News

• This the week (starting Feb. 8th) the TAs will hold office hours in ECCR 143 according to
  this schedule.
  

• The homework assignment that is normally due the day after the exam can be turned
  in on Friday at the start of class.

• 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.
  
  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.

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

• Lab 1 is now posted under the "Projects" tab where you will also find some information about
  the form and style of the written project document. The hard copy of the project is due at the
  start of class on February 15, 2010.
• Bruce Fast, from ITS, will be holding several hour-long 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:
  
  Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2-3 pm, and 3-4 pm
  Friday, Feb, 5, 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.

• Welcome to the new semester!