Policy on MATLAB Homework Collaboration

You are required to form small teams to collaborate in preparing solutions to the HOLR-based MATLAB problems. No team may contain more than three members. Teams may contain two members. Teams may vary during the semester; that is, if you wish to change the composition of any team, you may do so at any time--of course, while maintaining the limit of three. No other collaboration is permitted. If individuals or teams collaborate without acknowledgement, penalties will be assessed.

You may submit your solutions in one of two ways: (i) the team works together and submits one write-up with all team members listed on the front; or (ii) each team member submits his own write-up, but collaboration is acknowledged by listing the other team members on the front. I prefer the former, since it makes grading more efficient and reveals the teams more clearly. However, if the individualist inside you demands your own version, that is permissible.

You may form your teams as you wish. If you are a loner, or don't know anyone in class, your GA will be willing to assign students to teams. Experience has shown that students who work in teams: adjust to MATLAB's syntax quicker, spend less time in seemingly hopeless dead-ends, learn more, and actually get higher grades. Participation on a team is mandatory.

NOTE: This policy commences with Problem Set B. All students are expected to do Problem Set A on their own.
The grading of Problem Set A will be informal. That grade will not count toward your Matlab Problem Set score (of 150 points).

You will use MATLAB to solve mathematical problems involving ordinary differential equations in this course. There still remains the issue of how you transmit those solutions to others, in particular in what form to hand them in for grading. You should submit your work by creating an "M" file, using individual cells in the "M" file for each problem, and putting the problem number at the beginning of the cell as a comment. (Alternatively, you may create an m-file for each problem.) You can split up a multi-part problem into multiple cells, as long as you label each cell appropriately. Then you should use one of the "publish to html" or "publish to pdf" options to create nice-looking output -- either of which can be displayed by matlab or opened with a web browser or acrobat reader. Then print that file for submission. Your answers should be presented in the order that the problems are assigned. If you use more than one sheet of paper, they should be stapled together. The top of the first page should include: your name, the names of other members of your team, course and section number, your discussion section instructor's name, and the date the assignment is due.