| DAILY ASSIGNMENTS | |
|---|---|
| Week 1 (USC classes begin on Monday, Friday is the last day to drop without a grade of W) | |
| Jan 9 (M) | Read sections 1.1-1.3. In 1.2, do #2abe, 3, 5, 6. Get a graphing calculator by Friday. If you don't already own one, I suggest any of the TI-83 or TI-84 calculators. |
| Jan 11 (W) | In section 1.3, do #1, 3, 5, 6, 8. Get a graphing calculator. |
| Jan 13 (F) | Read section 1.4. Do #10, 11, 13 from 1.3. Do #1, 3, 6, 9, 11 from 1.4. |
| Week 2 (Monday is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Service Day) | |
| Jan 18 (W) | Quiz Friday on sections 1.1-1.4. Bring a calculator to class from now on. You will repeatedly be asked to make a table of values from a discrete dynamical system using a calculator. Here are some instructions. |
| Jan 20 (F) | Quiz 1: Finish the quiz at home and turn it in Monday. For homework read section 1.5 and finish the 1.1-1.4 assigned problems. Whenever possible solve the problem both with and without entering the dynamical system on your calculator. |
| Week 3 | |
| Jan 23 (M) | Do #1, 2, 3 from section 1.5. Read section 2.1-2.2 and do #1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 24, 25, 27 from section 2.2. There will be a quiz Friday on sections 1.4, 1.5, and 2.2. |
| Jan 25 (W) | Read section 2.3. There will be a quiz Friday on sections 1.4, 1.5, and 2.2. |
| Jan 27 (F) | Quiz 2: If you had trouble with quiz 2, print off a blank copy from this website and try again (not to be turned in). For homework, do #1, 9, 10, 11, 12 from section 2.3 and read section 2.4. |
| Week 4 | |
| Jan 30 (M) | Reread section 2.4 carefully and do #2, 4, 15, 16 from that section. |
| Feb 1 (W) | Friday's quiz will cover 2.3-2.4. For additional homework in 2.4, do #12, 13, and as many of #1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 that you need to feel confident doing this type of problem. |
| Feb 3 (F) | Quiz 3: Finish the quiz at home. We will discuss the quiz on Monday, but solutions will also be posted online by Sunday morning. If you had trouble, get a blank copy of the quiz online and try again before simply looking at the solutions. For homework read sections 3.1-3.3. Do #2, 5, 6, 7, 8 from 3.2. Start #1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 12 from 3.3. |
| Week 5 | |
| Feb 6 (M) | For homework, finish the problems from 3.3. Read 3.4 and do #4, 5, 8, 12, 13 from that section. In order to do #12, 13 you will have to read the handout on regression. |
| Feb 8 (W) | Friday's quiz will be on sections 3.1-3.4, but the regression handout will be provided. Read 3.5 and do #5, 7, 14, 15 from that section. |
| Feb 10 (F) | Quiz 4. Wednesday's test will cover sections 1.1-1.5, 2.1-2.4, 3.1-3.5. I will have a help session Tuesday night but have not set up the time or room yet. If you are having trouble, email me to set up office hours. |
| Week 6 | |
| Feb 13 (M) | Wednesday's test will cover sections 1.1-1.5, 2.1-2.4, 3.1-3.5. I will have a help session Tuesday night from 6:00-8:00 in our room LC412. If you can do all of the quiz and homework problems, you'll be in great shape for the test. You may also want to look at old quizzes and tests from last semester. |
| Feb 15 (W) | Test 1 |
| Feb 17 (F) | Read sections 5.1-5.2 very carefully - I consider this an important section. In 5.2, do #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8. |
| Week 7 (Monday is the last day to drop without a grade of WF) | |
| Feb 20 (M) | Carefully re-read sections 5.1-5.2 and finish the assigned problems. Read and fill in the table in the handout on Modeling Alcohol Levels. |
| Feb 22 (W) | Friday's quiz will be based upon sections 5.1-5.2 and other alcohol level problems discussed in class. We reviewed the meaning of a derivative as a rate of change. Here are some review problems on derivatives (part 1 and part 2) given as one combined handout in class. From this handout do the first 5 problems (#1, 2, 4, 5, 11). The rest of the handout is broken up into problems labeled section 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4. From 4.1 do #3, 8, 10, 19, 20. From 4.2 do #1, 2, 16, 17, 20. From 4.3 do #3, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25. From 4.4 do #3, 4, 8, 9, 13, 15. The answers are included so block them out until you've worked it out for yourself and then compare your answer with mine. |
| Feb 24 (F) | Quiz 5 can be found online and is due Monday. For homework do #6, 7, 11, 14, 18, 19 from the problems in section 4.3 from part 2 of Wednesday's handout. We are mostly finished with the textbook so the material for the rest of the semester will come from lecture. If you need to miss a class, then get the notes from another student. Today we reviewed the meaning of a derivative, basic derivative rules, and the rules for finding the derivative of a product, quotient, or chain of two functions. |
| Week 8 | |
