Friday, September 30, 2005

Class 9/30 + HW #2

Alternating series theorem, ratio test, root test.

HW #2:
11.2 #9,10,29,62
.3 #15,16,19,20
.4 #11,13,14,30
.6 #2,3,10

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Where to turn in homework

I said today in class to turn in homework in section. You can still do that if you want to.
However, henceforth, the preferred method is to stick them in specially marked boxes on the 2nd floor of AP&M.

1. The homework drop boxes are wooden boxes attached to the walls on the 2nd floor of AP&M, clearly labeled "HOMEWORK TURN-IN BOX". Look for the four slots labeled 20D Knutson MATLAB and 20D Knutson HW (two of each type).

2. Written HW is to be turned in to the drop boxes before Friday at 12:00pm, and make sure to put your written HW in a slot labeled 20D Knutson HW. It doesn't matter which of the two HW slots you use; if one is obviously full please use the other.

3. MATLAB is to be turned in to the drop boxes before Wednesday at 12:00pm. Be sure to put your MATLAB in one of the two slots labeled 20D Knutson MATLAB.

Class 9/26 + 9/28

Sequences, series, convergence, integral test.

Friday, September 23, 2005

HW #1

Some of these are odd-even pairs, so you can assure yourself that you've got the right idea with the odd ones (with the answers in the back).

Stewart 11.1:
4,5,7,8, 16,17,19,29,30, 39,40, 49,50,51, 61,64,68.

No MATLAB session on Sep 27

No MATLAB session next Tuesday (Sep 27). Everything else about the sessions will be explained by TAs on Thursday 29th. The MATLAB assignments are all here by the way.

Class 9/23

In today's class, we defined sequence, bounded, convergent to A, and just convergent.
These two are related, of course: we proved if a sequence converges to a limit A, then it converges.
I had carelessly scheduled the second midterm for Veterans' Day. It has been moved two days earlier.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

I'm Prof. Allen Knutson, of UCSD Mathematics.

This fall, 2005, I'll be teaching Math 20d on series and differential equations.
I've set up this blog the better to reach people in my class.
Largely it will mirror the course website (which itself needs setting up). One benefit of having it here also is that it can be dropped into RSS aggregators (I like bloglines).

I'm hoping that the comment section will also prove useful. Stranger things have happened!