FALL 2003
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Review for Exam #1.
When & Where:
12:00-12:50 MWF in 24 Illini Hall or 241 Altgeld Hall, as announced
Who:
Instructor: Malgorzata Konwerska
(mkonwers@math.uiuc.edu)
office: B1 Coble Hall
office hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:00, Thursday 11:00-12:00
If you'd like to see me at another time, drop me an email
to make an appointment.
Classroom Assistant: Mike Anderson (mandrsn1@uiuc.edu).
Mike will be available to help you during class hours
and will do some of the grading.
What's going on:
Course webpage: http://cm.math.uiuc.edu/classcomm
You need to login to th course web page.
user name: your network ID
password: your network ID (you need to change the
password after your first login)
Textbook: There is NO book. You will need to purchase the CD "Vector Calculus & Mathematica". CD works together with Mathematica, which is installed in labs and you may do your work there. So you do not need to buy the Mathematica software. However, if you wish to work away from the lab you need to purchase the Mathematica software: student version or lease a copy ($25 for one year) from CITES - see http://cm.math.uiuc.edu for a link to CITES.
Calculus & Mathematica format: You will spend most of your class time working in the computer lab, in a group with other student. Rather than listening to a lecture, most days you will be working through the material found on your CD, using the software Mathematica. This software facilitates experimenting with mathematics and visualizing mathematics. The instructor and the classroom assistant will be available to help you as you work through the material on the computer.
Class attendance: Class attendance is very important, since you will gain so much from working with a group and consulting with the instructor and classroom assistant.
Exam dates: There will be three hour exams
during the semester and a final exam. These exams will be done
with pencil and paper; calculators and Mathematica will not be used for
the exams.
Exam #1 - Monday, October 6, location 141 Altgeld Hall
Exam #2 - Wednesday, November 5, location TBA
Exam #3 - Friday, December 12, location TBA
Final Exam - Monday, December 15, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Group problem sets: Problem sets from the Mathematica notebooks will be assigned approximately weekly. The list will be posted on the Classcomm website, and will consist of selected problems from the "GiveItATry" notebooks from each lesson. These are to be done in groups, using the computer, and to be handed electronically. See the Lab Instructor in 239 Altgeld if you nees help turning in your homework. Late HW will be accepted with penalty 9% for each day and up to 3 days late only. points will be assign for clarity of your explanations as well as correctness of the sloution, so put Text cells explaining what you are doing. You can do much of the work during class, but you will need to do some work outside of class, too. Each group will submit only one notebook (put all names inside!!!), and each group member will receive the same score on the assignment. Be sure that all members of the group understand all the solutions! All members of the group will be expected to contribute equally to each problem. At the beginning of the semester, you will be assigned to a group, but later your group may change.
Literacy sheets: Literacy sheets are paper and pencil assignments. They will be assign on the unit basis. They won't be graded, but there will a quiz based on the questions from literacy sheet.
Math 190: If you have not taken it previously, you may register for Math 190. It is a one hour course which gives you credit for learning Mathematica. Your grade in Math 190, if you register for it, will be based on your group problem sets. The call number of Math190 is 05159.
Course grade: Mathematica notebooks
(group homework) - 36%
Quizess (Literacy sheets) - 8%
Exam 1 - 11%
Exam 2 - 12%
Exam 3 - 13%
Final Exam - 20%
Course grades will be assigned approximately as
follows:
90-100% A-, A or A+, 80-89% B-, B or B+, 70-79%
C-, C or C+, 60-69% D or D+.
Important note:
Your course grade will be at most one letter grade
higher than your weighted average on the four exams.
Course content: The course will cover 9 units
from Vector Calculus & Mathematica CD.
VC.01 - Vectors
VC.02 - Perpendicularity
VC.03 - The Gradient
VC.04 - 2D Vector Fields and TheirTrajectories
VC.05 - 2D Measurements
VC.06 - Sources, Sinks, Swirls and Singularities
VC.07 - Tranformating 2D Integrals
VC.08 - Tranformating 3D Integrals
VC.09 - Spherical Coordinates
VC.10 * - 3D Surface Measurments (* = maybye)