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Gradescope Homework

After most lectures, you will be asked to complete a homework in Gradescope. Gradescope homework questions can be multiple choice, multiple answer, matching, or fill-in-the-blank style. Each homework assignment will be made available at 10:30 am Pacific Time and they are due on the next day at 11:00 pm.

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Paper-and-Pen Homework  

(Updated 10 May 2023)

Paper-and-Pen assignments should be submitted through Gradescope. You will be automatically enrolled in this course at Gradescope by Jan 25. 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, Part I
      Reading: Please review the contents of the following PDF file.

    • Problem_Solving.pdf (the pdf file has two pages)
    Note: The password can be found in item 6. of the email that was sent to students on Tuesday, 01/17/2023.
    Note: Please complete this reading assignment by Tuesday 01/24/2023. If you have any questions, please come to my office hours.
    Note: Please carefully read the syllabus. If you have any questions about the syllabus, please come to my office hours.
    Homework 0, Part II Note: The password can be found in item 6. of the email that was sent to students on Tuesday, 01/17/2023.
    Note: Please complete the first part of this reading assignment by Monday 01/30/2023. For the second pdf file (introduction to MATLAB) you can wait until after we cover the basics of linear algebra in class. If you have any questions, please come to my office hours.
    Note: Please carefully read the syllabus. If you have any questions about the syllabus, please come to my office hours.
    Special Extra Credit
      Please read Section 1 and Section 2 of the following very nice paper written by Professor Atkinson. 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 what numerical analysis is about. Your presentation can be based on Professor Atkinson's paper. Alternatively, your presentation can be based on what we discussed in Lecture 1. Your presentation should not take more than 2 minutes.
    • Numerical_Analysis.pdf
    Homework 1     (Due Friday, February 3, 1:00 pm New due date: Tuesday, February 7, 1pm)
      Note: Misconception: "Every homework problem must be directly analogous to an example or an exercise solved in class." NO! For some problems you may need to apply what you have learned to something new, make connection between various concepts discussed in class and think about concepts in different ways and from different angles. It is absolutely false (and dangerous) to think that you should be able to solve every homework problem in under 10 minutes, by directly applying algorithms/procedures taught in class. If you want to really learn the lecture topics, you need to work hard every single day.

      Note: If you have any questions about the homework problems, please come to my office hours. If any of the homework problems seems hard or impossible, that just indicates that there is a fundamental problem with your understanding of basics of numerical analysis and mathematical reasoning. By experience I know that dealing with this through email is ineffective. It is not a good idea to answer any questions about homework via email. We should meet up in person (or in zoom) during my office hours to discover what the root of the problem is. Remember, the goal is not just solving the problem; we want to UNDERSTAND the problem and REFLECT on the solution. Please bring your questions to my office hours. There is nothing that I like more than answering your questions about the material covered in Math 150.

      Note: The purpose of this homework assignment 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 Tuesday, February 21, 1:00 pm)
    Special Extra Credit
      Please watch the following incredibly awesome talk by the Professor Kevin Buzzard:
    • What Computers Can't Do
      You will earn extra credit if you come to one of my office hours and explain to me what the P vs NP problem is. Your presentation must be based on Professor Buzzard's talk.
    Homework 3     (Due Tuesday, March 7, 1:00 pm)
    Homework 4     (Due Tuesday, April 4, 1:00 pm)
    Practice Problems    
    Special Extra Credit
      This week we will start talking about polynomial interpolation and spline functions. Please spend about 10 minutes to watch the following four excellent short videos created by Khan Academy (in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios).
    • Pixar - Part 1
    • Pixar - Part 2
    • Pixar - Part 3
    • Pixar - Part 4
      You will earn extra credit if you come to one of my office hours and explain to me how linear interpolation or Bezier curves can be used to animate a bouncing ball.
    Homework 5     (Due Tuesday, April 11, 1:00 pm)
    Homework 6     (Due Tuesday, April 25, 1:00 pm)
    Homework 7     (Due Tuesday, May 9, 1:00 pm)
    Practice Problems (Final Exam)    
    Virtual Office Hours 05/14/2023 - 05/19/2023