Info for week 15 of MA 366
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Find a low-energy pep-talk version of
this email at

https://www.math.purdue.edu/~bell/MA366/PepTalks/

This week, Lessons 37 and 38 continue
the basics of Laplace transform that I
started in Lesson 36 before Thanksgiving.
This is the "frosting on the cake" that I
promised you. I have added some practice
problems about the Laplace transform at
the end of the homework list. These are
not to be turned in, but are worth doing.
There will be one question on the final
exam about Laplace transform of a very
rudimentary type.

HWK 12 is the last homework assignment
and is due Wed, Dec 2 at 11:00 pm. It is
only two problems.

I will hold office hours as usual this
week in my WebEx meeting room at

https://purdue.webex.com/join/bell

I will release the final exam to you on
Monday, Dec 7 at 1:00 pm and it will be
due in Brightspace by Thurs, Dec 10 at
10:00 pm. It is a 20 question multiple
choice exam that can be done in less than
two hours. I will give you up to three hours
to do it (in one sitting).

You will turn in your exam in two separate
parts uploaded to Brightspace. The first part
is a one page PDF of your answers in the form
of twenty lines containing

[problem number] [answer letter]

like this:

1 E
2 B
3 A
...etc.

The second part will be a separate scanned PDF
of your handwritten work. If you want to print
the exam, you can show your work on the exam
sheets (minus the cover sheet). You can also
choose not to print the exam and write your
work on separate sheets of paper and then
scan them to PDF. In that case, do not include
the exam in your scan to keep the file size
down.

During the exam, you can consult:

Our textbook, Boyce and DiPrima.

A freshman calculus book.

Your own notes for MA 366 and the notes
and videos of my lectures on the home page.

You can use a calculator, but you shouldn't
need to.

No computer technology this time. (In particular,
no pplane or dfield, no googling, symbolab, or
Wolfram alpha, etc.)

Ask questions about the exam via Private Piazza
posts or emails to me.

Best wishes for a reasonable end to this
semester.

-Steve Bell

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Week 15 work

Watch the videos for Lesson 37, 38 and 
the two review lectures. Read 6.1 - 6.5 on
the Laplace transform.

HWK 12 is due Wed, Dec 1

9.3  p. 415: 8a-d
9.4  p. 426: 3a-e

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Please grade your exam 2 papers and input
your score in the Survey on Brightspace by
Friday, Dec 4.

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