Final Exam: Friday Apr. 29, 08:00 - 09:50 Thackeray Hall 704
See below for the information about the second homework, second quiz and the midterm exam schedule.
Graded problems for the first homework are listed below in bold.
Topics to be covered on the second midterm exam:
First midterm exam: February 18 in class. Mean: 68.6, Median: 68. Solutions
Second midterm exam: March 30 in class.
Final exam: Solutions
Sections 10.1-10.7
Section 10.8 (without curvature)
Section 10.9 (without tangentional and normal components of accelerattion)
Section 9.5. We went very briefly over the material, but you should read the section very carefully to learn details.
Section 10.9 Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Sections 11.1-11.4.
Some logic.
You have to submit solutions to all of the problems, but only selected problems will be graded. The selection of what problems will be graded will be announced after the due date. They will simply be highlighted in the bold font.
Exercise 1.2.4 means Exercise 4 at the end of Section 1.2.
HW#1: (Due date: Thursday January 20, recitations)
10.1.16,
10.2.24,
10.3.20, 10.3.36, 10.3.40, 10.3.45(b),
10.4.16, 10.4.26, 10.4.36.
HW#2 (Due date: Thursday January 27, recitations)
9.5.12,
10.5.30, 10.5.40, 10.5.51,
10.6.34
10.7.54(a), 10.7.56, 10.7.66,
10.9.16, 10.9.26,
Additional (obligatory) problem
HW#3 (Due date: Tuesday, February 15, recitations)
Quizzes
No makup quizzes, but the lowest two scores from the quizzes will be dropped (that allows you to miss two quizzes without penalty). Each quiz problem will be graded in the scale 0-2. 2 if a solutions is more or less correct. 1 if it is not really a solution, but the ideas are correct. 0 otherwise.
Quiz #1: Thursday, January 20. Sections 10.1-10.4. The quiz will consist of two problems taken directly from the homework.
Quiz #2: Thursday, January 27. Sections 10.5-10.9. There will be two problems. They will be based on examples discussed in class.
Quiz #3: Thursday, February 3. Section 11.1 and partial differential equations.
Quiz#4: Thursday, February 10. Functions of several variables: continuity, partial derivatives, differentiability, tangent plane.
Important links
The University of Pittsburgh Calculus