Math 8 Homework #8

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking,
are willing to pay the price.
Juvenal

Reading

Read what we will cover in class on Friday: 11.3
Read what we will cover in class on Monday: 11.4

When reading 11.3 pay special attention to the following concepts:

  • nonnegative series, the comparison test, the integral test, p-series, the ratio test.
    try to look through at least one example of each carefully.
When reading 11.4 pay special attention to the following concepts:
  • series that are not nonnegative, conditional convergence, absolute convergence, the relation between absolute and conditional convergence, alternating series.

Problems

The following problems are due by the beginning of class on Monday 1/25.
  • 11.2: 9, 10, 11, 13, 18, 20, 21, 26, 29, 30, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43.