Math 442 Exams
Midterm, Tuesday 11th February
14.00-15.20, Location FRDM 153
The midterm will cover chapters 1, 2, part of 4. (Homeworks
1-5.) It is a closed-book
exam: no books, notes, or calculators may be used. Bring your student id and, if you like, coloured pens/pencils.
The topics covered are:
Konigsberg bridge problem, knight's tour, dice walks,
sprouts, parse trees, alkanes, people at a party, complement,
isomorphic, subgraphs, matrix representations, types of graphs,
Eulerian graphs, Hamiltonian graphs and applications, planarity,
contractible, homeomorphic.
Extra office hour:
Monday 10th February 2.30-3.30pm.
Practice questions:
1.4, 1.5, 1.20, 2.20, 2.33, 4.4 (justify your answer). Answers are
in the back of the textbook.
Some study hints:
- This is a Math Majors course, which means the exam will be
about 50% proofs 50% calculation. You will be expected to prove
results like on the homework, or in class.
- To study efficiently make sure you know the definitions, the
algorithms/methods for computing things, the formulas for
things, and results/proof methods we use most often. Perhaps
write them in your own words, or explain them to a friend.
- Do the lecture examples, practice questions and old homeworks
again without looking at the answers.
- Go through the posted homework solutions to gain another point
of view on solving the questions.
- In the exam: If
you get stuck on a problem in the exam then write down relevant
definitions accurately. This will help to inspire you and pick
up points for working. If you use a result from class say "From
the result in class..." then state the result so the grader
knows this isn't made up.
Final exam, Wednesday 15th April
15.30-18.00, Location BUCH A201
The final will cover the whole course. (Homeworks 1-12.) It is
a closed-book exam: no
books, notes, or calculators may be used. Bring your student id and, if you like, coloured pens/pencils.
The topics covered are:
Office hours:
Practice questions:
Some study hints:
- This is a Math Majors course, which means the exam will be
about 50% proofs 50% calculation. You will be expected to prove
results like on the homework, or in class.
- To study efficiently make sure you know the definitions, the
algorithms/methods for computing things, the formulas for
things, and results/proof methods we use most often. Perhaps
write them in your own words, or explain them to a friend.
- Do the lecture examples, practice questions and old homeworks
again without looking at the answers.
- Go through the posted homework solutions to gain another point
of view on solving the questions.
- In the exam: If
you get stuck on a problem in the exam then write down relevant
definitions accurately. This will help to inspire you and pick
up points for working. If you use a result from class say "From
the result in class..." then state the result so the grader
knows this isn't made up.
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