Time flies when you're having fun! As announced in the Syllabus, Exam 2 will be held in the evening of Monday Nov 17. The time of the exam will be 6:30-7:55 PM. Bring your J-Cards for identification.

I will need to hear about all conflicts with the exam time by 4PM Friday Nov.14. To be honored, your conflict must be of an acceptable nature, i.e., a scheduled course or lab, participation in a varsity event, religious obligations.
Sending me an e-mail to zucker@jhu.edu (copy to your TA) is the best means of communication. Give your name, your section number, and specify the conflicting event (e.g., course number and title) and its starting and ending times.

My experience is that in almost all cases where the duration of the event is not too long, conflicts can be accommodated rather easily. In the case of a lab, you can help by seeing whether it's possible to have it on a different day. For more difficult cases, ....

If you have a documented disability or other special need that requires accommodation, I likewise need prior confirmation from Academic Advising by 4 PM Friday Nov 14.

Seating assignments will be by section:

. . . . . Section 1 . . . . . . (TA Romie Banerjee) --------- Remsen 1 CENTER

. . . . . Sections 2 & 3 . . (TA Susama Agarwala) ------- Remsen 1 LEFT

. . . . . Sections 4 & 5 . . (TA Abhishek Banerjee) ------ Remsen 1 RIGHT

Right and left are when facing the front, like at a concert hall.

As described in the syllabus, the exam covers the material from Weeks 5-9 of the course.
Specifically, that's: Chapters 4-6. As advertised, you will be asked this question from 5.4.
The so-called QR decomposition will not be on the exam.

I will hold a review session in our lecture room during our class time on Nov 17, to answer
questions about the material.

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In 1997, I was talking to a student who was a Student Council representative on the
Curriculum Committee of the School of Arts and Sciences. As a biology major, he had taken
110.107, and he told me that he used my exams for 109 to study for the exams in his course.
(At that time, the difference between the content of 107 and 109 was much smaller than it is now.)

He said something like, "You have a reputation for giving hard exams.
However, I disagree; the exams are straightforward if you know what you're doing."

That is exactly how my exams are intended. It doesn't take great inspiration
to solve the problems. It only requires reasonable command of the material.
Just answer the questions that are asked. It may help to follow the instructions.

I don't give practice exams. But here are the links to Exam 2, 2007 and Exam 2, 2006.

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You are strongly advised to work out new problems to prepare for the Exam. Going over the
old assigned problems may help, but you will be asked to do new ones on the Exam. Overall,
the aim is to learn methods, not problem types. Also, keep in mind that nobody will be
telling you which chapter or section each exam problem comes from.

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Steven Zucker