Math 110 - Spring 2013

 

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  This is the webpage for Math 110 Spring 2013, Section 109.


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Homeworks
Exam Resources
Schedule


General Info

Office Hours: M 3 - 3:30 pm, Tu 3:30 - 4:30 pm, F 3 - 3:30 pm
Office: 1085 Evans

e-mail: tabrizianpeyam@hotmail (I left out the .com for anti-spam purposes)


Announcements

(05/15) Congratulations!!! You are officially done! Have a Peyamazing summer :)

(05/14) The Final Exam is on Tuesday, May 14th, in 1 Pimentel. Here is some info about office hours and review sessions:

- Special Office Hours (all in 1085 Evans):

Friday 05/03 3 - 3:30 pm
Monday 05/06 3 - 3:30 pm
Tuesday 05/07 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Thursday 05/09 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Friday 05/10 3 - 5 pm
Monday 05/13 3 - 5 pm

- Final Exam Review Session : Wednesday, 05/08, 5-7 pm in 102 Wurster . You can find the problems I'll cover under the 'Exam Resources'-tab below!
- You can find the DwD-worksheets, as well as a practice exam with solutions below!
- There will be a pizza party on Tuesday, 05/14, at 5 pm at LaVal's! Come and mingle and enjoy the end of this awesome semester!

(03/20) Midterm 2 is on Wednesday, March 20th, during lecture. Here is some info about office hours and review sessions:

- Special Office Hours (all in 1085 Evans): Monday 3 - 4:30 pm, Tuesday 12-1 pm (notice the time change!) and 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Wednesday 1 - 1:25 pm
- Midterm 2 Review Session : Monday 03/18 5-6:30 pm in 166 Barrows. You can find the problems I'll cover under the 'Exam Resources'-tab below!
- You can find a practice exam with solutions, as well as hints to the non-HW problems in Chapters 3 and 5 on Bspace !
- There will be a pizza party on Wednesday, 03/20, at 5 pm at LaVal's! Come and mingle and enjoy the end of midterm 2!

(02/22 - 03/08) Due to medical reasons, I had to go out of town for 2 weeks, but I'm feeling much better now :)

(02/20) Midterm 1 is on Wednesday, February 20th, during lecture. Here is some info about office hours and review sessions:

- Special Office Hours (all in 1085 Evans): Tuesday 02/19 12-1 pm and 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Wednesday 02/20 12:30 - 1:30 pm
- Midterm 1 Review Session : Tuesday 02/19 5-6:30 pm in 102 Wurster. You can find the problems I'll cover under the 'Exam Resources'-tab below!
- You can find a practice exam with solutions, as well as hints to the non-HW problems in Chapters 1 and 2 on Bspace !
- There will be a pizza party on Wednesday, 02/20, at 5 pm at LaVal's! Come and mingle and enjoy the end of midterm 1!

(01/26) Welcome to Math 110! Hope you'll have lots of fun!


Homework Hints/Solutions

I've been asked to put all the homework hints and solutions on Bspace , so you can all find them there!


Exam Resources

Midterm 1

Practice Midterm 1   Solutions   (a mistake in 1(a) has been corrected)

Problems covered during the Midterm 1 - Review Session

You can find hints to all the non-HW problems on Bspace

Midterm 2

Practice Midterm 2   Solutions  

Problems covered during the Midterm 2 - Review Session

You can find hints to all the non-HW problems on Bspace

Final Exam

Practice Final   Solutions  

Problems covered during the Final Exam - Review Session

You can find the DwD worksheets below!

Unfortunately, this time, I won't provide any non-HW hints, but if there's any specific problem you have questions about, feel free to ask it on piazza!

Some extra problems about simultaneous diagonalization (courtesy Dan Sparks, in case you need more practice)   Solutions


DwD-Worksheets

Worksheet 1 (Eigenstuff, Generalized eigenvectors)   Solutions

Worksheet 2 (Characteristic and Minimal polynomials, Upper-triangular form)   Solutions

Worksheet 3 (Orthogonality)   Solutions

Worksheet 4 (The Spectral Theorem, Getting Real)   Solutions

Worksheet 5 (Induction-Workshop, Determinants)   Solutions


Some fun handouts

A fun proof of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality

Do all inner products on R^n look the same?

How to actually calculate the Jordan Canonical Form of a matrix

Some intuition behind normal operators   (courtesy Dan Sparks)


Some useful handouts about proving things

Bad proofs

Small proofs-handout

Prof. Hutchings' "Intro to writing proofs"


Schedule


Progress

This diagram illustrates our progress in this course. It will be updated weekly: