Today’s lecture notes: wk7day15 More word problem examples for separable ODEs. Worthy of attention are the picture explanation of the solution of an IVP. We also started sequences today (Section 11.1 in textbook).
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Lecture #14
Today we covered moments & centre of mass (found in Sec 8.3 of textbook, ignore hydrostatic pressure / force and theorem of Pappus) and started the topic of ordinary differential equations (ODE, found in Sec. 9.3). We briefly discussed how…
Quiz 2 and Announcements
If you haven’t received my email about Quiz 2 postponing to today (announced on this weblog though), please check your junk/spam folder. If found, add my email address to your address book / contact list. Otherwise, send me an email…
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Lecture #13
After doing an extra example and out-syllabus talk on approximate integration, I ran out of time for my last example. Attached here please find the lecture notes with 2 extra pages: wk6day13. We covered everything about improper integrals, but the…
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Homework #6 Posted
Homework #5 was posted a week ago too, but the link did not appear in the white menu page.
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Lecture #12
Today we reviewed the Midpoint Rule and covered the Trapezoidal and Simpson’s Rule. The Trapezoidal Rule replaces rectangle for each sub-interval by a trapezoid whose area equals the average of the left-endpoint and right-endpoint Riemann rectangles: $$ t_i = (l_i…
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Quiz 2 Postponed to Feb 14th
That was a colossal mistake! Afraid to tear or wrinkle the edges, I took the quizzes from the top of the midterm pile and put them neatly into an envelope this morning… and FORGOT TO BRING IT! Ooops. Sorry guys,…
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Sample Quiz 2 posted.
The solution is also posted now. (Feb 11th, sorry! I forgot to post it during the Chinese New Year weekend…)
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Lecture #11
Today we’ve covered partial fractions, and the notes is here: wk5day11. The examples in the lecture notes are meant to be instructive, but the strategy varies slightly with different rational functions. So here is the full recipe for your reference: partfrac_recipe. Try…
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