Sarah Gilles
Midterm 1: April 24
Midterm 2: May 22
Final Exam: Saturday, June 7
1:30-4:20 PM, MEB 248
Here is the updated grade record with final exam scores and course grades.
Thanks for being part of this honors calculus sequence. I have greatly enjoyed working with all of you.
Have a good summer!
Special post-final office hour: Friday, June 13, 1-2 PM for viewing of final exams.
Here are some solutions and answers to some old 126 final exams (thanks to Dr. Taggart):
Here is the grade record. Be sure to check that all of your scores have been recorded correctly. There is also a current estimated course grade. I haven't decided on a definite grade curve (i.e., the method of translating each student's percentage to a 0-4.0 grade), so things might change, but this will give you some idea of how you are doing before the final.
Answers to the second midterm are here.
Here are the scores from the second midterm exam:
19,32,36,38,38,40,41,47,47,47,48,48,49,50,50,50,52,53,53,54,54,54,54,55,55,58,58,58,58
and here are some stats:
n=29; min=19; 1st quartile=47; median=50; 3rd quartile=54; max=58 (4 people)
Here are the answers to the review problems for midterm 2.
Here is a set of review problems for the second midterm. Answers should be appearing later (i.e., in a few days).
The worksheet for this Tuesday is this one. Please bring a copy to class.
Here is an applet I just wrote to illustrate the equiangular spiral concept.
Here are a couple of examples of the kinds of problems involving lines and planes.
Here are the scores from the first midterm exam:
28,33,43,44,46,47,48,49,49,51,51,53,53,55,56,57,58,58,61,64,65,66,66,66,72,73,76,80,80
As you can see, there's quite a range. Certainly if you scored under 50 you should be concerned.
For Tuesday, the worksheet is this one.
I removed a few problems from the current homework assignment since we didn't get to talk about vector projections today.
Here is a set of review problems (taken from old exams). Here are some solutions.
I've added a link to my 126 exam archive in the right-hand column. The 2002 exams are probably not worth looking at, and the other exams were based on a different syllabus than the one we're using. Primarily use the 2006-2007 exams for examples of Taylor series/polynomial questions.
Here is a study guide for the first midterm.
Here is a brief discussion of that "tangent spiral" idea from today's lecture.
Here is a little bit on that strange Taylor series behavior of e^(-1/x^2).
No worksheet for this Tuesday. The homework problems should make for a plenty busy quiz section.
I have updated the homework assignment for Friday. I removed several problems at the end of it. Those problems will be due next week.
Here is a complete statement of the first writing problem. It looks like a lot of steps, but some are very quick.
Writing Problem #1: Suppose that f(x) and all of its derivatives are defined for all x.
UPDATE: You may find it easier to do steps 3 and 4, and then steps 1 and 2. If you want to do it that way, that is okay.
Here is the worksheet for this Tuesday.
This year's Honors Research Colloquium will be May 8th, 6-8 pm in MGH 211 (Honors Office).
Abstracts are due 4/7 for presenters, see here for an application.
Please print this worksheet for tomorrow's quiz section.
Also, here is an applet giving a bit of a hands-on kind of feel to this whole Taylor polynomial idea.
For the first two weeks, we'll be working on the material covered in the Taylor Notes, instead of the text. This material is actually in out text, but it treats the subject much more generally than we have time for. You might like to read about in the text anyway, to get another perspective.
Welcome to Math 126 C, Spring quarter 2008.
Announcements and other useful things will be posted here during the quarter, so check this site frequently.