Announcements:

On Tuesday May 1, we finished Section 5.5 and covered 5.6. You are responsible for doing the assigned exercises through Section 5.6.  We will do a few more examples from 5.6 on Thursday and the review for the final exam.  So come prepared with questions on material that might be on the final.

MAPLE Assignment #5. MAPLE assignment #5 is available below. It is due by the end of class on Thursday May 3. No late assignments will be accepted under any circumstances. Please note carefully the instructions on the assignment. You are permitted to work in groups of no more than three persons. If you work in a group then each member of the group must sign the printout that is turned in. If you do not sign the printout you will not get credit for the work. I will absolutely enforce this rule.  One more thing:  Please staple your assignment together before you turn it in.  No folding the corner.  No paper clips.  If you assignment is not stapled I will return it to you and you must staple it before it is late!

Final Exam.  The final exam in this class will be given on Thursday May 10, 10:30-1:15 in the same room where we have class.  A few comments about the final exam are in order:

• The final exam is cumulative but at least half of it will cover the material from Chapter 5.  The rest will be problems related to the material from Chapters 2-4.

• The following Sections will be omitted from the exam:  All of Chapter 1, Sections 2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 4.2 and 5.2.  What this means is that I will not ask a question on the exam based directly on the material from any of those sections.  You are expected to know material fro these sections to the extent that it is used in other sections.  For example, you are expected to know the laws of exponents and logarithms to the extent that they are used in other sections (like logarithmic differentiation) even though that material is from Chapter 1.

• A calculator is permitted for this exam.

• It is recommended that you study first the material from Chapter 5, then review Chapters 4, then 3 then 2.  You will find that the material from the earlier chapters is now much easier that it was at first and you should be able to successfully review that material more quickly.

• When you study it is recommended that you select problems from a given section or group of sections, write them down, then try to solve them without looking at the book or at the solutions manual.  To do well on the exam you must be able to solve problems in an exam setting.

Note on Exam 1.  There was an error on the answer key for Exam 1 (corrected in the link to the solutions below).  Consequently the last two parts of Problem 1 were marked wrong on virtually every exam.  I will correct for this by adding 6 points to every exam score.

Deadlines.  Please be aware of all relevant deadlines.  Details may be found here.

New exercises in Section 5.1.  There are no exercises assigned for Section 5.1 on the syllabus.  The exercises for that section are Section 5.1:  1-13 (odd).  The link below has been modified to show this change.  This change has also been made to the list of exercises linked below.

Uncollected Quizzes. All uncollected quizzes can be picked up at the office of the teaching assistant Catherine Sausville. If you do not pick up your quiz when they are returned in your recitation, you can pick it up there.

MAPLE information.  Here is a basic MAPLE tutorial courtesy of Prof. Sachs.  The Math Department  website also has some links for help with MAPLE here.  MAPLE version 10 is available in the computer labs in the Johnson Center and Innovation Hall.  Go here for locations and hours of operation.  Be sure to bring a floppy disk or flash drive when you visit these labs in order to save your work.