Math/CS 514 Fall 2008

The qualifying examination will be held on Thursday, January 15, from 6pm to 8pm in MATH 431. No notes or calculators are allowed.

The graded final exam for MATH 514 is available for collection outside MATH 430.

The solutions for the final exam are available at:

http://www.math.purdue.edu/~mleok/courses/ma514/ma514_final_sol.pdf

The course grades have been uploaded to myPurdue, and the statistics for the final are as follows:

mean = 71.8
standard deviation = 17.7
median = 73
25th percentile = 52
75th percentile = 86

I will have office hours on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, from 1pm to 3pm. Please drop by if you have any questions before the final exam.

The final is on Thursday, 12/18, 7:00p – 9:00p in ME 261.

The graded homeworks are available for collection outside my door.

Project 3 is currently not yet available for collection.

The solutions are available at:

http://www.math.purdue.edu/~mleok/courses/ma514/ma514_solutions.pdf

The following is the final homework set:

8.2: 3, 7

8.3: 1, 5*, 6

8.4: 1, 2, 3

This set will not be collected, but you will be responsible for the material for the exam, and I will post a solution set by the end of the next week.

Homework #10 is due on Friday, December 5, 2008.

7.3: 7, 9, 11

7.4: 6, 9

Please also note that computer project #3 is due on the same day.

The third computer project is due on Friday, December 5, 2008, at 5pm.

C7.1: 1 (compute up to D(10,10))

C7.1: 2, use the program to approximate the second derivative of the functions in C7.1 #1 (compute up to D(10,10))

C7.4: 1 (compute up to R(10,10))

The following problems are due on Tuesday, November 25, either in class, or by 5pm in the slot outside MATH 430.

6.12: 5

7.1: 7, 10, 12, 13

7.2: 4, 8, 10, 19

The deadline for Computer Project #2 has been extended to Tuesday, November 18, 2008.

The second computer project is due on Thursday, November 13.

C6.4: 6
C6.4: 7
C6.4. 8

The following may be helpful:

Sample MATLAB code