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No classes Friday 21 October

Week 6

For most students, Chapters 1 and 2 are easier, but Chapter 3 is the most important part of MATH6040 for third year, so it will have a big focus.

We did a quick revision of integration and anti-differentiation, and then looked at the specific manipulation of completing the square.

Week 7

We will finish talking about completing the square and introduce integration by parts. Integration by parts comes from running the product rule of differentiation backwards.

Outlook

In Week 8 we will look at some applications. We will start Chapter 4 in Week 9, and a sample test for Test 2, on Chapter 3, will appear in Week 9.

Tutorials

The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly. See here for more, including times and venues.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.

Student Resources

Please see  Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.

Test 2

Test 2 is provisionally booked for the Tuesday of Week 12:

However, this is too late, it should be Week 11, but the Melbourn Hall is provisionally unavailable in Week 11.

I will try and book a large IT room for this test, and I will also try and wing us into the Melbourn for 29 November.

So Test 2 is 99% going to be Tuesday 29 November but just in case I have booked the Melbourn for 6 December. This will be finalised by Week 9.

No classes Friday 21 October

The Friday 21 October lecture in B188 is cancelled (not postponed).

The BioEng2B tutorial at 13:00 on Friday 21 October is brought forward to 13:00 on Tuesday 18 October in B240.

Test 1

Results are released with remarks in a Canvas announcement.

Week 5

We finished on matrices, with Cramer’s Rule. In the second Tuesday lecture we had some tutorial time and on Friday we had Concept MCQ on Matrices before doing some revision of integration.

Tutorial time was spent looking at Chapter 2, especially Cramer’s Rule.

Week 6

For most students, Chapters 1 and 2 are easier, but Chapter 3 is the most important part of MATH6040 for third year, so it will have a big focus.

Outlook

In Week 7 we will add two further techniques of integration to your arsenal. In Week 8 we will look at some applications. We will start Chapter 4 in Week 9, and a sample test for Test 2, on Chapter 3, will appear in Week 9.

Tutorials

The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly. See here for more, including times and venues.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.

Student Resources

Please see  Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.

Test 2

Test 2 is provisionally booked for the Tuesday of Week 12:

However, this is too late, it should be Week 11, but the Melbourn Hall is provisionally unavailable in Week 11.

I will try and book a large IT room for this test, and I will also try and wing us into the Melbourn for 29 November.

So Test 2 is 99% going to be Tuesday 29 November but just in case I have booked the Melbourn for 6 December. This will be finalised by Week 9.

Test 1

The test will be the Tuesday evening, 11 October, of Week 5. See Canvas (MATH6040 —> Assignments) for further details.

Week 4

We continued working on matrices. We looked at Matrix Inverses — “dividing” for Matrices. This allow us to solve matrix equations, including linear systems. We also looked at determinants.

Some deeper discussion here: Why do we multiply matrices like we do?, Why can’t I divide by zero?

Week 5

We will continue working on matrices, in particular Cramer’s Rule.

Tutorials

The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.

So far the free choice to attend any of the following is working OK.

• Wednesday 12 pm in B180 (the official SEE2 tutorial slot),
• Wednesday 3 pm in B260 (the official BioEng2A slot)
• Friday 1 pm in B260 (the official BioEng2B + “SEE2 excess” slot)

See here for more.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.

Student Resources

Please see  Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.

Test 2

Test 2 is provisionally booked for the Tuesday of Week 12:

However, this is too late, it should be Week 11, but the Melbourn Hall is provisionally unavailable in Week 11.

When the timetable system is back up and running again I will try and book a large IT room for this test, and I will also try and wing us into the Melbourn for 29 November.

So Test 2 is 99% going to be Tuesday 29 November but just in case I have booked the Melbourn for 6 December. This will be finalised by Week 9.

The manuals are available in the Copy Centre (at a cost of €15). These are needed to participate properly in class.

Test 1

The test will be the Tuesday evening, 11 October, of Week 5. See Canvas (MATH6040 —> Assignments) for further details.

