May 18, 2002:
Thanks to everyone for a great semester, and for doing such
good work on the final exam.
For those who are interested, the
final exam solutions
are available from the
Resources
page.
May 7, 2002:
We will have a Review Session
on Thursday, May 9, from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in 120 Clapp, our usual
classroom.
My Thursday office hours this week will be from 1:00 to 2:30,
instead of 3:30 to 5:00.
May 5, 2002:
The Final Exam is comprehensive. It will include material from
all three hour exams, plus some additional material we covered in
class after Hour Exam 3. There are practice problems on this newest
material on the
Resources page.
As with Hour Exam 3, you will be allowed to use one sheet of notes on
the final exam. Be prepared to hand in your note sheet with your test.
May 1, 2002:
If you want to know how to
graph a power series
on your graphing calculator, check out these
examples.
(The examples page is also available from
the
Resources page.)
April 22, 2002:Hour Exam 3 will be
available after class on Thursday, April 25, and will be due by
5:00 pm on Friday, April 26. The Practice Exam is
available from the
Resources page.
You can use a single "cheat sheet" for this test;
see the instructions with the practice exam for details.
April 17, 2002:
There's a program running on the web server that's adding up the
terms of the Harmonic series at about 20 terms per second. Will the
partial sums reach 20 by the end of the semester?
You can check the counter's progress from the
Resources page.
April 9, 2002:
The homework from sections 12.1 and 12.2 is on the
Homework page.
Sorry I didn't have the assignment with me in class this morning.
March 25, 2002:Hour Exam II is scheduled for the end of this week.
It will be a self-timed, take-home exam, to be completed sometime
between the end of Thursday morning's class meeting and Friday at
5:00 pm. There is a Practice Exam available from the
Resources page.
Let me know if you find any errors in the Practice Exam.
March 14, 2002:
We will not meet this Friday, March 15, 2002.
Enjoy your spring break.
February 20, 2002:
We will not meet this Friday, February 22, 2002.
Also, I won't be holding office hours on Thursday, February 21.
February 19, 2002:
The
Connecticut Valley Colloquium
math talk and dinner will take place here at
Mt. Holyoke on Wednesday, February 20.
There's pizza at 6:00 in 416 Clapp, and
a lecture at 7:00 in 101 Dwight.
February 18, 2002:Practice Exam #1 is available (as a PDF) on
the Resources page.
February 12, 2002:
The evening help sessions are off and running,
Sunday through Thursday evenings in 401 or 402 Clapp.
Although any of the help session staff should be able to help with
your homework, two staffers will be following our section
particularly. They are Lin Lin (Monday and Wednesday) and
Marisa Leong (Tuesday and Thursday).
February 12, 2002:
The bookstore people have reminded us that
the unsold textbooks will be returned to the publisher
at the end of this week.
February 1, 2002:
You can find the solution to Quiz 1
on the
Resources page.
January 31, 2002:
There's a list
of handouts (with links to PDF versions of same)
on the
Resources page.
The first-day handouts were