Current reading and homework assignments

• Due Tuesday, 30 April
  Reading:
  • Lecture of 23 April
  • Lecture of 25 April
  • In addition to MT, don't forget Cain-Herod
  Exercises:
  
  • Work problems from the the bank of old tests, and the review exercises from the past chapters of MT.
  Study breaks:
  
  • The video from Thursday
  • Send suggestions for other mathy study breaks!

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  Current contests

  Note about contest entries. These must be entirely your own work and not, for example, copied from the Web, even in modified form, which would be an honor code violation.

  Unless otherwise specified, entries should be submitted to the professor, either in hard copy or by e-mail in a universally readable format, such as pdf.

Past reading and homework assignments

• Due Monday, 6 January
  Reading:
  • MT, Chapter 1, on properties of vectors.
• Due Monday, 13 January
  Reading:
  • MT, Chapter 2, on properties of vectors
  • Lecture of 7 January
  Exercises:
  NOTE: DUE TO MY TRAVELS I HAVE ONLY THE OLD EDITION OF M-T. IN CASE THE ASSIGNMENT NUMBERS HAVE CHANGED, SNAPSHOTS ARE INCLUDED HERE. Sorry! - EH
  • MT, 5th Ed., Exercises 1.2 #12-15
  • MT, 5th Ed., Exercises 1.2 #18,19
  • MT, 5th Ed., Chapter 1 Review Exercises #6,14
  • MT, 5th Ed., Exercises 2.4 #1-3,7-10
• Due Tuesday, 22 January
  NOTE: There was a test on Wednesday, 23 January
  Reading:
  • MT, Chapter 2 - material about functions of more than one variable and partial derivatives will be discussed this week, but will not appear on Wednesday's test.
  • MT, Section 4.2
  • Lecture of 14 January
  • Optional - the Mathematica notebook that was the source for some calculations in that lecture
  • Lecture of 16 January
  • Lecture of 22 January
  Exercises (for test prep, not to be graded):
  • MT (6th ed.), Chapter 1 Review Exercises #1-6
  • MT, Exercises 2.4, #7-14,18,20-23.
  • MT, Exercises 4.2, #4-10, 17-23 (in fact some of these will be done in lecture)..
  • Work the problems on one of Prof. H's old tests. (More of these are to be found in the bank of old tests
  Study break
  • In case you think intersections of lines aren't cool, look at this video
• Due Monday, 28 January
  Reading:
  • MT, Sections 2.1-2.3
  • Lecture of 22 January
  • Lecture of 24 January
  • Solutions to the test of 23 January.
  • Chapter 8 of Cain-Herod
  Exercises:
  • MT, Exercises 2.1, #2,3,5,6,13,27-32.
  • MT, Exercises 2.2, #3,4.
• Due Monday, 4 February
  Reading:
  • MT, Chapter 2
  • Lecture of 29 January
  • Lecture of 31 January
  Exercises:
  • MT, Exercises 2.3, #2,4,5,8,19.
  • MT, Exercises 2.5, #3,6,13,20.
  • MT, Exercises 2.6, #2-4,7,10,13,22,27.
• Due Monday, 11 February
  NOTE: There was a test on Wednesday, 13 February
  Reading:
  • MT, Chapter 3 through Section 3.3
  • Lecture of 5 February
  • Lecture of 7 February
  • Lecture of 12 February
  • Chapters 7, 8, and 9 (especially the supplementary material), of CH.
  Exercises (for test prep, not graded):
  • MT, Exercises 3,1, #7,8,14-16.
  • MT, Exercises 3.2, #3-9.
  • MT, Exercises 3.3, #1-5,14,17,19,25,28,29,38,41,42.
  • The exercises in 7, and 8, of CH could also be instructive.
  • Don't forget the bank of old tests.
• Due Monday, 18 February
  
  Reading:
  • MT, Sections 3.4, 3.5
  • Lecture of 12 February
  • Lecture of 14 February
  • Chapter 8 of CH
  • Solutions to the test of 13 February.
  Exercises:
  • MT, Exercises 3,4, #2-7,20-22,29
  • MT, Exercises 3.5, #1-3.
• Due Monday, 25 February
  
  Reading:
  • MT, Sections 3.4, 1.4, 4.3, 4.4
  • Solutions to the test of 13 February.
  • Lecture of 19 February
  • Lecture of 21 February
  Exercises:
  • MT, Exercises 1.4, #3-5, 7,10,13
  • What is the air distance between Atlanta and Mt. Kinabalu? (Look up latitudes and longitudes and make a calculation)
  • MT, Exercises 4.3, #2,5,6,10,12,13
  • Find the line (y=mx+b) that is the best fit for the following data, in the least-square sense: (0,1), (2,4), (3,4), (5,6)
• Due Tuesday, 5 March
  
