• Dec 20, 2007. On the final exam C started at 150, B at 175 and A at 210.
  • Dec 20, 2007. The IAP makeup class for 18.01 starts at 10:00AM on Jan 7, 2008 in Room 2-102. First year students who receive a D grade may sign up for it before the review session in the UMO 2-108. For most students only exams are required, but some may be required to do additional homework if they did insufficient homework during the term. The class has no lectures; there are review sessions, and then exams are given.
  • Dec 17, 2007. In problem 15 (Final Exam 2006) the area element in polar coordinates is dA=(1/2)r^2 d\theta -- the factor 1/2 is missing from the Solutions-!
  • Dec 17, 2007. Please note that there have been three corrections made to the solutions of Final Exam 2006. See problems 2, 5 and 7.
  • Dec 17, 2007. The solutions to Final Exam 2006 are now posted.
  • Dec 16, 2007. A practice final with solutions has been posted. The solutions to Final Exam 2006 will be posted tomorrow during the day.
  • Dec 12, 2007. Prof. Jerison's extra office hours are 1-2:30pm, Thursday and Friday, Dec 13 and 14, and 3-5pm, Monday, Dec 17, in his office, Room 2-247. If the group is too large, it will move and the location will be posted on the door of 2-247.
  • Dec 8, 2007. Prof. Jerison's office hours are canceled on Monday (12/10) and Wednesday (12/12). Prof. Jerison will have office hours on 12/13, 12/14 and 12/17, the times of which will be specified later.
  • Dec 7, 2007. Last year's Final exam as well as information regarding the final exam and the end of the term is now posted!
  • Dec 6, 2007. The PS8A extra credit problem part c) needs the following correction: the height of Q (which is y_1) should be equal to L/2 + cosha -1 instead of just (L/2 + cosh a). We thank Mirna Slim for pointing out this mistake.
  • Nov 30, 2007. Makeup exam schedule is now posted!
  • Nov 29, 2007. As announced on PS8A and in lecture, Exam 4 takes place in Walker Memorial today, Thursday, during regular class time 1-2pm.
  • Nov 26, 2007. In 4G-5 the answer should be the given integral with limits from 0 to 16, as opposed to 0 to 2 as stated in the solutions. We thank Nathaniel Jay T Salazar for pointing this out.
  • Nov 26, 2007. Unit 4 review is now posted in the handout section!
  • Nov 22, 2007. Practice exams for exam 4 are now posted!
  • Nov 22, 2007. The following mistakes have been found in the notes. We thank Vladimir Sobes for pointing out several mistakes.
  • 2C-13b : the answer is $25,000 as opposed to $250,000.
  • 3A-2e: with the given substitutions u=8-2x^2 we get that the integral is \int u^{-1/2} (-1/4) du as opposed to the stated \int u^{1/2} (-1/4) du, and so when this correct integral is evaluated the final answer is -1/2 \sqrt{8-2x^2}+C.
  • November 20, 2007. David Jerison's office hour for Wed Nov 21 is moved to 3-4pm (from 2-3pm).
  • November 7, 2007. Make-up exam times for exam 3 are now posted under the link make-up exam schedule.
  • November 4, 2007. Exam 3 is in Walker Memorial on Tuesday 11/06/07.
  • November 1, 2007. See handout section for Exam 3 review. Solutions to Part I on PS 6 are also posted under Homework.
  • October 31, 2007. Three practice exams for Exam 3 are now posted.
  • October 24, 2007. Please note that Liat's office is 2-180. Her office hours have changed to Wednesdays 3-4.
  • October 17, 2007. For exam statistics see Exam info and Makeup exam schedule.
  • October 12, 2007. Please see handout section for the review package for Exam 2 and for the ring on a string lecture notes.
  • October 11, 2007. Exam 2 is on Tuesday, October 16. It is NOT in Walker Memorial as incorrectly stated on Problem Set 4. If your lastname starts with a letter A-F go to 54-100, if with G-M go to E25-111, if with N-P go to E25-117, if with Q-Z go to 2-190.
  • October 6, 2007. Josephine's office hours are canceled for the week of October 8th. She will hold extra office hours on Monday 10/15/07 from 3-4pm in 2-348.
  • October 5, 2007. Problem set 4 is now posted. Practice exam 2a is posted. Next week two more practice exams will be posted.
  • October 4, 2007. Jeremy's office hours are now Tuesdays 2-3 and Thursday 3-5.
  • October 4, 2007. Please see the correction to problem 1 c) on Problem set 3. Reload the page to make sure you get the new version.
  • October 2, 2007. The last two makeup exams will take place October 3rd, Wednesday, at 4:10pm in 4-370 and at 7:45pm in 4-270.
  • September 28, 2007. The following mistakes have been found in the notes. We thank Vladimir Sobes for pointing out several mistakes.
  • G (24) page 8, should say $-\pi/2 \le y \le \pi/2$ (y not x)
  • 1H-3b solution: replace -x^2 with x^2 in each occurrence
  • 2B-1e solution: increasing on both intervals x < -4 and x > -4
  • 2B-7b solution: limit of \Delta y/\Delta x (not \Delta x/\Delta y)
  • 2A-12b solution: \ln(1+x)/xe^x \approx (x-x^2/2)/[x(1+x)] = (1-x/2)(1+x)^{-1} \approx 1-(3/2)x (need quadratic approximation to \ln(1+x) to get linear approx to this ratio)
  • 2B-1b solution: y' = 4x^3 -4 (not x^3-4) so the critical point is at x=1 and 4^{1/3} should be replaced by 1 in several places, critical value y(1) = -2. The graph does cross the x-axis (exactly twice), and the picture is wrong.
  • September 28, 2007. Problem set 3 is now posted!
  • September 25, 2007. There is another makeup exam on Monday October 1, 2007 at 7:45pm in 10-250. Please note the roomchange.
  • September 21, 2007. The final exam will be held in Johnson on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 from 9AM to noon.
  • September 21, 2007. Problem set 2B is now posted!
  • September 19, 2007. Exam 1 is on Friday September 21, 2007 at 2pm. If your lastname starts with the letters in the interval A-G you need to go to 54-100, if your lastname starts with the latters in the interval H-O you need to go to E25-111 and if your lastname starts with the latters in the interval P-Z you need to go to 2-190 in order to take the exam.
  • September 18, 2007. Jeremy's office hours are changed to Tuesdays 4-5, Thursdays 2-4.
  • September 17, 2007. Practice Exam 2 is now posted!
  • September 17, 2007. Problem set 2A has now been posted, as well as the solutions to Problem set 1.
  • September 15, 2007. Practice Exam 1 is now posted!
  • September 5, 2007. Please note that the lectures are held in 54-100 (as opposed to 10-250).


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