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Text General information sheet Computer accounts & log on Office hours GTA Payam Kavousi (11:30 to 1MW,
rm 223 ) and Wilson (11:15-12, TTH, rm231). Syllabus Tour web site Prerequisites Grade (70% HW & in-class activities, attendance,
15% midterm, final group challenge, 15%) Today – handout first group exercise (due Thursday)
Topics for the day
Geol 351 Graduate Teaching AssistantPayam Kavousi
Tom Wilson, Department of Geology and Geography
Payam Kavousi (rm 223 Brooks) will be available for questions on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30 am to 1 pm.
Take advantage of his experience and bring your questions to him throughout the semester.
If you are going to drop by at other times be sure to check with Payam via email. He may have the additional time.
Purchase as soon as possible!
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Read Chapters 1 and 2 Turn in group problems 1 at the end of the
next class. Will hand out Group Problems 2 next time. We’ll begin some basic review (Chapters 1 &
2) in class Thursday.
Assignment
Using satellites to map groundwater depletionGRACE: gravity recovery and climate experiment
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See http://www.cbsnews.com/news/depleting-the-water/
California’s central Valley
4 year decline - India
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A global problem
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Another problem for general discussion
Some questions
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How could this become a calculus problem?
What assumptions are made in this analysis?
What is a derivative?
Problem 1 for general discussion
Questions to consider
Tom Wilson, Department of Geology and Geography
In what sense is this a calculus problem?
What is the derivative?
What is an unstated assumption in this problem?
Predicting the rate of ice cap retreat
Data plot showing best fit lines based on the linear and polynomial models
Questions to consider
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Another hypothesis
We will come back to these and have you work through some of them later.
Think about those problems and also get started with some review work
Tom Wilson, Department of Geology and Geography
Read Chapters 1 and 2 Look over group problems for discussion Do first 12 problems (in-class set) for
Thursday. Look over the problems in the back of
each chapter. We’ll begin some basic review in class
next time.
Assignment Reminder
Take solace from Churchillfrom Chapter III My Early Life: 1874-1904
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All my life from time to time I have had to get up disagreeable subjects at short notice, but I consider my triumph, moral and technical, was in learning Mathematics in six months. …
When I look back upon those care-laden months, their prominent features rise from the abyss of memory. …
We were arrived in an 'Alice-in-Wonderland' world, at the portals of which stood 'A Quadratic Equation.' …. Further dim chambers lighted by sullen, sulphurous fires were reputed to contain a dragon called the 'Differential Calculus.' But this monster was beyond the bounds appointed by the Civil Service Commissioners who regulated this stage of Pilgrim's heavy journey.
In geomath we must venture forth into those dimly lit chambers to confront the dragons of Differential and Integral Calculus – but not for a while.
Tom Wilson, Department of Geology and Geography