Assignments and Exams
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Your assignments are due before class starts on the due date.
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You MUST type up your solutions.
We recommend Latex:
for example,
sample.tex when latex-compiled into pdf produces
this pdf.
If you insist on using Word, here is a helpuful
hint on math symbols in Word.
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You MUST start each problem on a new page. Do not submit code.
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Write well, be brief, and to the point.
Even if your solution is correct, if it is not well written you will not
receive full points.
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You MUST submit pdf electronically (see main page).
We DO NOT accept email-submissions.
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- Assignment format:
- Do: The warm up problems for your own practice, before recitation
section.
- Ask questions: when your TA shows you how to do the
recitation problems in lab, again for your own learning.
- Hand in: Solutions to all the exercises under `Problems'.
If you do not attend recitation lab, do not expect help on the hand-in-problems.
- The problems are numbered in increasing difficulty.
- GRADING: Late assignments will not be graded.
- -20 points for a hand written (not typed up) solution.
- You MUST show your work to get full credit, even for multiple
choice questions.
- Non-multiple choice questions are graded as follows:
- Correct solution (you MUST show your work): 100%
- You made significant progress (you MUST show your work): 80%
- You understood the problem and made a reasonable attempt but something went wrong: 50%
- Not in the right ball park or serious error: 0%
- QUIZZES and EXAMS:
- In-class pop-quizzes: Teams of 2 or 3, open book.
- 3 Quizzes: Closed book
- Cumulative Midterm: in class, closed book, 1 double sided 8.5 x 11 crib-sheet.
- Cumulative Final: Finals week, closed book, 2 double sided 8.5 x 11 crib-sheets.
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Assignments
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Past Quizzes and Exams
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