Grades have been posted. Please check My UCSC for your grades. Finals and other submitted work will be made available for your pickup at some point early next term. Please check this page or the mirror at http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/UCSC/Econ101/ for dates and other information.
The answers have really been uploaded. Sorry! (2007-12-18 01:26)
Suggested answers to the final exam have been posted. Please direct questions about the content of the exam to the instructor, Prof. Turnbull. Questions about grading policy or the extra credit will not be considered until grades have been released. (2007-12-15 18:15)
The really old news gets moved to the bottom of this page.
If links do
not work on the people.ucsc.edu site, please try my
mirror
site at Tsukuba.
You can view the syllabus as HTML or download it as PDF for Acrobat.
You can view instructor contact and schedule information.
Here are the section times and meeting places:
| Resource | Day | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| TA Office Hours | Wednesday | 01:00pm--03:00pm | Engineering 2, Rm 408 (ext. 95105) |
| Section | Wednesday | 09:30am--10:40am | Engineering 2, Rm 192 |
| Section | Thursday | 02:00pm--03:10pm | Earth & Marine, Rm B214 |
| Final Examination Review | Friday, December 7 | 02:00pm--03:15pm | Engineering 2, Rm 194 |
The final exam will be held on December 12 at 12:00 in the usual classroom.
Suggested answers to the final exam are available for download.
Solutions to the midterm given on November 8 are available for download.
Solutions to the alternate midterm given on November 7 (to students travelling on business on November 8) are available for download. The questions on the two midterms are different.
Note that the answers are intended for study purposes (and thus may include information not necessary to get full marks), and were written in a hurry (and so may omit "obvious" information that is needed to get full marks). If you have a question about how a particular problem would be graded, please ask the TA or the instructor.
There are instructions for doing and submitting homework, in HTML and PDF formats. Here are the homework assignments, by due dates:
These notes are rather incomplete; you should consider notes taken in class and the textbook the primary sources. Downloadable files are OHPs (in PDF file format, for Adobe Acrobat Reader and similar viewers), unless otherwise mentioned.
Sample final exam has been posted. Warning: This exam is probably somewhat shorter than the real exam will be.
Typo in due date of Homework #6 has been fixed and posted. (2007-12-01 11:48)
Homework #6 has been posted. Homework #5 has been reposted with and without answers. (2007-11-30 21:26)
The list of proposed and approved topics has been updated. As of now I'm going to stop posting notices of updates here. Please check the list, which is dated. (2007-11-26 20:32)
A review session has been scheduled and the room assignment confirmed. (2007-11-26)
Warning: Don't propose multiple extra credit topics! The extra credit assignment has been revised to explain why. The list of proposed and approved topics has been updated. (2007-11-24)
The list of proposed and approved topics has been updated. (2007-11-26 18:55)
The list of proposed and approved topics has been updated. (2007-11-26 16:27)
The list of proposed and approved topics has been updated. (2007-11-26 15:31)
The list of proposed and approved topics has been updated. (2007-11-26)
Homework 5 has been posted. (2007-11-21)
Extra credit has been posted. (2007-11-21)
Solutions to the examination problems have been posted. (2007-11-09)
Answers to Homework 4 have been posted in the homework section below. (2007-11-06)
Office hour schedule is changed. Regular morning office hours are Tuesday and Thursday 9:15-9:45. They will usually start 5-10 minutes earlier depending on Hwy 17 traffic, but end at 9:45 sharp (even in mid-sentence)! Regular afternoon office hours are Tuesday and Thursday 12:45-1:45. (2007-10-30)
Partial Notes for Nov. 6 (lecture 12) are available. (2007-11-06)
Answers to the first three homework sets have been posted in the homework section below. (2007-11-05)
The midterm examination is scheduled for November 8, in class. (2007-10-23)
Homework 4 is available for download. (2007-10-30)
Ad hoc drop-in office hours this week are Thursday, Nov. 1, 1:45-2:45 (extending regular office hours by 1 hour). (2007-10-30)
Some Notes for Oct. 30 (lecture 10) are available. (2007-10-29)
Homework #3, due Oct. 30, is now available. (2007-10-23)
Notes for Oct.~23 are coming soon. (2007-10-23)
Midterm course evaluations will be conducted on October 25, in class. These are informal evaluations of the course and/or instructor by the students to give the instructor mid-course feedback. I would appreciate your participation. (2007-10-23)
Ms.~Malheiros is still traveling; she returns late tonight. Schedule will return to normal starting October 24 in the afternoon. (2007-10-23)
Preliminary notes for Lecture 6 are now available. (2007-10-15)
Ms. Malheiros will be traveling this week and early next. (2007-10-13)
turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp is down until at least
Sunday night, Oct. 14. (2007-10-12)
It's back up now. (2007-10-15)
The homework due Oct. 23 is now available. (2007-10-13)
Instructions for doing and submitting homework are available in HTML and PDF formats. (2007-10-13)
Preliminary notes for Lecture 5 are now available. (2007-10-11)
The homework due Oct. 16 is now available. (2007-10-11)
Some lecture notes now available. See Resources, below. (2007-10-08)
My UCSC resources (email and home page) seem to be working. I am considering expanding that to WebCT next week. Watch this space for more news! (2007-10-08)
I have a University user name: sturnbul (note,
only one "l"). My University email is
sturnbul@ucsc.edu
and is working. My home page is
http://people.ucsc.edu/~sturnbul/, but it's not
working properly yet. (2007-10-03)