| Feb 27 (M) | For homework, do the first 4 problems from worksheet A. Worksheet A has introductory problems to prepare you for modeling with differential equations. You will need to think about the derivative as being a rate of change (or graphically a slope). You will also need to know phrases like "is proportional to" which means "equals a constant times". We are now mostly finished with the long handout reviewing calculus problems. You may need to go to the Math Lab Tutoring Center for help if you are rusty with your basic derivative rules. I'll give more details on Wednesday about what Friday's quiz will cover in terms of derivatives and whether or not it will include problems like those on worksheet A. |
| Mar 1 (W) | Use Euler's Method to approximate h(2) given that dh/dt = 2t and h(0)=1. Use Delta t = 0.1 (we've already used 1 and 0.5 in class). Do #7 from worksheet A. |
| Mar 3 (F) | Quiz 6: For homework finish worksheet B. |
| Week 9 (Spring Break!) | |
| Week 10 | |
| Mar 13 (M) | Finish #1, 2, 3, 4, 7 from worksheet A. Finish all of worksheet B. On worksheet B, for #2 and #3 use 0.5 for delta t. Finally, try to find an explicit solution to the differential equation dP/dt = 0.02P with initial condition P(0) = 100 (note that dP/dt = 0.02P is not the same as dP/dt = 0.02t so has a different explicit solution.) |
| Mar 15 (W) | For homework do all the problems from worksheet C. For Friday's quiz you should be able to (1) use Euler's method, (2) go from a differential equation to a graph (like #4 on worksheet A), and (3) do the problems from worksheet C. |
| Mar 17 (F) | Quiz 7: If you had trouble with quiz 7, print off a blank copy and try again (not to be turned in). Wednesday's test will cover section 5.1-5.2 in the book, the handout on modeling alcohol levels, the handout on calculus derivative review problems, worksheets A, B, and C, and quizzes 5, 6, and 7. I will have a help session on Tuesday from 7:30pm-9:30pm in LC412. |
| Week 11 | |
| Mar 20 (M) | Wednesday's test will cover section 5.1-5.2 in the book, the handout on modeling alcohol levels, the handout on calculus derivative review problems, worksheets A, B, and C, and quizzes 5, 6, and 7. I will have a help session on Tuesday from 7:30pm-9:30pm in LC412. |
| Mar 22 (W) | Test 2 |
| Mar 24 (F) | Do #1, 2, 3, 4abcdef from worksheet D. |
| Week 12 | |
| Mar 27 (M) | Do #4ghijkl from worksheet D and all problems from worksheet E. There will be a quiz Friday on these two worksheets. |
| Mar 29 (W) | Friday's quiz will be on worksheet D and worksheet E. Solutions are now available for Test 2. |
| Mar 31 (F) | Quiz 8. For homework read sections 6.1-6.2 from the book and do #1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 from section 6.2. |
| Week 13 | |
| Apr 3 (M) | Read section 5.3 and do #1, 3, 5, 7 from that section. Since this section discusses the "maximum interval of stability", you can now go back to answer questions from 6.2 which involve this phrase. |
| Apr 5 (W) | Friday's quiz will cover sections 5.3 and 6.2. |
| Apr 7 (F) | If you missed class today, be sure to work through Quiz 9 before Monday's class. If you had difficulty with this quiz be sure to reread sections 5.3 and 6.2 and then try it again. For homework, carefully read section 6.3 and do #1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 from that section. Note that our next test will be one week from Wednesday. |
| Week 14 | |
| Apr 10 (M) | Carefully reread section 6.3 and finish the homework from that section. |
| Apr 12 (W) | Read section 6.4 and do #1, 2 from that section. There will be a take-home quiz given Friday covering sections 6.3 and 6.4. Before next Wednesday's test I will hold a help session on Monday night (time to be determined). |
| Apr 14 (F) | Take quiz 10 (page 1, page 2) - you don't need to turn this in. The help session will be Monday from 8:00pm-10:00pm in LC412. Wednesday's test will cover worksheets D, E; quizzes 8, 9, 10; sections 5.3, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4. |
| Week 15 | |
| Apr 17 (M) | Wednesday's test will cover worksheets D, E; quizzes 8, 9, 10; sections 5.3, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4. Solutions to all quizzes as well as the even-numbered homework problems are now online. |
| Apr 19 (W) | Test 3 |
| Apr 21 (F) | We went over the test and discussed grades. |
| Week 16 (Monday is the last day of classes) | |
| Apr 24 (M) | The final exam will be cumulative and similar in style to previous tests. It will be around 1.5-2 times the length of a normal test. It will not cover section 6.4 but will cover everything else we've done in the course. I suggest studying in the following order: (1) tests, (2) quizzes, (3) worksheets, (4) notes and text. |
| Final Exam Period (Wednesday, Apr 26 through Wednesday, May 3) | |
| Apr 29 (Saturday) | Cumulative Final Exam from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in LeConte 412 |