I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

 Assessment 1 Results

Pending…

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Assessment 2

Assessment 2 will be on the Wednesday of Week 6, 19 October 2016.

The following  group will sit the assessment at 17:15 (arrive around 17:05):

  • COMP1B-X

The following group will sit the assessment at 18:15 (arrive around 18:05)

  • COMP1B-Y

Keep an eye on your CIT Blackboard and email for the latest and definitive assessment information.

Week 5

We finished talking about average and deviation.

Week 6

We will start the third chapter on algebra.

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Assessment 1

These will be corrected this week but I probably won’t have the results until some time next week. I should have Assessment 2 ready at some stage next week.

Assessment 1 has been emailed to all of you. The hand in date in TODAY, Thursday 13 October. Work handed in late shall be assigned a mark of zero.

  • I want you to read the first page carefully. When you start getting down to actually doing the assignment, read the problems carefully
  • the purpose of this assignment is to help with your understanding of the material and hopefully this will end up with you being proficient in its use and able to do well in the final exam
  • you should start right now because you only have two weeks to complete the assignment.
  • yes you can ask me questions about the assignment before, after and sometimes during class (if ye are working on a problem). Also you can ask me questions via email.
  • if you are having problems using Microsoft Excel then you are to email me ASAP and arrange to visit me in my office. You will bring your work on a memory key and we will sort it out
  • The assignment is worth 15%. The question on the final paper will be worth 25% of the 70% — which is 17.5% — on offer on the final paper. Do a good job with this assignment and you should do well on Q.1 on the paper and you might just have 32.5% in the bag before we go onto more technical stuff.
  • MOST IMPORTANTLY — you are welcome to work together. All of you have different data so none of you will have the same answers. Therefore you cannot copy each other. The best way to learn is by teaching.
  • Work submitted after 17:30 on Thursday 13 October will be assigned a mark of zero. Hand up whatever you have on time.

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I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Test 1

The first 15% test will take place at 9 am Tuesday 18 October in B149 (Week 6). You can find a sample in the course notes, after the section on rates of change. It is a test that could arguably take 42 minutes but I’ll give ye from 09.05 — 10.00. You will be given a copy of these tables. Don’t worry I’ll scribble out the “UCC”!

Note that the format will be the same of this.

  1. Differentiation from First Principles
  2. Tangent Lines
  3. Differentiate by Rule
  4. Differentiate by Rule
  5. Differentiate by Rule
  6. Rates of Change/ Geometry of Graph
  7. Rate of Change/ Geometry of Graph

Week 5

In Week 5 we spoke about applications of differentiation to rates of change and finding the maximum/minimum of a function.

Week 6

In Week 6 we will apply what we learned to optimisation problems.

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The following is taken (almost) directly from the first draft of my PhD thesis.

The Quantisation Functor

This functor can be used to motivate the correct notion of (the algebra of functions on) a quantum group. Note that the ‘quantised’ objects that are arrived at via this ‘categorical quantisation’ are nothing but the established definitions so this section should be considered as little more than a motivation. The author feels that introductory texts on quantum groups could include these ideas and that is why they are included here. This quantisation is the translation of statements about a finite group, G into statements about the algebra of functions on G, F(G).

This notion of quantisation sits naturally in category theory where two functors — the \mathbb{C} functor and the dual functor — lead towards a satisfactory quantisation.

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Catch-Up Tutorial for COMP 1B-X

11:00, Tuesday 11 October in D160

Assessment 1

Results out in the next few days…

Assessment 2

Assessment 2 will be on the Wednesday of Week 6, 19 October 2016.

Keep an eye on your CIT Blackboard and email for the latest and definitive assessment information.

Week 4

We looked at tax and interest as well as length and area. We started talking about trigonometry.

Week 5

We will finish off the section on trigonometry and then move onto statistics.

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I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Assessment 1

Assessment 1 has been emailed to all of you. The hand in date in Thursday 13 October. Work handed in late shall be assigned a mark of zero.

  • I want you to read the first page carefully. When you start getting down to actually doing the assignment, read the problems carefully
  • the purpose of this assignment is to help with your understanding of the material and hopefully this will end up with you being proficient in its use and able to do well in the final exam
  • you should start right now because you only have two weeks to complete the assignment.
  • yes you can ask me questions about the assignment before, after and sometimes during class (if ye are working on a problem). Also you can ask me questions via email.
  • if you are having problems using Microsoft Excel then you are to email me ASAP and arrange to visit me in my office. You will bring your work on a memory key and we will sort it out
  • The assignment is worth 15%. The question on the final paper will be worth 25% of the 70% — which is 17.5% — on offer on the final paper. Do a good job with this assignment and you should do well on Q.1 on the paper and you might just have 32.5% in the bag before we go onto more technical stuff.
  • MOST IMPORTANTLY — you are welcome to work together. All of you have different data so none of you will have the same answers. Therefore you cannot copy each other. The best way to learn is by teaching.
  • Work submitted after 17:30 on Thursday 13 October will be assigned a mark of zero. Hand up whatever you have on time.

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I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Catch-Up Tutorial for BioEng 2-B

11:00, Wednesday 12 October in B245

Test 1

The first 15% test will take place at 9 am Tuesday 18 October in B149 (Week 6). You can find a sample in the course notes, after the section on rates of change I think… actually I am not 100% where it is. It is a test that could arguably take 42 minutes but I’ll give ye from 09.05 — 10.00. You will be given a copy of these tables. Don’t worry I’ll scribble out the “UCC”!

Note that the format will be the same of this.

  1. Differentiation from First Principles
  2. Tangent Lines
  3. Differentiate by Rule
  4. Differentiate by Rule
  5. Differentiate by Rule
  6. Rates of Change
  7. Rate of Change/ Geometry of Graph,

but this is dependent on our progress in lectures.

Week 4

In Week 4 we covered the Chain Rule in depth.

Week 5

In Week 5 we will finish off our Chain Rule examples then talk about applications of differentiation to rates of change.

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I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Assessment 1

Assessment 1 will be on the Wednesday of Week 4, 5 October 2016.

The following  group will sit the assessment at 17:15 (arrive around 17:05):

  • COMP1B-X

The following group will sit the assessment at 18:15 (arrive around 18:05)

  • COMP1B-Y

Keep an eye on your CIT Blackboard and email for the latest and definitive assessment information.

Week 3

We started the Assessment 2 material by looking at VAT, Income Tax and Interest.

Week 4

We will continue our work on Chapter 2.

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I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

 Test 1

The first 15% test will take place at 9 am Tuesday 18 October in B149 (Week 6). You can find a sample in the course notes, after the section on rates of change I think… actually I am not 100% where it is. It is a test that could arguably take 42 minutes but I’ll give ye from 09.05 — 10.00. You will be given a copy of these tables. Don’t worry I’ll scribble out the “UCC”!

Note that the format will be the same of this.

  1. Differentiation from First Principles
  2. Tangent Lines
  3. Differentiate by Rule
  4. Differentiate by Rule
  5. Differentiate by Rule
  6. Rates of Change
  7. Rate of Change/ Geometry of Graph,

but this is dependent on our progress in lectures.

Week 3

In Week 3 we covered everything in the notes up to the quotient rule.

Week 4

In Week 4 we will talk about another way of combining functions — composition — and how to differentiate them — the Chain Rule.

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