This is my teaching schedule for the Spring 2008 semester:
Office Hours: MWF 10 AM to 11 AM, MW 2:30-2:50
PM.
Phone
713-743-3460
Teacher Evaluation for Spring 2008:
Click Here for Math 4336
The syllabus for this course can be found here.
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. You will also need to download the dfield7.m and pplane5.m files from the link in the online syllabus and configure Matlab to know where the files are (customize the "path": see "help path" in Matlab).
According to the UH Final Exam Schedule, the final exam for this course will be held Wed. May 7, 8 - 11 AM.
There will be two or three hour exams during the semester, depending on our progress. On weeks when there is no hour exam, there will be a quiz during the Friday class. Homework is collected every Friday. Homework will be checked for completeness. I expect that all work that is required to find an answer will be shown in the homework. If the homework is not complete, a penalty will be assessed against the quiz score for that week.
Grading. For each exam, and for the semester total of quiz scores, 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*zQuiz Total.
This means that each hour exam counts 16%, the Final exam counts 32%, and the Quiz 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 second semester of a 2-semester sequence. Math 4335 or permission of the instructor are required to take this course. The textbook is Partial Differential Equations, an Introduction, 1st edition, by Walter Strauss. Note that there is a second edition out, but we are using the first edition because that is what students could buy for the first semester.
The exam, originally scheduled
for March
26, will instead
be held on
Wednesday April 1.
This will give me time to try to make up a solvable exam.
This is a link to the course syllabus.
Homework assignments are listed here.
According to the UH Final Exam Schedule, the final exam for this course will be held Wed. May 7, 2 - 5 PM.
Phone 713-743-3460
Office 615 PGH
email: DWagner "at" uh "dot" edu