Week 3

We finished Chapter 1, and the material for Test 1, by talking at the applications of vectors to work and moments. We also started Chapter 2, on Matrices.

Week 4

We will continue working on matrices. We will look at Matrix Inverses — “dividing” for Matrices. This will allow us to solve matrix equations. We also looked at determinants.

Some deeper discussion here: Why do we multiply matrices like we do?, Why can’t I divide by zero?

Tutorials

The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.

So far the free choice to attend any of the following is working OK.

• Wednesday 12 pm in B180 (the official SEE2 tutorial slot),
• Wednesday 3 pm in B260 (the official BioEng2A slot)
• Friday 1 pm in B260 (the official BioEng2B + “SEE2 excess” slot)

See here for more.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.

Student Resources

Please see  Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.

Test 2

Test 2 is provisionally booked for the Tuesday of Week 12:

However, this is too late, it should be Week 11, but the Melbourn Hall is provisionally unavailable in Week 11.

When the timetable system is back up and running again I will try and book a large IT room for this test, and I will also try and wing us into the Melbourn for 29 November.

So Test 2 is 99% going to be Tuesday 29 November but just in case I have booked the Melbourn for 6 December. This will be finalised by Week 9.

The manuals are available in the Copy Centre (at a cost of €15). In my opinion the sooner ye purchase them the better, but ye will certainly need them by Week 4.

Tutorials

The official line is that BioEng2A have their tutorial, BioEng2B have their tutorial, and SEE2 have a tutorial, but it is too big, so “The SEE2 excess go to (the) BioEng2B (tutorial)”. I think we have a better set up by allowing all students attend whatever tutorial they want:

• Wednesday 12 pm in B180 (the official SEE2 tutorial slot),
• Wednesday 3 pm in B260 (the official BioEng2A slot)
• Friday 1 pm in B260 (the official BioEng2B + “SEE2 excess” slot)

I think SEE2 students can make all three and BioEng2 students can make two every week, and three some weeks. A number of students have asked can they attend more than one tutorial a week. As long as I can keep getting around to everyone to give one-to-one teaching I am happy with students attending more than one tutorial.

If it happens that the above plan doesn’t work, and some tutorial(s) is too big, I will have to think again.

The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.

Test 1

The test will be the Tuesday evening, 11 October, of Week 5. See Canvas (MATH6040 —> Assignments) for further details.

Week 2

In Week 2 we spoke about vector products: the dot product and the vector product.

Week 3

In Week 3 we will Chapter 1, and the material for Test 1, by talking at the applications of vectors to work and moments

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.

Student Resources

Please see  Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.

Test 2

Test 2 is provisionally booked for the Tuesday of Week 12:

However, this is too late, it should be Week 11, but the Melbourn Hall is provisionally unavailable in Week 11.

When the timetable system is back up and running again I will try and book a large IT room for this test, and I will also try and wing us into the Melbourn for 29 November.

So Test 2 is 99% going to be Tuesday 29 November but just in case I have booked the Melbourn for 6 December. This will be finalised by Week 9.

The manuals are available in the Copy Centre (at a cost of €15) and should be purchased as soon as possible.

Timetable Issues

For this week only, the SEE2 tutorial at 3 pm on Thursday will not go ahead. Instead the SEE2 tutorial will be held in A272 at 12 pm on Wednesday.

Please keep an eye on your email on Monday. If the AV situation is not sorted in A272 by then I will be trying to arrange alternative rooms (which has its own risks).

Week 1

We began our study of Chapter 1, Vector Algebra by studying the difference between a scalar (single number) and a vector (list of numbers). We looked at how to both visualise vectors and describe them algebraically. We learned how to find the magnitude  and direction of a vector, add them and scalar multiply them. We spoke about displacement vectors.

Week 2

In Week 2 we will talk about vector products: the dot product and the vector product.

Test 1

The test will probably be the Tuesday evening, 11 October, of Week 5. Official notice will be given in Week 3. There is a sample test in the notes.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.

Student Resources

Please see  Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.