This page is under construction.
Additions may be made throughout the last week of class.
Changes since 1st posting: extra office hours before exam, and then 1/2 hr.
shift in Carto's Thursday session.
Additions on 3/12-3/13: CLUE review session info,
link to some Smith solutions.
Added 3/13 evening: third recommended old final, study suggestions on each
section of the course.
Added 3/14, 5:15:
Some answers to old finals. 9:30 PM: same link now shows more answers.
Basic information.
The final exam, on Saturday, March 15,
is comprehensive, that is covers all topics in the course, and is
not held in the usual classrooms.
Final exam date, time, place and other information. Note you should bring picture ID.
Calculator and notes rules and general test taking advice are the same as given in the information about the Midterm.
Study resources.
1. There's a link to the old final exams on the Math 126 schedule page. The Spring 2007 exam (= Worksheet 7) will be used as a worksheet on Thursday, 3/13.
Although no one test can will cover all the kinds of questions you might see on our exam, the Winter 2007 exam is a good one to use as a sample test.
After that try the Autumn 2006 exam (omitting 3(b), which requires a idea we skipped). (Note: I taught 126 that quarter.)
Some answers to some of these old finals.
2. Be sure you can do all the homework problems in Chapters 14 and 15.
3. Review our minitest and midterm.
4. The final is written by both lecturers together. It may be helpful to study
Professor Smith's midterm review questions. Note: Some of these problems were on the
actual midterm, for which he posted
solutions.
5. Office hours during exam week: Usual (JMA M 2:30-3:30 in C338 PDL
& Tu 2-3 in MSC: CW Tu 4-6 in MSC: IL Tu 6-7 in C8F PDL & 7-8 in MSC) plus
extra office hours:
Thursday: JA 2-3 in C338 PDL and CW Th
change 3:30-5:30 in BLM 203.
Friday: IL F 4-5 in C8F PDL & 5-6 in MSC and
JA Th 2-3 in C338 PDL & F 6-8 in MSC.
Also by appointment with any of the three instructors.
6. Center for Learning
and Undergraduate Enrichment (CLUE)
is having a review session for Math 126 Friday, 3/14 8-10 PM in MGH 271.
Study suggestions on each section of the course.
Taylor Series and Notes: I recommend reviewing our minitest and some of the Taylor Homework, at least HW#5 and in HW#3, Problem 5. In Professor Smith's review problems, for this material I especially recommend questions 94-100. Note on his problem 98: the "9" and "00" near the end of the equation should be included in the exponents, so the powers are 99 and 100. Those problems plus the Taylor problems on the three old finals listed above should prepare you on this topic. If you need more practice on a particular type of problem, look for that type of problem on the sample midterm 1's that I listed for review earlier (and posted links to solutions for).
Vectors and curves: Chapters 10, 12, and 13: In addition to the problems on the three old finals mentioned above, be sure to review the geometric uses of dot and cross product, such as vector and scalar projections, areas of parallelograms and triangles, and volumes of parallelopipeds, (because I'm not sure if all of these show up in the three old finals). Professor Smith's midterm review questions include many that emphasize geometric ideas rather than calculation, and I recommend these as practice: 5-7, 21-23, 26-33, 36-38, and 41-47. Also review our midterm.
Functions of several variables: Chapters 14 and 15: The homework from these chapters (especially 14.4, 14.7, and all we did in Chapter 15) and the three old finals listed above are the best way to review these chapters.
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