Office: Padelford C-544
Office hours and email
Jonathan Claridge
sections CA and CB
office hours: Tues 1-2, Wed 4-5 at the MSC
email:
onath at u dot washington dot edu
Midterm 1: Thursday, April 19
Midterm 2: Thursday, May 10
Final Exam: Saturday, June 2
Here is the updated grade record, with final exam scores and course grades. Let me know if you see any problems.
Here are the final exam stats: n=34, min 61, 1st quartile 80.25, median 87, 3rd quartile 90, max 100 (1 person).
Have a good summer!
Grading of the finals has commenced. I hope to have everything finished by the end of the week, and will holding office hours on Friday from 1-3 PM if you'd like to come by and see your exam. I will be updating the grade record, too, so you will be able to check your final exam results with that.
Here is the example from Friday's lecture, with an animation to illustrate it.
Answers to midterm 2 are now in my test archive.
Here is the grade record. Please check it, and let Jonathan know if any scores are recorded correctly. There is also an estimated current course grade.
Here is the curvature worksheet from last week. It is worth reviewing for the midterm.
I mistakenly said we were talking about chapter 15 today, but in fact that was chapter 14 material. We'll get to chapter 15 in a few weeks.
Here is a list of topics for the second midterm.
The set of all centers of curvature (or centers of circles of curvature) of a given curve form another curve called the evolute of the curve. A good piece of software for playing around with evolutes is the Planar Curve Explorer, a free piece of java software that does a nice job of plotting curves and their evolutes.
The software being developed in the mathematics department that I mentioned in class is SAGE. It is being developed by a group led by Prof. William Stein. Check it out if you are interested in mathematical software development.
Here is an animation showing the "spiral on a cone" from Tuesday's worksheet.
Here is some information on the idea of tangent spirals.
Here are solutions to the first midterm exam.
I made some applet for my curves seminar this quarter involving some parametrically defined plane curves. Feel free to check them out.
Here is a study guide for the first midterm.
Here are a couple more examples of the line/plane kind of problems we want to be able to deal with.
Check out this applet that illustrates Taylor polynomials for sin x. It requires a decent amount of CPU speed, Java, and a not tiny screen.
Welcome to Math 126C, Spring 2007.
This website will be updated with important information and announcements throughout the quarter, so check back often.
For the first two weeks, we'll be working from the Taylor notes, available here. The Taylor notes have five sections, and we'll be covering this material at the rate of approximately one section per lecture, but it might be helpful to read ahead a section.
The worksheet for Thursday this week is this one on linear approximation, and Newton's method.