According to the UH Final Exam Schedule, the Final Exam will take place in SEC 104, Wednesday, December 12, 11 AM - 2 PM. Please make sure that you have no schedule conflict with this time.
I will hold a final exam review session Monday,Dec 3, 12-1:30 pm, in SEC 104. Here is a review sheet. Here is the review sheet with answers.
Exam 2 has been graded. The average score was 42.79. The sample standard deviation of the scores was 17.16. The grading curve is: (x = your score)
| x > 64 | 60 ≤ x ≤ 63 | 56 ≤ x ≤ 59 | 52 ≤ x ≤ 55 |
| A | A- | B+ | B |
| 47 ≤ x ≤ 51 | 43 ≤ x ≤ 46 | 39 ≤ x ≤ 42 | 34 ≤ x ≤ 38 |
| B- | C+ | C | C- |
| 30 ≤ x ≤ 33 | 26 ≤ x ≤ 29 | 21 ≤ x ≤ 25 | x ≤ 20 |
| D+ | D | D- | F |
Exam 1 has been graded. The average score was 49.68. The sample standard deviation of the scores was 19.67. The grading curve is: (x = your score)
| x > 70 | 65 ≤ x ≤ 70 | 60 ≤ x ≤ 64 | 55 ≤ x ≤ 59 |
| A | A- | B+ | B |
| 50 ≤ x ≤ 54 | 45 ≤ x ≤ 49 | 40 ≤ x ≤ 44 | 35 ≤ x ≤ 39 |
| B- | C+ | C | C- |
| 30 ≤ x ≤ 34 | 26 ≤ x ≤ 29 | 21 ≤ x ≤ 25 | x ≤ 20 |
| D+ | D | D- | F |
Here is my derivation of the wave equation for a vibrating string.
Here is a link to some Matlab files that you might enjoy.
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Office hours: MW 1-2:30 pm, available by appointment almost any time except MWF 10 - 11 am, Noon-1 pm, F 2-3 PM.
Phone: 713-743-3460. Email: wagner at math dot uh dot edu.
The syllabus for this course can be downloaded from my.uh.edu. Please see the online syllabus for information about prerequisites. The textbook is the fifth edition of “Applied Partial Differential Equations with Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems” by Richard Haberman, not the fourth edition.
Homework will be collected in lecture every Monday. Here are the homework assignments. I expect that all work that is required to find an answer will be shown in the homework. Homework should be turned in on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Please do not use spiral-bound paper because the frizzy edge on this paper is messy. Be neat, and leave some white space on the paper so that it can be read easily.
Grading. For each exam, and for the semester totals of homework grades and of quiz grades, I will compute an average μ and standard deviation σ. If X is your score on exam one, and the average and standard deviation for exam one are μ1 and σ1, then your normalized score for exam one is:
z1 = (X-μ1)/σ1.
Your grade will be determined by a weighted average of normalized scores:
Grade = (1/5)*(z1 + z2) + (2/5)*zFinal + (1/5)*zHomework Total .
This means that each hour exam counts (1/5), the Final exam counts (2/5), and the Homework total counts (1/5).
The numerical result of this calculation will determine your grade as follows:
| z › 1.25 | 1.0 ‹ z ‹ 1.25 | .75 ‹ z ‹ 1.0 | .5 ‹ z ‹ .75 |
| A | A- | B+ | B |
| .25 ‹ z ‹ .5 | 0 ‹ z ‹ .25 | -.25 ‹ z ‹ 0 | -.5 ‹ z ‹ -.25 |
| B- | C+ | C | C- |
| -.75 ‹ z ‹ -.5 | -1.0 ‹ z ‹ -.75 | -1.25 ‹ z ‹ -1.0 | ‹ -1.25 |
| D+ | D | D- | F |
If your Final Exam normalized score is higher than your lowest hour exam normalized score, then I will replace the lowest hour exam normalized score with the normalized final exam score.