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Week 3
We looked at models that are not linear but log-linear. We will have had two hours of tutorial time (the lecture tomorrow will be a tutorial on linear models).
Week 4
We will start the mathematical background for Chapter 2 and will possibly start looking properly at applications to beams: in particular at simply supported beams. We will probably have a normal lecture on Friday.
Assessment 1
Assessment 1 is now up on Canvas. It has a hand up date the Friday of Week 5, 11 October.
Academic Learning Centre
I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions.
Student Resources
Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Week 2
We continued talking about (linear) Least Squares curve fitting.
We had one and a half classes of tutorials.
Week 3
We will start the next section on models that are not linear but log-linear (after the very short section on correlation). We will aim for one and a half to two classes of tutorials.
Academic Learning Centre
I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there ith specific questions.
Student Resources
Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Manuals
The manuals are available in the Copy Centre. Please purchase ASAP. More information on Canvas
Week 1
We covered Lagrange interpolation and started the theory for Least Squares curve fitting.
Apologies about the cancelled lecture on Thursday. Unfortunately, unless we go to Friday afternoon, we have no chance of rescheduling. Last year’s class lost out on Bank Holiday Mondays (and we won’t) so I don’t see this being a huge issue. Just an unfortunate misstep in Week 1.
Week 2
We will continue talking about Least Squares curve fitting. We will have our first tutorial too.
Assessment 1
Assessment 1 has a provisional hand-in week of Week 5. Once the class list is established I can send on the student-number-personalised assessment.
Academic Learning Centre
I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there ith specific questions.
Student Resources
Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Assignment 2
Has been corrected, and can be viewed Friday 1 December and maybe two classes next week.
Student Feedback
If you would like to give fully anonymous feedback on this module and my teaching please go here.
Week 11
We had one final bit of stats tutorial time on Monday. Then we finished Chapter 4 in two and a half classes, so had the first of our revision tutorials on Friday.
Weeks 12 and 13 to 11 December
All classes go ahead:
Academic Learning Centre
I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions.
Student Resources
Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Assignment 2 — DUE TODAY FRIDAY 24 November
Assignment 2 based on Chapter 2 is on Canvas now: Canvas —> MATH7019 —> Assignments.
Student Feedback
If you would like to give fully anonymous feedback on this module and my teaching please go here.
Week 10
We looked at hypothesis testing. There was a tutorial on sampling on Wednesday, and a little tutorial time for full exam questions on Thursday and then more tutorial time on Friday.
Week 11
We will have one final bit of tutorial time on Monday. Then we have three classes to try and see can we finish Chapter 4. If we don’t we have two more classes in Week 12. The second part of Chapter 4 is actually second year material. The first part is Euler’s Method: done.
Any classes left over in these five classes will be revision tutorials. Then we have another four review classes which will be given over to tutorial time.
Academic Learning Centre
I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions.
Student Resources
Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Assignment 2
Assignment 2 based on Chapter 2 is on Canvas now: Canvas —> MATH7019 —> Assignments. It is due this week.
Assignment 1
In Winter 2021, this was the Final Grade vs Assignment 1:
What we see is that, roughly, on average, is that a prediction for your final grade, based on your Assignment 1 performance, is half of your Test 1 score +14. This means that people who got below about 52% on Assignment 1 are predicted to fail. I want the people in this area to push themselves to the green region. These are students who are predicted to fail but go on to pass. To do this, students have to continue coming to lecture and tutorials, and perhaps also look at attending the Academic Learning Centre Links to an external site.. They will also want to do very well on Assignment 2.
I also want people in the 50-80% range not to get complacent. Students in this range are predicted to pass, but you can see students in the orange region who did OK in Assignment 1 but went on to fail or nearly fail. These students need to continue coming to class, especially tutorials.
Assignment 2 is now available. Ye can do start Problems A to C already. If you want to start Problem D ahead of Week 8 you can learn about Euler’s Method in videos 27 to 29 in the lecture video playlist.
Week 9
We looked at the normal distribution (more calculation focused), and then looked at at sampling.
We had no tutorial.
Week 10
We will finish Chapter 3 and start Chapter 4 on Friday.
We will have tutorial time on Wednesday and again on Thursday.
Academic Learning Centre
I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions.
Student Resources
Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Assignment 2
Assignment 2 based on Chapter 2 is on Canvas now: Canvas —> MATH7019 —> Assignments. It is due in two weeks.
Assignment 1
In Winter 2021, this was the Final Grade vs Assignment 1:
What we see is that, roughly, on average, is that a prediction for your final grade, based on your Assignment 1 performance, is half of your Test 1 score +14. This means that people who got below about 52% on Assignment 1 are predicted to fail. I want the people in this area to push themselves to the green region. These are students who are predicted to fail but go on to pass. To do this, students have to continue coming to lecture and tutorials, and perhaps also look at attending the Academic Learning Centre Links to an external site.. They will also want to do very well on Assignment 2.
I also want people in the 50-80% range not to get complacent. Students in this range are predicted to pass, but you can see students in the orange region who did OK in Assignment 1 but went on to fail or nearly fail. These students need to continue coming to class, especially tutorials.
Assignment 2 is now available. Ye can do start Problems A to C already. If you want to start Problem D ahead of Week 8 you can learn about Euler’s Method in videos 27 to 29 in the lecture video playlist.
Week 8
We did some Euler’s Method on Monday. A lot of students had a catch up tutorial later on Monday. We had some other tutorial time, but then also had a Concept MCQ and finished Chapter 2 and began Chapter 3, by talking about probability theory, notably mutual exclusivity and independence of events (and of random variables).
Week 9
We will look at the normal distribution (more calculation focused), and then start looking at sampling.
We will probably have no tutorial.
Academic Learning Centre
I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions.
Student Resources
Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Week 7
We finished looking at fixed ends and cantilevers, with some tutorial time, maybe a class and a half.
We had planned to look at Euler’s Method on Friday so that any student could in theory do all of Assignment 2 over the reading break. We changed our mind on this to have an extra tutorial
Assessment
Assignment 1 corrections will be completed at some point in the reading week.
Assignment 2 is now available. Ye can do start Problems A to C already. If you want to start Problem D ahead of Week 8 you can learn about Euler’s Method in videos 27 to 29 in the lecture video playlist.
Week 8
We will have a tutorial on Monday, and then possibly a catch up tutorial at 3 pm in B241L (watch your email).
But then we have to cover Euler’s Method and start Chapter 3.
Academic Learning Centre
I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions.
Student Resources
Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Week 6
We had some tutorial time working on simply supported beams and looked at fixed end beams in the lecture time.
Week 7
We will finish looking at fixed ends and cantilevers. We will start looking at Euler’s Method on Friday. There will get some tutorial time in too. Then ye will have your reading week.
Assessment
Assignment 1 corrections should be completed at some point in the reading week.
Assignment 2 is now available. Ye can in theory start Problems A and B already, and Problems C and D by the end of the week.
Academic Learning Centre
I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions.
Student Resources
Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
There is no catch-up class next week: this is postponed now to some Monday on or after 20 November
Assignments
I believe everyone has submitted (or has submitted on Canvas and just have to submit their hard-copy report). Assignment 2 should be posted this week or next week. At this time I will not make a prediction for when these will be corrected.
Week 5
We started looking properly at applications to beams: to simply supported beams. We had no tutorial time.
Week 6
We will look at fixed ends and maybe cantilevers. We might have some tutorial time.
Week 7
We will finish looking at cantilevers. We will start looking at Euler’s Method. There might only be one tutorial. Then ye will have your reading week.
Academic Learning Centre
I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions.
Student Resources
Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
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