MATH 322 - Spring 2007 - Assignments

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Before January 12th

Read Sections 13.1 and 13.2. Prepare a list of questions for Friday's session.

Quiz on January 19th

• Register into Wiley Plus
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 13.1 & 13.2

This assignment corresponds to problems # 13.1.7, 13.1.9, 13.1.11, 13.1.17, 13.2.9, 13.2.11, 13.2.13, 13.2.15, and to review problems # 13.17, 13.19, 13.23, and 13.25.

Quiz on January 26th

• Read Sections 13.3 and 13.4
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 13.3 & 13.4

This assignment corresponds to problems # 13.3.13, 13.3.15, 13.3.21, 13.3.23, 13.4.1, 13.4.3, 13.4.13, and 13.4.17.

Quiz on February 2nd

• Read Sections 13.5 and 13.6
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 13.4, 13.5 & 13.6

This assignment corresponds to problems # 9.6.7, 9.6.9, 13.4.13, 13.4.17, 13.5.3, 13.5.5, 13.5.9, 13.5.11, 13.6.7, 13.6.9, 13.6.13, and 13.6.15.

Quiz on February 9th

• Read Sections 13.7, 7.1 and 7.2
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 13.7, 7.1 & 7.2

This assignment corresponds to problems # 13.7.1, 13.7.3, 13.7.5, 13.7.9, 7.1.1, 7.1.3, 7.1.5, 7.1.7, 7.1.9, 7.2.1, 7.2.3, 7.2.5, 7.2.7, 7.2.9, 7.2.11, and 7.2.13.
Note: The sign of entry 3,2 in the answer to problem 7.2.11 is incorrect.

By February 9th

Register your clicker: go to our D2L course page, click on Quizzes, and follow the link to the Clicker Registration quiz.

By February 13th

Register your study group: Send one email per group to one of the TA's; all of the group members should be copied on this email. Include a list all of the group members, as well as a primary point of contact for the group.

Quiz on February 16th

• Read Sections 7.4 and 7.5
• Complete the assignment entitled Section 7.4

This assignment corresponds to problems # 7.4.1, 7.4.3, 7.4.5, 7.4.15, 7.4.17, 7.4.27, 7.4.29, 7.9.5, 7.9.13, and to review problems 7.31 and 7.33.
Note: In order to find the rank of a matrix, use the definition seen in class (not matrix row-reduction).

Test on February 20th

• This test will cover all of Complex Numbers, plus Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.4, and 7.5.
• To prepare for the test,
  • Study the lecture notes on complex numbers. Concept tests and check lists, called Check your knowledge and Check your understanding are posted on the lecture notes page, at the end of the section on complex numbers.
  • The online assignment called Review - Complex Numbers contains all of the problems assigned for Chapter 13.
  • Review the lecture notes and homework assignments for Sections 7.1 - 7.5.
• Midterm 1
• Worked out answers

Quiz on February 23rd

• Read Sections 7.6, 7.7 and 7.8. Skip the discussion of Cramer's rule on page 312 (Section 7.7) and ignore the part of Section 7.8 (on page 317) that explains how to find the inverse of a matrix with the Gauss-Jordan method. (To find the inverse of a matrix, use the general formula seen in class.)
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 7.7 & 7.8

This assignment corresponds to problems # 7.7.5, 7.7.7, 7.7.9, 7.7.11, 7.7.13, 7.7.15, 7.8.1, 7.8.3, 7.8.5, 7.8.7, 7.8.9, 7.8.11, and to review problem 7.23.

Quiz on March 2nd

• Read Section 8.1.
• Complete the assignment entitled Section 8.1. Choose "Hermitian" for the first answer of Problems 8.5.5 and 8.5.7, and "skew-Hermitian" for the first answer of Problems 8.5.9 and 8.5.11.

This assignment corresponds to problems # 8.1.3, 8.1.5, 8.1.9, 8.1.11, 8.1.15, 8.1.21, 8.1.25, 8.5.5, 8.5.7, 8.5.9, and 8.5.11.

Quiz on March 9th

• Read Sections 1.1, 1.7, 2.2, and 2.6.
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 1.1, 1.7, 2.2 & 2.6.

This assignment corresponds to problems # 1.1.5, 1.1.7, 1.1.9, 1.1.13, 1.7.3, 2.1.7, 2.1.11, 2.2.19, 2.6.1, 2.6.11, 2.6.15, 2.6.17, 3.1.7, 3.1.9, 3.1.11, 3.1.13, 3.1.15, 3.1.17, 3.1.19, 3.2.1, 3.2.3, and 3.2.5.

Due March 20th

• Read Sections 2.7, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.6.
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 2.2, 2.7, 4.3 & 4.6.

This assignment corresponds to problems # 2.2.1, 2.2.5, 2.2.11, 2.2.21, 2.2.25, 2.2.31, 2.7.1, 2.7.3, 2.7.7, 2.7.11, 2.7.15, 2.7.17, 2.7.19, 4.3.1, 4.3.3, 4.3.5, 4.3.7, 4.3.11, 4.3.13, 4.3.15, 4.6.3, 4.6.5, 4.6.7, 4.6.9, 4.6.11, 4.6.13, and 4.6.15.

Review of MATH 254 - To be completed before the second midterm (March 29th)

• This is a review of what you learned in MATH 254. If you forgot some of the material, please read the corresponding sections of Chapters 1 through 4 of the text.
• Complete the assignment entitled M254 Review.

