This is the web page for Section A (with Professor Gryz).
Wednesday: 9am - 11am
Thursday: 11am - 1pm
Friday: 10am - 11am
The best way to contact me is to see me during my office hours.
Please use a York account when sending me email, and start your subject line with "[1019]". Send messages in plain text, without attachments.
If you want to see me outside these times, you can (1) send me email to arrange an appointment or (2) drop by my office whenever I'm in (but if I'm feeling overwhelmed when you do, I may ask you to come back another time).
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Office hours: 4:30-5:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays (Oct 16, 18, 23, 25) at LAS3031.
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Office hours: Monday and Wednesday (Oct 22 and 24) from 16:30 to 18:30 in LAS3031.
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Office hours: Monday 15th 16:00-17:00pm; Tuesday 16th Morning 9:30-10:30am; Wednesday 17th 12:00-13:00pm; and Thursday 18th 3:30-4:30 in Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building (DB) 2003.
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Office hours: Tuesday, Thursday 7PM Lassonde 2053
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Solutions you hand in for homework assignments must be your own work. Although you may discuss the general approach to solving a problem with other people, you should never discuss the solution in detail. You must not take any written notes away from such a discussion, and you should wait at least one hour after the discussion to write down anything about the homework questions. Also, you must list on the cover page of your solutions any people with whom you have discussed the problems. The solutions you hand in should be your own work. While writing them, you may look at the course textbook and your own lecture notes but no other outside sources.
My time is spent more productively for the class's sake in different ways. For pertinent questions on the materials that students send me by e-mail, or for questions that many people seem to be having, I will try to address them in class.
Many students do this already, and it is a good use of my time and theirs. I can usually answer a question a student asks in person in about a tenth the time than by an e-mail exchange. This is because writing it out takes much longer. Also, 80% of the questions people send me, I have no idea what they are asking. We would have to go back and forth by e-mail several times before I get to the bottom of it.
So I do not mind students sending questions by e-mail. By all means, continue. Just do not necessarily expect a direct reply. I do read them, and mostly I try to address the issues and questions people have raised. If your question or issue remains after some time, let me know. For anyone who believes that I am purposely ignoring them, my apologies.
Homework assignments | 20% |
Test 1 | 15% |
Test 2 | 15% |
Test 3 | 15% |
Final exam | 35% |
There will be 10 homework assignments altogether, one per week.
If you miss one of the tests for a justified medical reason, the credit for that test will be transfered to the final exam. For example, if you miss one of the tests, your final exam's weight will be 50%.
Test 1 (in class) | Oct 2 |
Test 2 (in class) | Nov 1 |
Test 3 (in class) | Nov 29 |
Last class | Dec 4 |
Final Exam | Dec |
You do not need to buy the textbook in hardcopy. You should buy (in York Bookstore) Connect software that comes with an e-copy of the textbook. The codes for the software may not be available at the shelf of the bookstore; you may need to ask someone for help with getting them.
When a section is assigned as reading, you should do a significant number of the associated exercises as practice. The homework excercises assigned below should be considered a starting point, but you should do more. (And if you have trouble with one particular exercise, do more similar ones.)
The back of the text contains answers for odd-numbered exercises. (In some cases the answers are very brief to save space; you would be expected to show more work.)
There will be 10 homework assignments that must be done online. You have to register for Connect and submit the homeworks electronically. McGraw-Hill Connect is a learning tool that allows (among other things) automatic homework submission and evaluation.
Date Due | Sections to Read | Homework Assignments |
Sep 18 | 1.1, skim 1.2, 1.3 | on Connect |
Sep 25 | 1.4, 1.5 | on Connect |
Oct 2 | 1.7, 1.8, 2.1 | on Connect (note the deadline is at noon!) |
Oct 16 | 2.2, 2.3 | on Connect |
Oct 23 | 2.4, 2.5 | on Connect |
Oct 30 | 3.2.1-4, 5.1 | on Connect |
Nov 13 | 5.3, 6.1, 6.3 | on Connect |
Nov 20 | 6.4, 8.1 | on Connect |
Nov 27 | 8.2, 9.1, 9.3 | on Connect |