Math 126 Autumn 2012 Section C
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Ebru Bekyel |
Office hours: MWF 10:30-11:20 in PDL-C
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Teaching Assistants |
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Sections CA and CB |
Office Hours: Tu 1:30 – 3:30 at
the MSC |
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Sections CC and CD |
Office
Hours: TBA at the MSC |
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For the times and places of the sections see the schedule. |
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Textbook
Calculus,
Stewart, Custom edition (7th edition) for UW, Volume 2, available in the
University Bookstore. It is the second half of Calculus,
Early Transcendentals, 7th
edition. You will also need to purchase a Webassign access code
for your homework assignments. If you have a LOE access code for the 6th
edition, you need to send me an email with your name, student number and UWNetID so I can get you an upgrade to 7th edition.The access code purchase comes with an electronic
version of the book. You do not have to purchase the hard copy if you do not
want to. Click here for more information. For the last two weeks, we will
follow Taylor
Notes.
Grading
There will be two midterms,
one final exam, homework assignments and quizzes. The midterms are 25% each,
the final is 35%, the homework assignments 10% and the quizzes are 5% of your total
grade. Late homework is not accepted. There are no make ups for quizzes.
Week at a
glance
Lectures are on MWF.
Tuesday and
Thursday quiz sections are for discussing problems. Tuesdays will be mostly
homework problems. You should go to quiz sections prepared to ask and answer
questions. There will also be quizzes on most Thursdays. I will announce the
topic in lecture on Wednesdays if you remind me. The homework assignments are due on Tuesdays by 11PM.
You will submit your assignments online through webassign.
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Week |
Week of |
Announcements |
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09/24 |
Sections 12.1,12.2, 12.3 Welcome
to Math
126! The
Math Study Center is a great
place to do your homework. You can follow
your quiz and exam grades from https://catalyst.uw.edu |
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10/01 |
Sections 12.4, 12.5, 12.6 Homework #1 due
Tuesday 10/02 by 11 PM. Weekly assignments are
divided into sections. It is a good idea to do each section’s homework after
the relevant lecture. Make a note of the problems you had trouble with and
ask them during quiz sections. On
most problems 5 tries are allowed. On multiple choice questions and True
False questions you get fewer tries. Confused
about the three different equations of lines? Check out this
page. Visual
aids for Section 12.6 and more For
quadratic surfaces (and for later sections), there are tools in your ebook in webassign to help you
visualize the shapes. Use these to study but remember these tools won’t be
available to you on exams. You should be able to make your own sketches when
necessary. A
pink TEC link in the ebook is a tool of the
textbook’s publisher. Traces
of surfaces shows you the traces of the quadratic surfaces and allows you
to move the planes. In particular, in the hyperboloid of one sheet you can
see how the hyperbolas change when n>1 or n<1. In
Quadratic
Surfaces you can see the stretches and compressions of the shapes in the x, y
and z directions by varying the a, b, and the c in the denominators. A
red triangle/star is a tool from Wolfram. This second one requires you to
install something in your computer. Here is one
where you can see traces (intersections of the surfaces with planes) where
you are also allowed to change the a and the b in
the equation. |
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10/08 |
Sections 12.6, 10.1, 13.1, 10.2, 13.2 |
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10/15 |
Section 10.3, midterm review, Section 13.3 Midterm
1 Thursday 10/18 Here
is a midterm
review sheet to help you plan your study. Here are some midterm
practice questions and their answers. Here
is my exam
archive Prior
to Winter 2009 we used to do Taylor series and polynomials at the beginning
of Math 126, now we do them at the end. So the earlier first midterms will
have Taylor questions and not much material from Chapter 13. There
is a CLUE review on
Wednesday, October 17th, from 6:30 -8:00 in MGH 251. |
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10/22 Last
day to file a petition for an alternative final exam is Friday 10/26 |
Sections 13.4, 14.1, 14.3 Webassign note: If you select a
choice for a multiple choice question, do not submit the answer, save your
work, come back and change the answer without re-saving, and then submit, the system will take the SAVED answer rather than the
option you changed TO. You should resave before you submit if you make any
changes to a multiple choice problem after saving your work. Here is an animation showing how the normal and osculating planes
of a helix change as you move along. The exercises below
are optional: If you want to
prove that the two formulas for curvature are the same, here are some
hints on how to go about that. When you are done, you can compare your
proof with mine.
You can also read the proof in the text. If you want to give
the vector equation of the osculating circle a try here are two hints: 1.
If the center of the circle is at C and the point of tangency is P, then the vector from P
to C is parallel to the unit normal
and its length is the radius of the circle. So where is the center (as a
vector function of t)? 2.
Think of the unit circle equation as r(t)=cos(t)i+sin(t)j. In the osculating circle, the i and j are replaced by N
and T. Don’t forget to put the radius into the equation. Now, try your ideas
on the helix r(t)=<tcos(t),tsin(t),t> at the point t=π/2. |
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10/29 |
Sections 14.4, 14.7 Section
14.7 assignment is due on Wednesday. I will finish my optimization problem in
class on Monday. Section 14.4 assignment is still do on Tuesday. |
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11/05 |
Sections 15.1, 15.2, 15.3 Confused
about curves, surfaces, derivatives, integrals, single and multi-variable
calculus? Here is
a page that summarizes what we talked about. You can also see how Math
126 topics relate to what you learned earlier in single variable calculus. Here
are some Midterm
2 review questions. Most have answers.
Note that there are no questions from Chapter 15. |
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11/12 |
midterm review, Section15.4 Midterm 2
on Thursday 11/15 You can use a scientific calculator and a single sided
letter size handwritten sheet of notes. Graphing calculators and programmable
calculators are not allowed. There is a CLUE
review on Wednesday, November 14th, from 8:00 -10:00 in MGH 295. |
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11/19 |
15.5, Taylor Notes Section 1 There
are more Taylor questions in the textbook. Read
this note before you look at the textbook. |
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11/26 |
Taylor Notes 2-5 |
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12/03 |
Taylor Notes 5, final review |
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Final
Exam on Saturday 12/08 from 1:30 to 4:20 in KNE 110 |
