News

• The final letter grade for the course will show up on CUConnect as soon as they are available.
  If you wish to see your final exam, you may stop by your instructors office during the first part of
  the Spring semester.
  
  Here is the histogram of the final exam. It has been scaled so that 200 points is equal to 100 percent.
  Based on a possible 200 points, the mean was 121, the standard deviation was 32, and the highest score was 192.
• Here are copies of the two final exams missing from the exam archive page referenced
  at the bottom of the "Exams/Reviews" page. Spring 2008, Spring 2009.

• A corrected version of Lab 3 is now posted under the "Projects" tab. (The equation for
  curl of a vector field in polar coordinates has been corrected, and a few additional
  comments have been added.)

• Lab 3 is now posted under the "Projects" tab. The hard copy of the third project is due
  at the start of class on Monday, November 30, 2009.

• You will not need to submit either the second or third project electronically to CULearn.

• The deadline for submitting the electronic copy of the second project is postponed until further notice.
  So relax for now and we will email you (or post the information here) when we have a new deadline.

• Due to the snow closure of the University, the due date for the second lab (hard-copy),
  and the next homework assignment, have been extended to the start of class on Friday, October 30.

• The link to sign-up for Lab 2 groups is now posted on CULearn. If you look under the
  "Projects" tab you will also find the deadlines for registering your project group and
  submitting your electronic copy of the second project in CULearn. Bottom line:
  Hard copy is due at the start of recitation on October 29, 2009.
  Group registration ends on Friday, October 30, 2009.
  Electronic copy is due on Friday, November 6, 2009 (the link has not been added yet).

• CULearn may actually be working so that you can upload your first projects.
  Please go the the "Projects" tab of the main course web page, scroll down till
  you find the "Submitting your projects in CULearn" section and take a look at the
  directions and requirements.
  
  You only need to have one person from each group upload the project by October 16, 2009.

• Lab 2 is now posted under the "Projects" tab where you will also find information
  about registering your project group and submitting your electronic copy of the
  project in CULearn. The hard copy of the project is due at the start of recitation on
  October 29, 2009.

• An approximate version of the equations that will be on the back of your second
  midterm exam can be found under the "Exams/Reviews" tab in the table listing
  midterm times and rooms.
  
  We have also posted some review materials as well as some oral-exam style questions
  in case you would like to form small groups and conduct your own oral exam sessions
  to prepare for the exams.
  
  Finally, look under the "Exams/Reviews" tab to find a link to old exams.

• As soon as the electronic submission link for the first project is working,
  we will notify you. In the meantime, just sit tight. Please note: at some
  point you will need to submit an electronic copy of all three of your projects,
  so don't delete any of your electronic copies.

• The link for electronic submission of your projects is not up yet, but should
  be within the next day or so. Stay tuned. The due date for electronic submission
  will probably be around Friday at midnight.

• If mathematicians designed the surface of the earth they would put in
  discontinuities, just to make it interesting.

• An approximate version of the equations that will be on the back of your first
  midterm exam can be found under the "Exams/Reviews" tab in the table listing
  midterm times and rooms.
  
  In addition, we have posted some oral-exam style questions in case you would
  like to form small groups and conduct your own oral exam sessions to prepare
  for the exams.
  
  Finally, look under the "Exams/Reviews" tab to find a link to old exams.

• Lab 1 is now posted under the "Projects" tab where you will also find information
  about registering your project group and submitting your electronic copy of the
  project in CULearn. The hard copy of the project is due at the start of class on
  September 28, 2009.

• Bruce Fast, from ITS, will be holding several Mathematica sessions in ECCR 143.
  He will cover some of the basics of Mathematica as well as some material specific
  to the first project. The schedule is:
  
  Monday, Sept. 14, 1-2 pm, and 2-3 pm
  Thursday, Sept, 17, 2-3 pm, and 3-4 pm

• You might want to try this applet for graphing quadric surfaces.
  It has "sliders" on the axes that allow you to see the intersection of a
  quadric surface and a plane of constant x, y or z.

• Files for APPM 2450, September 1
  worksheet2.pdf
  FuncDerivPlots.nb
  

• Files for APPM 2450, August 25
  mmaIntro.ppt
  worksheet1.pdf
  Introduction.nb
  GettingStarted.nb
  

• Welcome to the new semester!