According to the UH Final Exam Schedule, the Final Exam will take place in F 162, Monday, December 9, 5 - 8 PM. Please make sure that you have no schedule conflict with this time. Here is a review sheet. Here are the answers to the review sheet.
The second mid-term exam for this class took place on Monsday, November 4. The average score was 33 and the sample standard deviation of the scores was 15.8. The grading curve is:
| x >52 | 49 ≤ x ≤ 52 | 45 ≤ x ≤ 48 | 41 ≤ x ≤ 44 |
| A | A- | B+ | B |
| 37 ≤ x ≤ 40 | 33 ≤ x ≤ 36 | 30 ≤ x ≤ 32 |
26 ≤ x ≤ 33 |
| B- | C+ | C | C- |
| 22 ≤ x ≤ 25 | 18 ≤ x ≤ 21 | 14 ≤ x ≤ 17 | x ≤ 13 |
| D+ | D | D- | F |
Free tutoring for upper level undergraduate courses is available at MUSL in F 11 (in the basement of Fleming Hall). Our grader, Mr. Md. Rashedur Rahman, is there Mondays 9-11 am.
Here are my notes on analysis for undergraduate PDE's.
Here is my derivation of the wave equation for a vibrating string.
Here is a link to some Matlab files that you might enjoy.
Office: 615 PGH.
Office hours: MW 2:30-3:30 pm, available by appointment almost any time except MW 1 - 2:30 pm, 4 - 5:30 pm, F 2-3 PM.
Phone: 713-743-3460. Email: dwagner at uh dot edu.
The syllabus for this course can be downloaded from my.uh.edu. Please see the online syllabus for information about prerequisites. The textbook is the fifth edition of “Applied Partial Differential Equations with Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems” by Richard Haberman, not the fourth edition.
Homework will be collected in lecture every Monday. Here are the homework assignments. 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.
Exams. There will be two in-class exams which will be scheduled two weeks in advance, plus the Final Exam which is announced above.
Grading. For each exam, and for the semester totals of homework grades and of quiz 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.
Your grade will be determined by a weighted average of normalized scores:
Grade = (1/5)*(z1 + z2) + (2/5)*zFinal + (1/5)*zHomework Total .
This means that each hour exam counts (1/5), the Final exam counts (2/5), and the Homework total counts (1/5).
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.