Class: Meets MWF 3:30-4:20pm in Oldfather 827
Office Hours: My regular office hours will be MWF 10:30-11:30. But please don't hesitate to stop by my office at other times with any questions you may have.
Analysis Webnotes: The text for this course is Analysis WebNotes.
Analysis Lab: The Analysis Lab will not run in the Spring, but you can work lab questions off the web. I also encourage people to visit me in my office hour to discuss lab questions.
Homework: Homework will be assigned roughly every other week, for a total of 7 or 8 assignments. You should look for the homework assigments on WebNotes Homework. The solutions will go on-line on the day I collect in the homework!
Discussion Questions: I will also assign extra-credit discussion problems, which are part of WebNotes. These are going to be really hard questions! The idea isn't so much for you to solve them completely, but more to stimulate you to think about the various approaches you might take in solving them. I'd expect that only after a discussion has looked down various avenues, will you come up with a solution.
The way the discussion works, is that you can type comments into your web page, and add them to the record of the on-going discussion. A Discussion will evelove over several days, as different people submit their ideas. I'll assign extra credit for reasonable participation in the discussion as much as for how close you come to the solution.
Interactive Demonstations: Scattered through WebNotes you'll find demonstrations where you can experiment with a concept by verying parameters, or drawing a graph or whatever. Look out for these, and play with them when you find them!
Exams: There will be two exams during the semester, and one final exam. All exams will be two-hour, closed book exams.
| Exam 1: | Wednesday, February 18 | 6:00-8:00pm |
| Exam 2: | Wednesday, April 1 | 6:00-8:00pm |
| Final: | Friday, May 8 | 3:30-5:30pm |
Solutions to the exams will be available at the WebNotes exams section after each exam.
Quizzes: There will be a short (5 to 10min) quiz every Friday. The quizzes will be on the definitions and statements of theorems, etc that we have covered in the recent past, or else maybe they'll ask you to give an example of something with a particular property we've been studying.
The reason I think these quizzes are helpful for you is that this course is very linear---the results we prove one week will depend on what we did the previous week. So it might be that you can put off till the exams learning how the proofs work, but if you don't stay up to date with what the definitions and theorems are saying then I'll really be speaking greek to you!
No quizzes on exam weeks!
Grading Policy: The following table shows how points will be awarded over the course:
| number | points | total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exams 1&2 | 2 | 100 | 200 |
| Final | 1 | 100 | 100 |
| Homework | 7 | 45 | 315 |
| Quizzes | 10 | 10 | 100 |
| TOTAL | 715 |
There will probably be more than 10 quizzes---I'll drop your score on the lowest ones to leave ten. Your final grade will be based on your percentage score out of this total.
426 vs. 826: I will be giving the same exams and assignments to those taking 426 and 826. However, at the end of the course I will be curving the grades differently. I will set the cut-offs for each letter grade about 10% lower for 426 than for 826.
Departmental Grading Appeals Policy:
Students who believe their academic evaluation has been prejudiced or
capricious have recourse for appeals to (in order) the instructor,
the departmental chair, the departmental appeals committee and the
college appeals committee.
Analysis WebNotes by John Lindsay Orr.
Comments to the author:
jorr@math.unl.edu
All contents copyright (C) 1995 John L. Orr
University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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Last modified: August 23, 1997