG7C to get access to the homework for this class. More information about this is on the syllabus and will be given in class. The first homework is due Sunday, October 7th. You can download a PDF-file with similar questions here. |
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about how your on-line homework connects to your hardcopy textbook: the
problems are based directly off the book. To find the corresponding problem
in the book of a given homework problem, use the pdf file of similar
problems. At the end of each problem is a cryptic code that contains the
info: For instance, the first problem in the first assignment has code
stet06.02.01.01ab |
| HOMEWORK ACCESS: Since so many of you had problems with the access code for the homework based on the sixth edition of Stewart, and the quality of the solutions in the sixth edition homework was lousy (at least in the 2.2 section), I have decided to switch back to use the homework based on the 5th edition. This material is accessible without a content access code, so your course code alone will suffice to access the homework from now on. This content also has been around for a few years, so it is almost free of errors. I have placed the assignments for you on ILRN and the pdf's on the class web site; on ILRN it will say Fall 06 in the title, but that is irrelevant. There is now a new assignment on sections 2.1 and 2.2 available. You can either do the one based on the sixth edition or the one based on the fifth edition. I have also made both assignments extra credit (which will count towards to homework score). This does not mean you don't need to do them, but if you have finished your work on the pdf problems for the sixth edition, and have access issues for the homework of the sixth edition, you don't need to do the new assignment again unless you want the extra credit. Okay, so I hope we can now move beyond stupid technical issues and get back to studying Calculus! |
| For homework on section 2.2 off the 5th edition, ignore questions 2,3,and 6. |
| If you want to prepare yourself for the class,
review your
Algebra: particularly factoring, completing the square,
simplifying and rewriting all kinds of algebraic expression and solving all
kinds of equations. and Precalculus: particularly functions, inverse functions, graphs, trigonometry and trigonometric identities. There is an excellent on-line diagnostic test you are encouraged to take to assess areas of algebra/precalculus you might want to review: The link to the diagnostic test is: http://mdtp.ucsd.edu/OnLineTests.shtml If you need to review further, I have set up an on-line resource for you to do so. This is an excellent software product called ALEKS, and unfortunately using it will cost some money since it is produced by a company and not UCSC. The course code for precalculus review for Calculus is GTMHT-RUWLV and you enter this code where you sign up: http://www.aleks.com/sign_up Then you have to purchase access. Follow the link to do so, for instance 6 weeks access will cost $21 roughly. Send me an e-mail or come by during office hours if you have questions. Here is how this works: You take an assessment test at the beginning and let the program guide you to what you need to review. This is an excellent resource for independent review work. You can do some of this in part with our textbook by studying the sections in Chapter 1. |
| Mandatory discussion sections will start the second week of classes on Wednesday 10/3. More on all that in lecture. |
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Bäuerle, Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz.
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