Home page for Math 251:05-10, spring 2006


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Course diary
#1: Vectors and curves
#2: Derivatives for n>1
#3: Integrals for n>1
#4: Vector calculus

Things to do

Exam warning!
The second exam will be given in the
usual classroom at the usual time on
Friday, April 7.
Review problems    Student solutions   Formula sheet
I would like students to do well. Please practice.
There will be a review session on Thursday evening (April 6), from 6:30-8:30 in SEC 208. You've watched me do problems for months now. If you do not prepare independently of this session, it may not help much!
Please bring your Rutgers ID to the exam!

Other class material
 
Title
(with PDF links)
What is it?Handed out
or posted
Review problems for the second exam These problems are mostly from past exams in the course. There's information what the exam will cover (up to and including lecture 20, which is section 16.3 of the text with some sections listed in the syllabus omitted), and some exam rules.
Do you want to be famous? Each letter of the alphabet (except for Y and Z) has been given a problem. Contribute to the general welfare by sending me a solution for some problems.
Here are the student solutions so far.
3/28/2006
Draft formula sheet for the second exam If you have comments, corrections, or suggested additions please send e-mail. I sincerely tried to include formulas which I believe would be useful on the exam. Adding much other information would likely reduce the utility of the formula sheet, and perhaps what's on it is already too much. 3/28/2006
Information about the third Maple assignment The third Maple assignment is here and information to help you with it is here.
Students who are registered for the course as of Saturday morning, March 25, will get information necessary for this Maple assignment. If you have not gotten the information and you believe you should have, please send me e-mail. This assignment will be worth 20 points.
3/25/2006
The third group of workshop problems Students should write solutions and hand in their work at the next recitation on March 22. Their efforts will be judged both for presentation and mathematical correctness. Please see here for more information about what we expect, and here for information about grading.
Students in sections 5, 6, and 7, taught by Mr. Ilinca, should hand in solutions to problem 5, and may hand in solutions to problem 3 for extra credit. Students in sections 8, 9, and 10, taught by Mr. Zarechnak, should hand in solutions to problem 3.
3/9/2006
Answers to the first exam Here are answers to the first exam. Please let me know if you have comments or corrections. Small corrections to the answers for problems 4 and 8 have been made due to Mr. Walawalkar and Mr. Sadakh and I thank them for this. Two more "misprints" (small errors?) were detected by L. Pudwell, the head TA for the course, and I thank her additionally.
Here is a discussion of the grades and grading. There are details of partial credit assignment, and a small forecast about a problem on the second exam.
2/28/2006
The first exam Here is one version of the first exam, in a somewhat more compact format. The annoying misprint in the last problem (6 should have been 5) is corrected. Four instructors who proofread the exam didn't see this, but at least three students taking the exam found it. 2/28/2006
The second group of workshop problems Students should write solutions to problem #4 and hand in their work at recitation. Their efforts will be judged both for presentation and mathematical correctness. Please see here for more information about what we expect, and here for information about grading. 2/15/2006
Review problems for the first exam These problems are mostly from past exams in the course. There's information what the exam will cover (up to and including lecture 9, which is section 14.6 of the text), and some exam rules.
Do you want to be famous? Each letter of the alphabet (except for Y and Z) has been given a problem (in several cases letters share a long problem). Contribute to the general welfare by sending me a solution for the problem whose letter begins your last name. Here are the solutions so far.
2/15/2006
Revised formula sheet for the first exam The a draft formula sheet for the first exam had two errors. One was noticed during the exam and mentioned. Another was not noticed, and several students who depended on the formula sheet used the mistaken equation. It has been fixed here. In the future, please do look at the draft.
Written about the draft
If you have comments, corrections, or suggested additions please send e-mail. I sincerely tried to include formulas which I believe would be useful on the exam. Adding much other information would likely reduce the utility of the formula sheet, and perhaps what's on it is already too much.
2/15/2006
Comments on grading Maple and workshops Here is some discussion about grading the first Maple assignment and the workshop problems. 2/15/2006
Data about some functions Some data about several functions and their first derivatives was handed out in class on February 14 and discussed so that the class could learn about versions of the chain rule. More information is available in the course diary. 2/14/2006
Information about the second Maple assignment The second Maple assignment is here and information to help you with it is here.
Students who are registered for the course as of Sunday evening, February 5, will get information necessary for this Maple assignment. If you have not gotten the information and you believe you should have, please send me e-mail.
2/7/2006
The first group of workshop problems Students should write solutions to problem #3 and hand in their work at recitation. Their efforts will be judged both for presentation and mathematical correctness. Please see here for more information about what we expect. 2/2/2006
Information about the first Maple assignment The first Maple assignment is here and information to help you with it is here.
Students who have both filled out the student information form and who are registered for the course as of Monday evening, January 23, will get information necessary for this Maple assignment. If you have not gotten the information and you believe you should have, please send me e-mail.
1/23/2006
Maple 0 Material for the Maple recitations. 1/18/2006
Information sheet A sheet to be passed out on the first day of class. 1/17/2006

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