Math 121-H Documents
Syllabus (PDF)
M. C. Escher site
Exam #1 (PDF)
Solutions for Exam #1 (PDF)
Exam #2 (PDF)
Solutions for Exam #2 (PDF)
Exam #3 (PDF)
Solutions for Exam #3 (PDF)
Exam #4 (PDF)
Solutions for Exam #4 (PDF)
Final Exam (PDF)
Solutions for Final Exam (PDF)
Project #1 (PDF)
Project #2 (PDF)
Project #3 (PDF)
Project #3 Sample Spreadsheet
HW #1 (due Monday, September 6): page 5, #5, page 8, #1, 2
HW #2 (due Monday, September 13):
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Take five capital letters (using a simple font) and describe all
of their symmetries.
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Describe what happens to a planar figure when you perform a
reflection across the x-axis and then rotate counter-clockwise by
90 degrees around the origin; what is the simplest way to describe the
result?
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Find all the symmetries for a rectangle that is not a square,
and write a multiplication table for them.
HW #3 (due Monday, September 20): Larson, page 672, #7-12
HW #4 (due Monday, September 27): Larson, page 691, #25, 26, 37--40
HW #5 (due Monday, October 4):
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Describe the result of rotating the plane around the point (2,
3) by 90 degrees and then reflecting the plane across the line y
= 4. State the result as a formula: what does (x, y) get
sent to?
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Find A/P^2 for the rectangle with vertices (1, 3), (1, 5),
(-2, 3), and (-2, 5).
HW #6 (due Monday, October 11):
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Find the second differences for the following heights:
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Time (seconds)
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Height (meters)
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0
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100.0
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1
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100.1
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2
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90.4
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3
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70.9
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4
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41.6
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5
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2.5
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Find a quadratic polynomial that models the data in the first
problem, i.e., a quadratic polynomial whose input is time and whose
output is height.
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Larson, page 102, #17, 18, 21, 22
HW #7 (due Thursday, October 21): Larson, page 113, #39, 42, page 124, #1, 2, 7, 8, page 54, #1, 2
HW #8 (due Monday, October 25): Larson, page 55, #23, 24
HW #9 (due Monday, November 1): Larson, page 181, #15-18
HW #10 (due Monday, November 8): Larson page 189, #13, 14, 31, 32, page 208, #11, 12
HW #11 (due Monday, November 15): Project 1.7 on page 45 of modeling reading
HW #12 (due Monday, November 22): Larson, page 249, #21-26, 35-38, 49-52
HW #13 (due Monday, November 29): Larson, page 261, #21, 22, page 272, #15, 16, 27, 28, 37, 38, page 284, #9, 10, 13, 14, 39, 40
The second day of class:
Jeffrey Clark
September 25, 2009