This assignment corresponds to problems # 1.1.3, 1.1.19, 1.3.13, 1.3.15, 1.3.19, 1.3.33, 1.4.1, 1.4.7, 1.4.9, 1.4.19, 1.5.5, 1.5.7, 1.5.11, 1.5.19, 3.2.9, 3.2.11, 3.2.15, 3.2.17, 3.3.1, 3.3.3, 3.3.9, and to review problems 1.15, 1.17, 1.27, 1.29, 2.9, 2.19, 2.23, 3.9, 4.21, 4.23, and 4.25.

Quiz on March 23rd

• Read Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.7, and 5.8.
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.7 & 5.8.

This assignment corresponds to problems # 5.1.1, 5.1.3, 5.1.5, 5.1.7, 5.1.9, 5.1.11, 5.1.15, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, 5.2.5, 5.2.7, 5.2.9, 5.2.11, 5.2.13, 5.7.7, 5.7.9, 5.7.11, 5.7.13, 5.7.15, 5.7.17, 5.7.19, and to review problem 5.27.

Test on March 29th

• This test will cover all of Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, and Expansions.
• To prepare for the test,
  • Study the lecture notes on the above topics. Clicker questions and check lists, called Check your knowledge and Check your understanding are posted on the lecture notes page, at the end of each section.
  • The online assignments called Review - Linear Algebra and Review - ODEs contain all of the problems assigned on these topics. You may use them to practice your computational skills.
• Midterm 2
• Worked out answers

Quiz on April 6th

• Read Sections 11.1, 11.2, and 11.3.
• Complete the assignment entitled Copy of Sections 11.1, 11.2 & 11.3.

This assignment corresponds to problems # 11.1.3, 11.1.13, 11.1.17, 11.1.21, 11.2.1, 11.2.3, 11.2.9, 11.2.15, 11.3.3, 11.3.5, 11.3.15, and to review problems 11.11 and 11.19.

Quiz on April 13th

• Read Sections 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.8, and 11.9.
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.8 & 11.9.

This assignment corresponds to problems # 11.3.17, 11.4.7, 11.4.9, 11.4.11, 11.4.13, 11.5.7, 11.5.9, 11.8.1, 11.8.11, 11.9.3, 11.9.5, 11.9.9, and to review problem 11.39.

Quiz on April 20th

• Read Sections 12.1, 12.2, and 12.3.
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 12.1 & 12.3.
• Work out the problems in the PDE problem set, and bring your worked out solutions to class on Friday. The quiz will be based on a slightly modified version of these problems. You will need your solutions to do the quiz.
• Worked out answers to the PDE problem set

The online assignment corresponds to problems # 12.1.1, 12.1.11, 12.1.27, 12.1.29, 12.3.1, 12.3.5, 12.3.7, and to review problem 12.19 and 12.23.

Quiz on April 27th

• Read Sections 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, and 12.8.
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 12.5, 12.6 & 12.8.

This assignment corresponds to problems # 12.5.5, 12.5.15, 12.6.1, 12.6.3, 12.6.5, 12.6.7, 12.8.1, 12.8.3, 12.8.11, 12.8.21, and to review problem 12.31.

Homework due by the end of day on May 2nd

• Read Sections 6.1 - 6.4, 6.6, and 6.7.
• Complete the assignment entitled Sections 6.1 - 6.4, 6.6 & 6.7.
• Note: As for the assignments on Fourier transforms, the symbol for the Laplace transform may appear as a box on your browser.

This assignment corresponds to problems # 6.1.1, 6.1.3, 6.1.9, 6.1.29, 6.1.35, 6.1.41, 6.1.47, 6.2.1, 6.2.7, 6.2.13, 6.2.15, 6.2.21, 6.2.27, 6.2.31, 6.3.3, 6.3.9, 6.3.15, 6.3.23, 6.3.27, 6.4.1, 6.4.3, 6.4.9, 6.4.11, 6.6.1, 6.6.5, 6.6.7, 6.6.9, 6.6.13, 6.6.17, 6.6.19, 6.7.1, 6.7.3, 6.7.5, 6.7.7, 6.7.13, 6.7.15, 6.7.17.

Final exam on May 10th

• The final exam is comprehensive.


• About half of the questions will be on the material covered since Midterm II. The rest will be on the material covered before Midterm II.


• All of the problems assigned during the year are available online. They are grouped by topics, in assignments called Review for Final - (Name of a particular topic). These assignments have no due date and will not be graded.


• To prepare for the final exam,
  • Go over the lecture notes.
  • Review the handouts, called Check your knowledge and Check your understanding, that are posted on the lecture notes page.
  • Review the clicker questions.
  • Use the above to identify the topics that you are not comfortable with, or that you are confused about. Make a list of questions; try to be specific. If you cannot find the answers to your questions in the book or in the lecture notes, do not hesitate to come to office hours during exams week if you need help.
  • Use the online assignments to do a few drill problems. If you know a topic well, there is no need to do all of the problems related to that topic. On the other hand, if you feel you need to practice on a particular subject, then it is worth spending the time going over a variety of problems.


• A sheet with useful formulas for Fourier series, as well as Fourier and Laplace transforms will be attached to the back of the exam. Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the contents of that sheet before the day of the exam.


• The final exam will include problem(s) on ODEs and systems of ODEs. Some of these problems may be solved either by the standard methods discussed in MATH 254, or by means of Laplace transforms. On the final exam, you will be allowed to use the method of your choice.


• Final exam