  Reading:
  • MT, Sections 4.4, 5.1-5.5
  • Lecture of 26 February
  • Lecture of 28 February
  Exercises:
  • MT, Exercises 4.4, #2-5,14,16,19-21,
  • MT, Exercises 5.1, #1,2,6
  • MT, Exercises 5.2, #2,3,11
  • MT, Exercises 5.3, #1-3,8
• Due Wednesday, 13 March
  NOTE: There was a test on this date.
  Reading:
  • MT, Sections 4.4, 5.1-5.5
  • Lecture of 5 March
  • Lecture of 7 March
  • Lecture of 12 March
  • Chapter 12 and Chapter 13 of Cain-Herod
  Exercises (for test prep, not to be graded):
  • MT, Exercises 5.3, #10,12,15
  • MT, Exercises 5.4, #1-4,7,10
  • MT, Exercises 5.5, #3,4,7,8,11,15,24-27
  • MT, Review Exercises 5, as many of these as possible!
  • MT, Exercises 6.1, #1-4
  • MT, Exercises 6.2, #1-4,7,13,15,17,21
• Due Tuesday, 26 March
  Reading:
  • MT, Sections 6.1-6.3,7.1,7.2
  • Lecture of 12 March
  • Lecture of 14 March
  • Solutions to the test of 13 March.
  Exercises:
  Note: These were not collected until the following week. (Plus a few others.)
  • MT, Exercises 6.1, #7,8,12
  • MT, Exercises 6.2, #1-4,7,13,15,17,21
  • MT, Exercises 6.3, #1,3-5
• Due Tuesday, 2 April
  Reading:
  • MT, Chapter 7
  • Lecture of 23 March
  • Lecture of 25 March
  Exercises:
  Note: these will be collected only the following week. (Plus a few others.)
  • MT, Exercises 6.1, #7,8,12
  • MT, Exercises 6.2, #1-4,7,13,15,21
  • MT, Exercises 6.3, #1,3-5
  • MT, Exercises 7.1, #10,11,19
  • MT, Exercises 7.2, #3,4,13,14
  • MT, Exercises 7.3, #3,19
  • MT, Exercises 7.4, #5,6,10,12
• Due Wednesday, 10 April
  NOTE: There was a test on this datel
  Reading:
  • MT, Chapter 7, Section 8.1
  • Lecture of 2 April
  • Lecture of 4 April
  • Lecture of 9 April
  • Chapter 15, Chapter 16, and Chapter 17, of Cain-Herod, except for the part on Gauss's Theorem.
  Exercises (for test prep, not to be graded):
  
  • MT, Exercises 7.3, #9-11,13,14
  • MT, Exercises 7.4, #7,9,15-19,25,26
  • MT, Exercises 7.5, #1-6,15,17,20
  • MT, Exercises 7.6, #1-5,8,10,13,20
  • MT, Exercises 8.1, #7-9,13-15
  • Don't forget the problems in the old tests.
• Due Thursday, 16 April (date was delayed)
  Reading:
  • MT, Sections 8.2-8.4
  • Review session of of 9 April
  • Lecture of 11 April
  • Solutions to the test
  Exercises:
  
  • MT, Exercises 8.2, #3,4,13-15,18,21,24,31
  • MT, Exercises 8.3, #2,7,8,18,21,22
• Due Tuesday, 23 April
  Reading:
  • MT, Finish da book!
  • Lecture of 16 April
  • Lecture of 18 April
  Exercises:
  
  • MT, Exercises 8.3, #27,29
  • MT, Exercises 8.4, #2,3,5,6,,9,14,17,18,21,22,,23

Past contests

• Can you rewrite the grading formula in terms of a data vector, with elements like T1, T2, etc., and vector operations? (The head-scratcher in this is the "min" part?) Value: 1 point, submitted by 22 January.
• One point for the most creative and interesting curve drawn with software, such as Mathematica's ParametricPlot command submitted by Thursday, 24 January.
• Find a formula for a saddle like the "funky saddle" that made an appearance in Monday's lecture. What do the gradient and Hessian matrix tell you about the funky saddle point at the origin x = y = 0? Carefully discuss the tangent planes and the (3D) normal vectors at points near the origin. Due Thursday, 14 Feb.
  Several of you submitted correct analyses, but the award goes to Rehman Ali for a nice description of this cubic surface. Congratulations, Rehman!
• What is the mathematician's street number in the math story of the lecture of 21 February? Congratulations to Riesling Meyer for solving this one before the lecture was finished.

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