Faculty: M. Shillor
Office: 554 SEB
Phone: 248-370-3439
Class Time: MW 7:30-9:17 PM
Room: 93 SEB
Office Hours: Wednesday 5:00 - 6:30
PM, or by
appointment.
Prerequisites: APM 541.
Text: Advanced Engineering
Mathematics, by E.
Kreyszig, 8th Edition. You may also use the new 9th Edition,
however, the Home Work will be from the 8th Edition.
Exams: The grade in this course will
be based
on two 100-point hour exams
and one 200-point final exam.
Exam #1: Monday,
February13;
Exam #2: Monday, March 27;
It will be held in the usual classroom, it is
comprehensive and will cover the entire
material of the course.
In case the university is officially
closed
on a scheduled exam date, the exam
will be held on the next class date that the university is officially
open.
Grades: There is no fixed grading
scale in
this course; a conversion formula from your
percentage score to Oakland University grades will be determined at the
end of
the course.
However, the following table shows the lowest possible grade that a
given
percentage
score will earn:
Homework: Homework will be assigned
on a
regular basis but it will not be collected or graded.
Honesty: Cheating is a serious
academic
crime. Anyone convicted of cheating in this
course will receive a course grade of 0.0 in addition to any penalties
imposed
by the
Academic Conduct Committee.
Important Dates:
Monday January 16 - MLK day, no
class.
January 18 - Last day for no-grade
drop.
Winter Recess - February 25 -- March
5
March 15 - Last day for official
withdrawal
(W grade).
April 18 - Last class.
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Schedule: We will cover most of
Chapters 3,
11- 16.
January 16: Sections 11.1 -
11.3 (Wednesday (no class on Monday))
HW 11.1 (pp. 584-5): 2-13 -check
that the functions solve the
equations,
15-22 just write the equation as an ODE (do not solve)
There will be
10 questions on the exam. You have to answer 6 questions
out
of questions 1-8, and you have to answer questions 9 and 10. Each
question is
worth 12.5 points (100 points total). You may bring one page freely
written on
both sides.
Last year's Exam 1: click here
Exam #1 Median=82 (28 students).
Grade
distribution for the exam:
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95% - 100% grade 4.0 |
85% - 94% grade 3.7 - 3.9 |
75% - 84% grade 3.4 - 3.6 |
65% - 74% grade 3.0 - 3.3 |
50% - 64% grade 2.0 - 2.9 |
0% - 49% grade 0.0 |
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7 |
4 |
9 |
3 |
5 |
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Highest
mark for the exam: 100 (x2)

Welcome back!
Exam #2 Median= ( students).
Grade distribution for the exam:
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95% - 100% (OU grade 4.0) |
85% - 94% (OU grade 3.5 - 3.9) |
75% - 84% (OU grade 3.0 - 3.4) |
65% - 74% (OU grade 2.5 - 2.9) |
50% - 64% (OU grade 1.5 - 2.4) |
0% - 49% (OU grade 0.0) |
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Highest
mark for the exam:
Remainder: The final will be
comprehensive.
The material for the
final is: Ch. 3, 11.1-11.7, 12.1-12.8, 13.1-13.4, 14.1, 14.2, 14.4,
15.1-15.3.
The format will be:
9 questions out of 1-12; questions 13-15 are mandatory
you may use up to two freely written two sided A4 sheets of paper
Each of the first 9 question is worth 18 points, and the last three 12
points each,
to a total of 200 points.
Monday, April 24, 7:00 - 10:00PM.
If you have any questions or remarks, send
them to me
by clicking on
Winter 2006