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Venue:
The class meets in 407 Clapp
on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from
10:00 to 10:50.
Text:
James Stewart, Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals,
fifth edition, 2003.
Course description:
We will cover most of Chapters
5, 6, 7, and 11 in Stewart, along with some of Chapters 8 and 10,
if we have time.
The material includes
techniques and applications of integration,
numerical integration, and the
use of series and power series representations of functions.
Homework:
Several homework problems will be assigned in each
lecture. Homework will be due on Wednsedays.
Quizzes:
There will be a ten-minute
quiz in each Wednesday class meeting,
except during exam weeks.
Problems on the quizzes will be very similar (if not identical)
to recent homework problems. There will be no make-up quizzes.
Exams:
There will be three hour exams during the semester,
probably during the weeks of
February 16, March 22, and April 19.
They will be take-home, self-timed exams.
There will be a comprehensive final exam during final examination
period.
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:
| Homework average | 15% |
Quiz average | 20% |
Hour Exam average | 40% |
Final Exam grade | 25% |
Your letter grade for the course will be determined from your numeric
grade as follows.
| If your numeric grade is above |
95 | 90 | 88 | 82 | 80 | 78 | 72 | 70 | 60 |
| your letter grade will be at least |
A | A- | B+ | B | B- | C+ | C | C- | D |
The cut-off points for assigning letter grades will depend on the
distribution of final numeric grades. Your final letter grade may be
higher than the grade indicated above, but it will not be lower.
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
a copy of its
instruction manual. In particular, you will need to know how to use
your calculator to evaluate partial sums of series.
Resources:
My office hours are listed
here;
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 401 and 402 Clapp.
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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