Math 251 (Phillips): Old Updates

Summary of updates:

• 8 March 2008:
  • Week 10 written homework (pdf) has been posted.
  • Web Homework 9 is now avaliable on WebAssign.
  • Solutions to Week 9 written homework have been posted.
• 4 March 2008:
  • Corrected Week 9 written homework (pdf) has been posted. The sign in the first derivative of the function from the WebAssign problem was wrong. (Someobody got extra credit for catching this error.) Also, the due date has been corrected.
  • Point recovery instructions for Midterm 2 (pdf) have been posted.
• 28 Feb. 2008:
  • Solutions (pdf) to written Homework 8 are now available.
  • Week 9 homework is now available. Note that you will need some formulas off the written homework sheet for one of the WebAssign problems.
• 27 Feb. 2008: Solutions to the sample questions for Midterm 2 are now avaliable.
• 24 Feb. 2008: Sample questions for Midterm 2 have been posted.
• 22 Feb. 2008:
  • Solutions to the home version of Midterm 1 are now available. See the Midterm 1 page.
  • Solutions to written homework 7 are now available. See the Week 7 page.
  • Real and practice web homework for Week 8 is now available on WebAssign. It is due Tuesday night. The practice assignment also includes several "tutorials" and partially worked examples on related rates (for some of the same problems). I have not checked these for correctness.
  • Written homework 8, due Wednesday: Section 4.5, Problems 18 and 42. (A printable file will be posted later.)
• 18 Feb. 2008:
  • There was a misprint in the formula in the second extra credit problem on Week 7 written homework. It has now been corrected.
  • Corrected solutions to the sample problems for Midterm 1. (There were serious errors in the solution to Problem 4e. Somebody got significant extra credit for catching this.)
  • Midterm 1 retake for 11:00 section, and its solutions (made necessary by the page order error in the original).
  • Midterm 1 home version (for making up points), and its solutions. (See instructions.)
• 15 Feb. 2008:
  • Both real and practice Web Homework 6 are available on WebAssign now. Both are officially due on Thursday evening at the usual time. (This is a change from the original "due" date for the practice assignment.)
  • Also on WebAssign, there is now a further optional assignment containing further differentiation problems. It is "due" at the end of the quarter.
  • Week 7 written homework has been posted.
  • Solutions (pdf) to written Homework 6 are now available. If you are having trouble with related rates problems, be sure to read the detailed solution given there for the related rates problem on the assignment.
• 8 Feb. 2008:
  • Solutions (pdf) to written Homework 5 are now available.
• 7 Feb. 2008:
  • Week 6 homework has been posted (including the WebAssign homework).
• 6 Feb. 2008:
  • Week 5 written homework has been posted.
  • A correction has been posted to the solutions to Week 2 written homework. Details on the Week 2 homework page.
  • Corrections have been posted to Midterm 1 for the 11:00 am section, and to the solutions to Midterm 1 for both sections. Details on the Midterm 1 page.
  • A minor misprint in the course procedures page has been fixed.
• 1 Feb. 2008:
  • WebAssign homework for Week 5 is available.
  • Midterm 1 and its solutions (for both sections) are now available.
• 30 Jan. 2008:
  • Solutions (pdf) to written Homework 4 are now available.
  • I intend to post Homework 5 on Friday.
• 29 Jan. 2008:
  • Solutions (pdf) to the sheet of extra sample questions for Midterm 1 have been posted.
  • The review session for Midterm 1 will be Wednesday 30 Jan. at 5:00 pm in 307 Deady (our usual classroom). It hasn't been officially reserved. Thus, if necessary, it will be moved at the time to a nearby room.
• 28 Jan. 2008:
  • The sheet of extra sample questions for Midterm 1 has been updated to include several limit and differentiation problems involving trigonometric functions.
• 27 Jan. 2008:
  • Sample questions for Midterm 1 have been posted.
• 25 Jan. 2008:
  • Solutions to the written Week 3 homework are now available. The pdf version is here.
• 24 Jan. 2008:
  • Week 4 homework has been posted, and the WebAssign homework for Week 4 is now available.
• 21 Jan. 2008: The following items have been posted:
  • Week 3 homework.
  • Solutions to the written Week 2 homework (pdf version here).
  • Midterm 0 Version 2 and its solutions.
• 19 Jan. 2008:
  • Web homework 2 is now available. Note to the 11:00 section: the due time is 11:59 pm, not midnight.
  • A written homework assignment will be posted sometime Monday.
• 14 Jan. 2008 (second update):
  • All people officially enrolled in the clasases as of 5:00 pm Monday 14 Jan. should now be on the webassign rosters. If you couldn't get on any time before about 5:30 pm Monday 14 Jan., try again now.
• 14 Jan. 2008:
  • A new WebAssign assignment was made available Saturday evening.
  • The first versions of Midterm 0 and its solutions have been posted.
  • Homework for Week 1 and its solutions have been posted.
  • Homework for Week 2 has been posted.
  • The organization of the course web page has been simplified. Note that the complete set of handouts, solutions, etc. can be found through the links at the bottom of the page.
• 9 Jan. 2008:
  • Solutions to the True/False assignment (pdf). (I will post properly organized links later, but I want to get something up now.)
• 6 Jan. 2008:
  • Homework for week 1 posted.
  • WebAssign information posted.
  • General course information, including a syllabus, has been posted.

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