Cal II (Winter 11)

 

* Marks

Cal II Marks

The final marks are finally posted.
Congratulations to all who managed to survive the course(!)
in spite of disappointing exam marks (the tight gap between classes and the exam took its toll, sadly).
But you were a good bunch this term. Have a good and well-earned vacation.

WeBWorK Login
* WeBWorK Login Page (for the WW assignments)
(Use your student number as username and password the first time you log in, and change your password immediately. Let me know of any problems, including trouble with login.)

Problems?
Here is some advice if you are having trouble with the PDF files.

*  Notes on various topics

    [Notes on various techniques of integration, volumes, and infinite series]  

* Practice Assignments and Tests

Quiz 1   [Answers]
Practice Test 1 (PDF format) (Lots and lots of practice! - and no, answers will not be provided online, but you can ask me if you are not certain of your work)
Practice Test 1a (Some practice trig integrals, somehow missing from Practice Test 1.)
Another Practice Test 1 (PDF format) (This one represents an actual past test, indicating the length and format to expect)   [Answers]

Quiz 2  [Answers]

Quiz 3  [Answers]

Quiz 4  [Answers]

Highly recommended (!!! - practice for Test 2):
   Strategy for integration (Supplement to the text, including exercises with full solutions)
   The Dobson Files (summary sets of problems from old exams, with answers)

Practice Test 2  [No answers are provided; I've posted other practice sets with answers.]

Another Practice Test 2 (PDF format) (This one simulates an "enhanced" - more integrals - past test, indicating the length - a bit too long - and format to expect)  Graphs:[5a]  [5b]   [Answers]

Highly recommended (!!! - practice for Test 3):
   Strategy for testing series (Supplement to the text, including exercises with full solutions)
   The Dobson Files (summary sets of problems from old exams, with answers)

Practice Test 3 (PDF format)
Another Practice Test 3 (PDF format) (Shorter format, roughly test length)
[Answers]

 

* Test Answers

 

* Comprehensive Assessment Project

The date for the Comprehensive Assessment Test is 14 April 2011 (Thursday).
The test will be based on the text and the exercises from the "Project Description" below (as handed out in class).

Instructions for the Comprehensive Assessment Project
The Project: "Archimedes' quadrature of the parabola and the method of exhaustion", by Daniel Gatien,

Note: When you read a mathematical article, it is important to engage the text actively, not passively. You should have pencil and paper beside you, and try to follow each statement, doing the suggested calculations or reasoning yourself. It is not a novel or short story, whose meaning will just flow over you, but a dialogue, only one side of which is on the page. You must provide the other side yourself!
Here is an excellent article on how to read mathematics if you want more "advice".
(BTW: the book [Emblems of Mind by Edward Rothstein] from which the quotes are taken is one I recommend to my Liberal Arts students, and I recommend it to you too. It's about Maths & Music, and might give you a different insight into the nature of maths.)