Math 251 (Phillips) Final exam

Information and material covered

The final exam will be on Friday 23 May in class, using the whole period. No early start It will allow a standard size page (8.5 by 11 inches) of notes, written on both sides, but no calculators or other electronic devices. It will be cumulative, but with emphasis on course material since Midterm 2.

A course summary is here. Besides a general summary, it has a condensed review of all the methods we have seen of finding limits. Limit problems on the final exam will not tell you which method to use. In particular, trying to use L'Hopital's Rule on limits not of indeterminate form is a very expensive error, costing many points. It can be avoided simply by remembering to check the conditions for L'Hopital's Rule before trying to use it.

New topics since Midterm 2:

The exam will have at least one of each of the following kinds of problems:

Review session

The review session is Thursday 5 June 6--8:50 pm, 105 Fenton.

Sample Problems

There are seven primary sources for sample problems for the final exam:

Of course, you should also know how to do all the Midterm 0 problems. Note, though, that the the final exam problems will be in format much more like the problems in the first list above.

Real final exam

The real exam and its solutions will not be posted until after the exam is administered.

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Last significant change 8 June 2025.