M 311                                           Spring 2004
                                                                                
                HOMEWORK SUMMARY REPORT
                                                                                
                                                                                
Chapter number: 8
                                                                                
Section number: 1
                                                                                
Exercise number: 13
                                                                                
Number of papers received: 2
                                                                                
Reviewing committee: Zeta
                                                                                
List all participating committee members:
    Ashley Pagnotta, K. Nicole Clark
                                                                                
                                                                                
Author of paper chosen for publication: John Bosshard [and David White]
                                                                      
Comments: Both of these papers were well done and thoroughly explained.  
The step by step proofs were easy to follow and correct.  They managed to
take a confusing problem and make it understandable.  We chose John's for
publication because we liked his comparison to something we could relate
to (the harmonic oscillator) and his use of differential equations.  We
felt this made it just a little bit clearer than the other paper we
received.

GRADER'S COMMENT:  I respectfully disagree.  I think White is more 
understandable and uses much less space.

INSTRUCTOR'S COMMENT:  So, I'll post both of them.  This is an important 
problem for everyone to understand, and there is more than one correct way 
to look at it.