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Venue:
The class meets in 402 Clapp
Tuesday and Thursday from 2:40 to 3:55,
and at a fourth hour to be arranged.
Text:
James Stewart, Single Variable Calculus,
fourth edition, Brooks/Cole, 1999.
Course description:
We will cover most of Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12 in Stewart.
The material includes
transcendental functions,
techniques and applications of integration,
numerical integration, and the representation of functions
by power series.
We may include other topics, depending on time
availability and student interest.
Homework:
Several homework problems will be assigned in each
lecture. Homework will not be collected, but doing the homework is
essential to learning the material in the course.
Quizzes:
There will be a ten-minute quiz each week
(except exam weeks).
Problems on the quizzes will be very similar
to recent homework problems.
Exams:
There will be three hour exams during the semester,
probably during the weeks of
October 8,
October 29, and
December 3.
There will be a comprehensive final exam during final examination
period.
Technology:
You will need a graphing calculator for this course.
I strongly recommend the TI-85, TI-83, or TI-89.
If you have another calculator, you will need to have access to its
instruction manual. In particular, you will need to know how to use
your calculator to evaluate partial sums of sequences.
Grading:
Your
two lowest quiz grades will be
dropped, and the remaining grades will be weighted as follows to
determine your grade for the course:
| Quiz average | 25% |
| Hour Exam average | 45% |
| Final Exam grade | 30% |
Resources:
My office hours are listed
on my web page
(www.mtholyoke.edu/~quenell);
you are welcome to make an
appointment to talk with me at other times.
The mathematics department sponsors walk-in tutoring
on Sunday through Thursday evenings in Clapp.
Information about
homework assignments, meeting times, and impending hour exams
may be
found at the website
www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/quenell/f2002/ma202/
Issues of Academic Integrity:
You are encouraged to collaborate with your classmates on homework
assignments, as long as the information flow goes both ways. No
collaboration will be allowed on quizzes or exams.
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