This is my teaching schedule for the Fall 2008 semester:
Office Hours: MWF 10 AM to 11 AM, MW 1:00-1:30
PM.
Phone
713-743-3460
Click Here for Math 4350
The syllabus for this course can be found here. Please see the online syllabus for information about the textbook and prerequisites.
Most assignments will be done with pencil and paper, but students may want to use Matlab to do optional problems. A student version of Matlab is available at the Cougar Byte. Students who do not have their own copy of Matlab can access the Computer Science labs in 376 PGH or 533 PGH. The lab in 376 is sometimes reserved for a class; see the schedule posted by the door. The lab in 533 PGH is open for "walk-in" access all day (I don't know the exact hours). To use either lab, you need a VNET account.
According to the UH Final Exam Schedule, the final exam for this course will be held Wed. Dec 17, 8 - 11 AM.
There will be two or three hour exams during the semester, depending on our progress. Homework will be collected every Friday. I expect that all work that is required to find an answer will be shown in the homework.
Grading. For each exam, and for the semester total of homework grades, I will compute an average μ and standard deviation σ. If X is your score on exam one, and the average and standard deviation for exam one are μ1 and σ1, then your normalized score for exam one is:
z1 = (X-μ1)/σ1.
If there are three hour exams, your grade will be determined by a weighted average of normalized scores:
Grade = 0.16*(z1 + z3 + z3) + 0.32*zFinal + 0.20*zHomework Total.
This means that each hour exam counts 16%, the Final exam counts 32%, and the Homework Total counts 20%. The numerical result of this calculation will determine your grade as follows:
| z › 1.0 | .75 ‹ z ‹ 1.0 | .5 ‹ z ‹.75 | .25 ‹ z ‹ .5 |
| A | A- | B+ | B |
| 0 ‹ z ‹ .25 | -.25 ‹ z ‹ 0 | -.5 ‹ z ‹ -.25 | -.75 ‹ z ‹ -.5 |
| B- | C+ | C | C- |
| -1 ‹ z ‹ -.75 | -1.25 ‹ z ‹ -1.0 | -1.5 ‹ z ‹ -1.25 | ‹ -1.5 |
| D+ | D | D- | F |
This is the first semester of a 2-semester sequence. Math 2433 and 2331 are required to take this course. The textbook is “Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces” by Manfredo P. DoCarmo, Prentice-Hall Publ.
According to the UH Final Exam Schedule, the final exam for this course will be held Mon. Dec 15, 11 AM - 2 PM.
Phone 713-743-3460
Office 615 PGH
email: DWagner "at" uh "dot" edu