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Have a great summer! JR

Test #3
Test #3 is Thursday, April 24. Solutions.

You may bring one one-sided, hand-written, 5"x8" note card with you, and a non-programmable, non-graphing, non-symbol-manipulating, scientific calculator.
The test will focus on:

Ch. 11: all of it.
Ch. 10: sections 4,5.

We will start reviewing Thursday, April 17, and all of class Tuesday 4/22 will be for review. Please work hard now to identify what might give you trouble on the test, so we can sort it out before then.

Computer version of polar curve example:

(The "corners" are actually smooth, see zoomed image on right.)

Taylor polynomial example (green is Taylor quadratic, red is f itself):

Polar length integral result
Homework
HW12. Due Tuesday April 25 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
Note: Your HW#12 can be picked up now from the TA, if you wish to go get it.
HW11. Due Tuesday April 15 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
HW10. Due Tuesday April 8 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
HW9. Due Tuesday April 1 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
HW8. Due Tuesday March 18 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
HW7. Due Thursday March 6 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
HW6. Due Thursday Feb 27 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
HW5. Due Tuesday Feb 18 Thursday Feb 20 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
HW4. Due Tuesday Feb 11 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
HW3. Due Tuesday Feb 4 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
HW2. Due Tuesday Jan 28 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
HW1. Now due Thursday Jan 23 at the beginning of class. Solutions.
Power series example

etc.

At each x, we have a (numerical) series. Some of these series converge (in fact, all the ones with 4 &le x < 6), and the others do not.

Click here.

Test #2
Test #2 is Tuesday, March 25.

Solutions. Note that in Problem 5, some quesion papers had x and y reversed.

You may bring one one-sided, hand-written, 5"x8" note card with you, and a non-programmable, non-graphing, non-symbol-manipulating, scientific calculator.
The test will focus on:

Ch. 7: sections 4,5,7,8.
Ch. 8: sections 1,2.
Ch. 9: section 4.
Ch. 10: sections 1,2.
Harmonic series and the leaning tower of books
Parametric curves
Rolling disk: the cycloid.
Maple file that generated this here.
Test#1
The first Test is Thursday, Feb 13. Please read this.
Solutions.
Intersecting cylinders animation.
Office Hours
My office hours:
Mon 9:00-10:00am in Math. Bldg. Room 206,
and by appointment (email ringland@acsu.buffalo.edu).

TA Joshua Surman's office hours are
Tues 1:30-3:00
Wed  12:00-1:00
Thur 2:30-4:00
His office is 138 Math. Bldg.
Welcome!
Class Handout for MTH 142W: PDF version, HTML version.