MTH1010 Section M1: NO HOMEWORK. BRING WHATEVER WORK YOU HAVE DONE ON RESEARCH PAPERS TO CLASS AS A DAILY GRADED TASK.
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MTH0100 Section A1: p. 279: #68-73; 76. (We worked #70 in class).
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MTH1010 Section E1: p. 293: #43-62. BRING WHATEVER WORK YOU HAVE DONE ON RESEARCH PAPERS TO CLASS AS A DAILY GRADED TASK.
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MTH0100 Section M2: p. 470: #17-28
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MTH1010 Section A2: p. 377: #27-30; p. 387: #15-18.
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I also want to take a moment to make mention of Hurricane Camille, one of the most severe and devastating hurricanes to ever make landfall on the U.S. Coast. On the night of August 17, 1969, Camille slammed ashore at Pass Christian, Mississippi as a Category 5 storm.
My life-long love of weather was given a boost by a NOAA film, A Lady Named Camille, which our third-grade science class was treated to back in 1974. It was the first time I saw a satellite film loop of a hurricane and I was hooked! At 
the time, my family lived in Virginia and the remnants of Camille produced widespread flooding that I was too young to remember at the time. Nearly 400 people died in the U.S. due to Camille. The Richelieu apartment building in Pass Christian became the poster child as to why one should NEVER throw a hurricane party during a landfalling storm -- only one person, Mary Ann Gerbach, survived when she floated out of the collapsing building on a matress. Some dispute this claim, however, but Ms. Gerbach continues to tell her story.
I have never been to Mississippi OR Louisiana but from reports, damage leftover from Camille's landfall remains to this day. I remember seeing pictures of tugboats and tankers pushed far inland on Camille's 22-foot storm surge. One of the more 
bizarre images was that of the boat below, that sat off Highway 90 for nearly 30 years after the storm made landfall. Other marine vessels resided in yards and across homes for months afterwards.
The name "Camille" almost didn't happen for the hallmark storm of the 1969 season. Back in those days, the names were determined by staff at the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables. For the 1969 year, John Hope, who did tropical weather duties for many, many years at The Weather Channel before his death, mentioned that his daughter was named Camille and that is how the name made it on to the tropical cyclone list for that year.
Still...the storm came perilously close to being named "Debbie", the next name on the list. In the post-analysis for the 1969 season, it was determined that there was an un-named tropical system that was not detected at the time...but it COULD have been given the Camille designation if it HAD been detected, which meant that the hurricane we all know as Camille could have been named Debbie.
A Lady Named Camille documented the landfall and after-effects of this great hurricane. With a central pressure of 905 mb and winds estimated to be spinning around the center at nearly 200 mph, Camille was, at one time, the second most-intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin (it now ranks 7th on the list) and still ranks as the second-most intense tropical cyclone to ever make landfall on the U.S. coast. Only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane was stronger at time of landfall. It sure made an impression on me.
If your curiosity is piqued, an internet web search will link you to several articles memorializing this great hurricane. If you have the time, you might find them educational -- and interesting.
The picture above of Camille spinning off the coast of Cuba and Florida is one of my favorite hurricane photos of all time. My former boss at the Weather Service, who was Deputy MIC of the Hurricane Center at one time, had a the original picture in his files and I used to love looking at it. To me, Camille looks like a buzzsaw. Hurricanes are beautiful, but deadly, phenomena.
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