This is my teaching schedule for the Fall 2009 semester:
Office Hours: MWF 10-12
PM.
Office: 615 PGH
Phone
713-743-3460
Email: wagner "at" math "dot" uh "dot" edu
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Here are the answers to the quiz for November 13: 1b, 2e, 3c, 4a, 5c, 6a, 7c or e, 8d, 9b, 10c.
Number 7 was not graded because there were two correct answers and I could not give credit for both.
| ≥ 94: A | 90-93: A- | 87-89: B+ | 84-86: B |
| 80-83: B- | 77-79: C+ | 74-76: C | 70-73: C- |
| 67-69: D+ | 63-66: D | 59-63: D- | ≤ 58: F |
| ≥ 94: A | 89-93: A- | 84-88: B+ | 79-83: B |
| 74-78: B- | 69-73: C+ | 64-68: C | 60-63: C- |
| 55-59: D+ | 50-54: D | 45-49: D- | ≤ 44: F |
The syllabus for this course can be found here. Please see the online syllabus for information about the textbook and prerequisites.
According to the UH Final Exam Schedule, the final exam for this course will be held Mon. Dec 14, 8-11 AM.
There will be three hour exams during the semester.
Homework will be collected in class every Friday. I expect that all work that is required to find an answer will be shown in the homework. Homework should be turned in on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Please do not use spiral-bound paper because the frizzy edge on this paper is messy. Be neat, and leave some white space on the paper so that it can be read easily.
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 = 0.17*(z1 + z3 + z3) + 0.34*zFinal + 0.15*zQuiz Total.
This means that each hour exam counts 17%, the Final exam counts 34%, and the Quiz Total counts 15%. The numerical result of this calculation will determine your grade as follows:
| z › 1.25 | 1.0 ‹ z ‹ 1.25 | .75 ‹ z ‹ 1.0 | .5 ‹ z ‹ .75 |
| A | A- | B+ | B |
| .25 ‹ z ‹ .5 | 0 ‹ z ‹ .25 | -.25 ‹ z ‹ 0 | -.5 ‹ z ‹ -.25 |
| B- | C+ | C | C- |
| -.75 ‹ z ‹ -.5 | -1.0 ‹ z ‹ -.75 | -1.25 ‹ z ‹ -1.0 | ‹ -1.25 |
| D+ | D | D- | F |
If your Final Exam normalized score is higher than your lowest hour exam normalized score, then I will replace the lowest hour exam normalized score with the normalized final exam score.
This is the first semester of a 2-semester sequence. The textbook is “Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction, 2nd Edition” by Walter A. Strauss, Wiley Publ. I expect to cover chapters 1 to 5, or maybe 6, during the first semester.
Students should plan for Exam 2 on Wednesday, November 11.
These are the homework assignments. Homework will be a major factor in grading.
According to the UH
Final Exam Schedule, the final exam for this course
will be held Friday, Dec. 11, 11 AM - 2 PM. In addition, there
will be one midterm exam during the semester.