Math 114, Lecture 001 - Spring 2008

Instructor: Ted Chinburg

Office: DRL 4E4, Ext. 898-8340
Email: ted@math.upenn.edu

Announcements concerning the course.

Answer Key for the Final Exam.

Time and Location of the Final

The final exam for our course will be on Friday, May 9, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m in room 200 of College Hall. You can bring one two-sided handwritten sheet of notes to the final. No books or calculators will be allowed.

Answer Keys for some old final exams

Some old final exams for math 114 are given at the back of the course lab manual. The lab manual includes answer keys for these exams. On the main Math 114 web page you will find some addtional old final exams, some of which have answer keys and some of which do not. Prof. Popa and his teaching assistants have written up answer keys for some of these exams:
  1. Fall 2002 answer key
  2. Fall 2003 make-up final answer key
  3. Fall 2004 answer key
  4. Fall 2003 answer key
  5. Spring 2003 answer key
  6. Spring 2005 answer key
All of the final exams and answer keys for math 114 copyrighted material of the Penn mathematics department.

Advice about Power Series Problems

Review sessions for the final exam

Everyone is welcome to come to these reviews regardless of the recitation to which they belong.

First Hour Exam Information

Estimate of the grade distribution on the first mid-term

Score   Grade
10           A
9             A-
8             B
7             C+
6             C
5             D
<5           F

Second Hour Exam Information

Answer Key to Second Hour Exam

Estimate of the grade distribution on the second mid-term

Score   Grade
10           A
9             A-
8             B
7             C
6             C
5             D
4             D-
< 4          F

Third Hour Exam Information

Answer Key to the Third Hour Exam

Estimate of the grade distribution on the third mid-term

Score   Grade
10           A
9             between A and A-
8             B+
7             B
6             C+
5             C-
4             D
< 4          F

Fourth Hour Exam Information

Answer Key to the Fourth Hour Exam

Estimate of the grade distribution on the fourth mid-term

Score   Grade
10             A+
9               A
8               A
7               B
6               B
5               C
4               C
3               C-
2                D
1                F

Additional Notes

Notes about least squares and finding maxima and minima

Base Jump

Party Preferences and Predator Prey models

Maple Examples

  1. Examples of 3-D plots and contourplots (.pdf file)
  2. Examples of 3-D plots and contourplots (Maple file)
  3. Contourplot3d example (.pdf file)
  4. Contourplot3d example (Maple file)
  5. Two dimensional continuity example (Maple file)
  6. Two dimensional continuity example (Maple file)
  7. Coin Flip example (Maple file)
  8. Coin Flip example (Maple file)
  9. The Logistic equation and college costs (Maple file)
  10. Parachute jumps (Maple file)

Extra Credit Problems

These problems can be turned in anytime before the final exam. Work on extra credit problems will be used to decide cases in which a course grade is in between two letter grades.

Some interesting web pages

Art and perspective

Info pages for undergraduate math:

General Course Information:

Grading Scheme: 

The dates for the hour exams are tentative

 Quizzes (weekly in recitation):    20%
 Hour exam 1 (Mon. Feb. 4):         10%
 Hour exam 2 (Fri. Feb. 22):      10%
 Hour exam 3 (Mon. March 31):   10%
 Hour exam 4 (Mon. April 28):      10%
 Final Exam (Friday, May 9, 9 - 11 a.m.):        40%
 
 Each week homework problems from
 the text will be assigned as practice
 to prepare for the quizzes and next hour exam.
 This homework will not be collected
 or graded, however, unless it
 involves Maple.  Maple homework
 will be graded, and these grades
 will be used to decide borderline
 cases between letter grades at the 
 end of the course.

The Course Schedule, Syllabus and Homework Policy:

The Course Schedule describes which sections of the text will be discussed in lecture each day, based on the Course Syllabus. Both these items are linked to a list of core homework problems for each sections of the text. It is important to work through these homework problems on your own, and to discuss them in recitation, in order to be prepared for the hour exams. Only Maple homework will be graded, and grades on this homework will be used to decide borderline letter grade cases at the end of the term. However, the course T.A.'s will correct and return to you any written solutions to any homework problem you give them, and they will discuss the homework in recitation in order to provide feedback.

Exams:

The dates below for the hour exams are tentative.

THERE WON'T BE ANY MAKE-UP EXAMS.

Grading notes: At the end of the semester, everyone who has not withdrawn from the class will get a grade. Incompletes will not be given to avoid F's.

Information on the The Math Help System

ted@math.upenn.edu
April 30, 2008