Math 5C, Lecture 2, Course Page
(2-3:15 TuTh, North Hall 1006)


Grades: Final exam scores and course grades are posted here.

Office hours during finals week:

Office hours:
Syllabus: Check the syllabus for office hours, locations, and general advice on how to do well in the course. Or here is a pdf version to print.

Lecture notes: Here is a link to the lecture notes by Doug Moore. Here are some corrections:
Defective lecture notes: The bookstore alerted us that some of the reader they had were defective in that some pages were out of order and others were missing entirely. If you bought one of these, you may return it to the bookstore, preferably with your receipt for a replacement.

Web-based calculus exercises: A good web-based resource for sharpening your calculus skills is the COW library.

Annoying errors: Here is a link to that article about the most common errors in undergraduate mathematics, which I asked you to read in the first lecture. Many of these same mistakes greatly depress me and put me in an ungenerous mood when it comes to giving partial credit. It's a good idea to reread this before exams. You may understand and remember more each time you read it.

Bessel's equation lecture notes: Here are the slides from the lecture on Bessel's equation.

Conic sections: here is a Java applet that will let you play with conic sections.

Homework hints:
Practice exams:  Prof Crandall prepared a long list of practice problems for his class. Working through both his and my practice finals would be excellent preparation for the final exam.

Practice exams in pdf
Practice exams in postcript
Practice midterm
Practice midterm
Practice final
Practice final
Prof Crandall's practice final


Midterm solutions: Here are sample solutions to the white version of the midterm. Other colors are similar:

Pdf version
Postscript version

Inverting matrices:
Additional notes: Prof. Crandall has prepared some additional notes on solving the heat equation and the wave equation by finding eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of linear differential operators. You may download them here.