1/21/02       TAKE-HOME QUIZZES for MATH 3200: Elementary Differential Equations

Spring Semester  2002

 

TAKE-HOME QUIZZES: There are 10 quizzes containing roughly 110 textbook problems in all.  Each problem is worth 2 points except for chapter 3 problems that are worth 4 points each.  Of the roughly 240 possible points, 200 points (28.6% of your grade) count toward your final grade.  That is, once 200 points are reached, any points that are made do not count toward your grade.  Students are encouraged to work together in cooperative groups on the take-home quizzes; however, each person must turn in her/his own quiz.  I expect each student to obtain the full 200 points.

 

The problems for the sections to be turned in will be confirmed on the Thursday before the Tuesday on which they are due.  If you skip class, please make sure you check with a classmate to make sure that the problems that you are to turn in are actually due.  Alternatively, I will not ask for more problems than what are scheduled so that you can always turn in the problems that are listed in this syllabus as being due and you will always be safe.  You may be turning more problems than necessary, but you will never turn in fewer problems than necessary.  If you turn in more problems than necessary, I will simply return these to you to turn in with your next quiz.

 

Quizzes are due on the Tuesdays listed.  You are free to turn in your quiz on the following Thursday, at the beginning of class with no penalty.  After 10am on Thursday, quizzes are not accepted.  If you are unable to turn in your quiz (regardless of the reason), the extra points are to be used for just such occasions.  So simply use them this way without asking.  If you miss several weeks legitimately, then we will have to find a way to make up the missed work.

 

You are always to show your work sufficient for me to understand how you obtained your answer.  You are to show your work even if the textbook does not require it.  If you do your problems using a computer system (like derive, scientific notebook or maple), you must attach a hardcopy of what you did to obtain your answer.  If you are using a powerful scientific calculator, you will have to show your work as if you did it by hand using the calculator to make sure your answer is correct unless you can get a hardcopy printout of what your calculator did to give you the solution.  If you are graphing by hand, you are to make sure that you put in a number scale on both axes.  Please make hand-drawn graphs as neat as possible.  Format: Please staple your take-home quizzes.  If your quiz is not stapled, you will be assessed 2 points.  I do not carry a stapler with me.  Please turn in a neatly written assignment.

Quiz problems

 

Section/problems                                 Planned due-date

Q1 1.1/10 (why?), 20, 22, 38, 46                          2/5                                          

      1.2/6, 10 (use calculator or computer system)

      2.1/4, 20, 32, 38, 54 (why?)        

      2.2/2, 8, 28, 32

Q2 2.3/ 2, 8, 12, 20, 28, 38                                                2/12

      2.4/6, 18, 34, 48                                                                           

Q3 2.5/8 (why?), 12 (why?), 18                         2/19                                        

      3.1/4, 16, 24 (4 points each)

Q4 3.2/5, 8, 16 (4 points each)                          2/26

      3.3/2, 8, 20 (4 points each)

Q5 4.1/6, 12, 16, 28                                            3/12

      4.2/8, 20, 26                                                     

      4.3/4, 6, 14

      4.4/6, 18, 34

Q6 4.5/2, 10, 12, 28, 36                                      3/19

      4.6/6, 18, 42                                                     

      4.7/8, 24, 32

Q7 4.8/8, 10, 14                                                      4/9

      5.1/10, 14, 16                                                   

      5.2/8, 12, 20                                     

      5.3/4, 8, 12

Q8 6.1/2, 10, 14                                                      4/23

      6.3/4, 14, 26b                  

      6.4/2, 10, 28, 36                                           

Q9 6.5/4 (undetermined coefficients),                 4/30

           22, 28 (variation of parameters)                          

      7.1/4a, 18, 28

      7.2/2, 8, 20

Q10 8.1/8, 16, 22, 38, 48, 74, 84, 88                5/7

      8.2/4, 8, 18, 26

      8.3/2, 6, 22, 28, 50, 60                     

                                               

Please look at the following problems before the final exam. Note: You’ll need to know how to solve systems of ODE’s using Laplace Transforms (to be done in class).  I can over these during our last review session.

 

     8.4/6, 12, 18, 20

      8.5/4, 14, 24                                                     

      8.6/8, 14, 18