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Gradescope Homework

Each week you will be asked to complete at least one or two homework assignment(s) in Gradescope. Gradescope homework questions can be multiple choice, multiple answer, or fill-in-the-blank style. The due date for each assignment will be announced in class and posted to Gradescope.

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  • Late assignments will not be accepted.

Paper-and-Pen Homework  

(Updated 4 December 2022)

Paper-and-Pen assignments should be submitted through Gradescope. You will be automatically enrolled in this course at Gradescope by August 29. If you are not familiar with Gradescope, you can find a video demonstrating the submission process at the following link:

https://gradescope.com/get_started#student-submission
Also Gradescope has provided a helpful guide to scanning and submitting your assignment as a PDF:
Guide to scanning and submitting your assignment
  • Late assignments will not be accepted.
  • Please keep all problems in the same order as the assignment list and ordered vertically on your page.
  • You must show all of your work.
  • All your solutions should be in a single pdf file before being uploaded, or as a picture for each question.
  • Please make sure your files are legible before submitting. Unreadable solutions will not earn credit.
  • Most word processors can save files as a pdf.
  • There are many tools to combine pdfs, such as here, and others for turning jpgs into pdfs, such as here.

    • Homework 0 Note: The password can be found in item 6 of the email that was sent to students on Monday, 08/22/2022.
    Note: It is absolutely essential that you complete this reading assignment by Tuesday 09/06/2022. If you have any questions, please come to my office hours.
    Note: You do not need to fully understand the details in "Facts_From_Mathematical_Analysis.pdf". However, please make sure you understand the questions that are answered in "Facts_From_Mathematical_Analysis.pdf".
    Note: Please carefully read the syllabus. If you have any questions about the syllabus, please come to my office hours.
    Special Extra Credit
      In Homework 0 you were asked to read the following pdf file:
    • Facts_From_Mathematical_Analysis.pdf
      You will earn extra credit (and also you will make me very happy) if you come to one of my office hours and explain Question 2 and item (2-2) of Answer 2 to me.
    Homework 1     (Due Wednesday, September 14 at 2pm<-- New Due Date!)
      Note: You may come to my office hours on to present your solution to the question marked in bold (for extra credit).
      Note: You do NOT need to answer the question marked in bold as part of your homework. You will earn extra credit if you come to my extra office hours to present your answer.
      Note: The purpose of homework assignments is to make sure that you know the terminology and specific methods discussed in class. All problems should be solved using terminology, ideas, and methods that were introduced in lecture.
      Note: Please carefully read the syllabus. If you have any questions about the syllabus, please come to my office hours.
    Homework 2     (Due Wednesday, September 28 at 2pm<-- New Due Date!)
      Note: You may come to my office hours on to present your solution to the question marked in bold (for extra credit).
      Note: You do NOT need to answer the question marked in bold as part of your homework. You will earn extra credit if you come to my extra office hours to present your answer.
      Note: The purpose of homework assignments is to make sure that you know the terminology and specific methods discussed in class. All problems should be solved using terminology, ideas, and methods that were introduced in lecture.
      Note: Please carefully read the syllabus. If you have any questions about the syllabus, please come to my office hours.
    Homework 3     (Due Wednesday, October 12 at 2pm)
      Note: You may come to my office hours on to present your solution to the question marked in bold (for extra credit).
      Note: You do NOT need to answer the question marked in bold as part of your homework. You will earn extra credit if you come to my extra office hours to present your answer.
      Note: The purpose of homework assignments is to make sure that you know the terminology and specific methods discussed in class. All problems should be solved using terminology, ideas, and methods that were introduced in lecture.
      Note: Please carefully read the syllabus. If you have any questions about the syllabus, please come to my office hours.
    Exam 1 Review Packet
    Homework 4     (Due Wednesday, November 2, 2:00 pm)
      Note: Homework 4 does not have any questions marked in bold.
      Note: The purpose of homework assignments is to make sure that you know the terminology and specific methods discussed in class. All problems should be solved using terminology, ideas, and methods that were introduced in lecture.
      Note: Please carefully read the syllabus. If you have any questions about the syllabus, please come to my office hours.
    Special Extra Credit
      You will earn extra credit (and also you will make me very happy) if you solve the two exercises in the following pdf file and then present your solutions in one of my office hours. You may present your solutions to both problems. For each problem you will earn 0.5 point extra credit which will be added directly to your final grade.
    • Laplace_Transform.pdf
    Homework 5     (Due Friday, November 18, 2:00 pm)
      Note: Homework 5 does not have any questions marked in bold.
      Note: The purpose of homework assignments is to make sure that you know the terminology and specific methods discussed in class. All problems should be solved using terminology, ideas, and methods that were introduced in lecture.
      Note: Please carefully read the syllabus. If you have any questions about the syllabus, please come to my office hours.
    Exam 2 Review Packet
    Special Extra Credit
      Please read the following very nice paper on the backward heat equation. You will earn extra credit (and also you will make me very happy) if you come to one of my office hours and explain to me the main ideas discussed in the paper.
    • Backward_Heat
    Homework 6     (Due Wednesday, November 30 at 2pm)
      Note: You may come to my office hours on to present your solution to the question marked in bold (for extra credit).
      Note: You do NOT need to answer the question marked in bold as part of your homework. You will earn extra credit if you come to my extra office hours to present your answer.
      Note: The purpose of homework assignments is to make sure that you know the terminology and specific methods discussed in class. All problems should be solved using terminology, ideas, and methods that were introduced in lecture.
      Note: Please carefully read the syllabus. If you have any questions about the syllabus, please come to my office hours.
    Homework 7     (Not to be turned in)
    Practice Problems    
      Note: Please make sure you are able to solve all problems in the above file (in addition to problems in Review1_Exercises and Review2_Exercises) in preparation for the final exam.
      Note: More information about final exam will be posted to the course Canvas page by Friday morning.
      Note: Please carefully read the syllabus. If you have any questions about the syllabus, please come to my office hours.
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