Math 123 Page for Fall 1998

Announcements

• Please use the university's Telephone Information System to access your final grades for the course. I've enjoyed teaching you this semester and I wish you all happy holidays!
• The math department is seeking student graders for the coming semester. If you're interested and are a math major who has work study, please contact Nicholas Manove (nmanove@math.bu.edu), 353-1477.
• Thinking about majoring in mathematics? Do you have questions about what math courses to take? Please feel free to drop by and chat.

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• Click here to read some of these comments and my responses to them.

• The last day a student can withdraw from class and receive a W grade is 11/25.
• Please go to Professor Dick Hall's office in MCS 226 for a list of private tutors.

General Course Information

• Instructor: Takashi Kimura
• Office: MCS 234
• Phone: (617)353-1486

• Course Description/Syllabus
• Lecture Times: MWF 12-1pm in STO B50
• My Office Hours: WF 10:30-12pm

• Teaching Fellow: Craig Friedland
• Office: MCS 154
• Discussion Sections:
  • M 2:00-3:00 pm CAS 322
  • M 3:00-4:00 pm CAS 325
  • M 4:00-5:00 pm CAS 218
  • T 8:30-9:30 am PSY B41
  • T 3:30-4:30 pm CAS 208

Homework Assignments

• Graded homeworks will be returned in class.
• Homework solutions will be put on reserve in the Science-Engineering Library after the assignments have been graded.
• Only three problems (chosen at random) from each homework will be graded -- please look up the solutions to the rest in the library.

• Homework # 1: Due 9/18
  • 2.2.4,8,10,14
  • 2.3.6,14,18
  • 2.4.14, 22,24
• Homework # 2: Due 9/25
  • 2.4.28, 40
  • 2.5.4, 20, 29
  • 2.6.8
  • 2.7.13, 16, 20, 24
• Homework # 3: Due 10/5 (Mon)
  • 2.8.22, 30
  • 2.10.12
  • 3.1.8, 14, 32, 38
  • 3.2.6, 12
  • 3.5.8
• Homework # 4: Due 10/14 (Wed)
  • 3.4.10, 12, 20
  • 3.5.2, 5, 24, 26
  • 3.6.4, 10, 15
• Homework # 5: Due 10/16 (Fri)
  • 3.6.27, 28, 30
  • 3.7.4, 12, 17, 22, 36
  • 4.1.6, 14
• Homework # 6: Due 10/23 (Fri)
  • 4.2.6, 24, 25, 28, 44
  • 4.3.6, 12, 16, 20
  • 4.4,10
• Homework # 7: Due 10/30 (Fri)
  • 4.5. 4, 8, 12, 24, 28
  • 4.6. 4, 8, 25
  • 4.8. 10, 18
• Homework # 8: Due 11/6 (Fri)
  • 4.9.2, 4, 8, 14, 18, 20, 23, 40
  • 5.1.2, 4
• Homework # 9: Due 11/13 (Fri)
  • 5.2. 8, 14, 17, 18, 22, 24, 28
  • 5.3. 10, 16, 22
• Homework # 10: Due 11/20 (Fri)
  • 5.3.30, 38, 46, 52
  • 5.4.8, 14, 16, 20, 21
  • 5.5.2
• Homework # 11: Due 12/4 (Fri)
  • 5.5. 16, 18, 22, 28, 38, 40, 50
  • 5.6. 4, 6, 18
• Homework # 12: Due 12/11 (Fri)
  • 5.6. 24, 26, 38, 42
  • 5.9. 6, 9, 18, 26, 42, 46

Exams

• There will be a practice exam and review session before each exam.
• Practice exam solutions are distributed during the review session and are reserve thereafter in the Science-Engineering Library.

• Exam #1: Fri 10/2.
  • Practice exam: Distributed Mon 9/28.
  • Review session: 9/30 Wed 7:30-9pm in STO B50.
  • Exam solutions are on reserve in the library.
  • Average score: 79.9 out of 100 points
• Exam #2: Wed 11/4.
  • You are responsible for the material up to (and including) Newton's method (Section 4.8) in Stewart.
  • Practice exam: Distributed Fri 10/30 in class.
  • Review session: Mon 11/2 7:00-8:30pm in STO B50.
  • Exam solutions are on reserve in the library.
  • Average score: 75.6 out of 100 points
• Exam #3: Wed 12/9.
  • Practice exam: Distributed Fri 12/4 in class.
  • Review session: Mon 12/7 7:00-8:30pm in CAS 224.
  • Average score: 74.03 out of 100 points
• Final exam: 12:30-2:30pm on Tuesday, 12/22 in STO B50.
  • You are responsible for the material covered in the entire course -- this includes all material on the three exams plus the section on improper integrals.

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