Math 231 W3 Past Course Announcements

Past announcements

Friday, January 16: Welcome!
Welcome to the class website. Please browse around and familiarize yourself with this page and the course pages linked to from it. This page will contain announcements, assignments, and past worksheets and solutions--it'll be an important place to visit often. (Please consider bookmarking it.) As the semester progresses, if you have any suggestions for improving the class or the webpages, please let me know.

Wednesday, January 21: Compass
I will be using Illinois Compass for keeping track of your grades in both Math 231 and Math 199. Log in there and click on "My Grades" to see homework, quiz, and exam scores, and also weekly updates on your Merit grade. If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know. (Note: It may take a few days for the class roster to be uploaded into our section, so don't panic if you don't see this class listed for you in Compass right away.)

Friday, January 30: Monday's class and office hours cancelled
Class and office hours will be cancelled on Monday, February 2, since I will be out of town for the day. (We will discuss making up the missed hour in class at some point.) The schedule has been modified accordingly above. In particular, note that we won't spend a day on Section 6.5, and Section 7.1 will appear on the second midterm instead of the first. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

Friday, January 30: Change to office hours
In order to have office hours that you can more easily make, I've changed my office hours to Mondays 3-4 PM, Tuesdays 4-5 PM, and Thursdays 4-5 PM. As always, if you need help but can't make a regularly scheduled office hour, please send me or one of your classmates an email. If that's not enough of a help, contact me, and I'll be happy to set up an appointment with you.

Tuesday, February 10: Time and place for the first mock exam
Our first mock exam will be held on Thursday, February 12, from 6-8 PM in 141 Altgeld Hall (just up the hall from our classroom). Attendance is optional, but students often find it helpful in knowing what to expect for the actual midterm, which will be held Monday. I'll give the mock exam out right at 6 PM and give you an hour to work on it by yourself (as if it was the real exam, though during the real thing you'll have two hours), and then we'll spend another hour going over answers to the mock exam and answering any questions you have. See you there!

Past schedule

Wednesday 1/21: Course introduction, Section 6.1 (Review of integration formulas and techniques from Calc I)
Friday 1/23: Quiz 1; Section 6.2 (Integration by parts).
Monday 1/26: Section 6.3 (Integrals involving powers of trigonometric functions).
Wednesday 1/28: Section 6.3 (Trigonometric substitution).
Friday 1/30: Quiz 2; Section 6.4 (Integration of rational functions: quadratic denominators, and using partial fractions).
Monday 2/2: Class cancelled (see the announcement below).
Wednesday 2/4: Section 6.4 (Integration of rational functions using partial fractions).
Friday 2/6: Quiz 3; Review of integration techniques.
Monday 2/9: Section 6.6 (Improper integrals).
Wednesday 2/11: Section 6.6 (A comparison test for improper integrals)
Thursday 2/12: MOCK EXAM 1, 6-8 PM, 141 Altgeld Hall.
Friday 2/13: Exam review.
Monday 2/16: EXAM 1 IN CLASS, over Chapter 6 (except Section 6.5).
Wednesday 2/18: Section 7.1 (Introduction to differential equations; exponential growth and decay)
Friday 2/20: Quiz 4; Section 8.1 (Sequences).
Monday 2/23: Section 8.2 (Introduction to series).
Wednesday 2/25: Sections 8.2 (Special types of series; the kth-Term Test).
Friday 2/27: Quiz 5; Section 8.3 (The integral test, basic comparison test, and limit comparison test).
Monday 3/2: Section 8.3 (More on the comparison tests).
Wednesday 3/4: Section 8.4 (Alternating series).
Friday 3/6: Quiz 6; Section 8.5 (Absolute convergence; the ratio test).
Monday 3/9: Section 8.5 (The root test).
Wednesday 3/11: Sections 8.1-8.5. (More practice with sequences and series).
Thursday 3/12: MOCK EXAM 1, 6-8 PM, in 141 Altgeld Hall.
Friday 3/13: Exam review.
Monday 3/16: EXAM 2 IN CLASS, over Sections 7.1 and 8.1 through 8.5, in 164 Noyes Lab.
Wednesday 3/18: Section 8.6 (Power series and intervals of convergence)
Friday 3/20: Quiz 7; Sections 8.6 and 8.7 (Introduction to Taylor series).
Monday 3/30: Section 8.7 (Taylor series).
Wednesday 4/1: Sections 8.7 and 8.8 (Taylor series and applications).
Friday 4/3: Quiz 8; Sections 8.7 and 8.8 (Remainder terms and applications of Taylor series).
Monday 4/6: Section 8.8 (Applications of Taylor series).
Wednesday 4/8: Section 9.1 (Parametric equations).
Friday 4/10: Quiz 9; Section 9.2 (Calculus and parametric equations).
Monday 4/13: Section 9.2 (Calculus and parametric equations)
Wednesday 4/15: Section 9.3 (Arc length and surface area in parametric equations).
Thursday 4/16: MOCK EXAM 3, 6-8 PM, 341 Altgeld Hall.
Friday 4/17: Exam review.
Monday 4/20: EXAM 3 IN CLASS, over Sections 8.6 through 8.8 and 9.1 through 9.3. Exam in 136 BURRILL HALL.