There will be three midterms of 100 points each. The homework
will count for 100 points. The Final will
count for 200 points. This gives a total of
600 points and your grade will be based on the total out of the 600.
In summary:
Three midterms @ 100 points each
300 points
Total for homework
100 points
Final
200 points
Total
600 points
The dates of the tests will be:
Test 1
Wednesday, February 11
Test 2
Wednesday, March 25
Test 3
Wednesday, April 22
Final
Wednesday, April 29, 9:00p.m.
Homework and quizzes:
Some of the homework will be in the form of things your are to
know by the next class and "collected" in the form of a short quiz.
There will be not make up exams or quizzes:
If you miss a test, then your score on that exam is 75% of the
average of your other test scores including the final. Likewise
I will not take late homework.
A word about prerequisites:
Mathematics 241 is listed as a prerequisite to this class.
While it will not be assumed that you remember everything from that
class, it will be assumed that you do remember the basics about vectors
and how to work with them. This includes adding, subtracting, and
multiplying them by scalars. Also the dot
product and the cross product and what they mean geometrically and how
to use them to solve geometric problems such as finding the distance
from a point to a plane.
