Midterm Exam, October 17th, 2008, 9:00 - 9:50 AM, 1320 DCL
You must bring a pencil and your ID Card to the Exam! No Calculators or Notes!
Covers Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Answers: C B A B ; C C B D ; D A A ; D C D D ; A D C B ; B A B
Undergrad Stats: Count 32, Max 20/22, Min 6/22, Median 12.5/22, Mean 13.1/22
Graduate Stats: Count 51, Max 22/22, Min 7/22, Median 16/22, Mean 15.7/22
Curve: The corrected midterm percentage can be computed by "min(19,score)/19"
Final Exam, December 15th, 2008, 1:30 - 4:30 PM, 1310 DCL AND 218 CB
Covers Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
Undergrad Stats: Count 27, Max 46/50, Min 18/50, Median 31/50, Mean 31.9/50
Graduate Stats: Count 44, Max 46/50, Min 24/50, Median 40/50, Mean 38.8/50
Curve: The corrected final percentage can be computed by "min(46,score)/46"
A supplemental list of review questions is available in HTML format. Please let me know if you find typos!
Study Tips: The exam will be multiple choice with questions of similar difficultly to the quizzes, so make sure you really know all the quiz questions and answers. After you have finished studying the quizzes (and the midterm), try working all the review problems at the ends of the chapters. Go through the course notes and make sure you understand all the key points. Look through the text and make sure you understand the existence, uniqueness, and sensitivity of the problems which are are solving. Finally, for each chapter, what are the numerical methods, what solution do they produce, how much do they cost to implement, how stable are they. It's important to not only know the absolute cost and stability, but also the relative costs and stability (i.e. which method is best in which situation?). Make sure you know the methods well enough that you could actually apply the less complicated ones to a real problem (e.g., 3 by 3 matrix, 3 by 2 least-squares problem, 2 by 2 eigenvalue problem, 2 component Newton, 2 component Euler, scalar backward Euler, etc.) Although the exam will be comprehensive, it will be (very) slightly more concentrated on the second half of the course (Chapters 6 - 11).