• First meeting: Wednesday, Sept. 2
• Midterm I: To be held in class, Friday, Oct. 2. The material for the midterm is what I will have covered in class up to and including Monday, Sept. 28. This corresponds to sections 1.1–1.5, 1.7–1.9, and 2.1 of the book (i.e. the sections covered by assignments 1–3) (note that sections 2.2 and 2.3 have been removed). The midterm is closed-book and calculators are NOT allowed.
• Midterm II: To be held in class, Friday, Nov. 13th. The material for the midterm is what I covered in class before doing section 5.5 on complex eigenvalues. This corresponds to sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.8–3.2, and 5.1–5.3 of the textbook, together with the material for the first midterm (though the focus will be on new material). Monday, Nov. 9th's class will be a review. The midterm is closed-book and calculators are NOT allowed.
• Final exam: To be held on Thursday, Dec. 17th, 3pm–5pm, in the usual classroom MCS 149. The exam is cumulative: the material is what I covered for Midterm I, Midterm II, and everything since then (i.e. everything I covered in class) except there won't be any problems requiring you to do long division of polynomials (though you may need the rational root test). This roughly corresponds to sections 1.1–1.5, 1.7–1.9, 2.1–2.3, 2.8–3.2, 5.1–5.3, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1–6.3 of the book and the handout on linear recurrence relations available below. As usual, the exam is closed-book and calculators are NOT allowed. I have posted below a pdf file full of practice problems and a pdf file with the answers to these problems. My office hours in the days leading up to the final are:
          MTW 11:00am–1:00pm in my office (MCS 230)