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Syllabus Math 222
Calculus II Fall 2008
General Information About All Sections
Contact Information
The instructor for your section will
provide you with contact
information.
General Administration of Course: Alex
Feingold
Class Meeting Schedule - All Sections
Section
|
Instructor
|
Meeting Times
|
Room
|
1
|
Prof. David Hanson
|
MWF 8:00 -
9:30
|
S2 - 143
|
2
|
Onur Koksoy |
MWF 9:40 -
10:40
R 10:05 - 11:30
|
S2 - 140
EB - Q23
|
3
|
Alex Feingold
|
MWF 10:50 -
11:50
Tu 10:05 -11:30
|
LH - 4
EB - Q23
|
4
|
Marco Varisco |
MWF 1:10 - 2:10
R 1:15 - 2:40
|
LN - 1120
LN - 1120 |
5
|
Marco Varisco |
MWF 2:20 - 3:20
Tu 1:15 - 2:40
|
LN - 1120
LN - 1120 |
6
|
Thomas Zaslavsky |
MWF 3:30 -
5:00
|
LN - 1120
|
7
|
Marcin Mazur
|
MWF 8:00
- 9:30
|
LH - 3
|
Basic Information
Prerequisite
A grade of D or
better in Calculus I is required but a grade of C or better is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Office Hours
Each instructor will inform you of office
hours or scheduled problem
sessions outside of class times.
Textbook
Calculus
Single Variable by James
Stewart, Sixth Edition,
Brooks/Cole - Thomson Learning Publishing Company, Pine Grove, CA,
2008,
ISBN-10: 0495011614.
Course Contents
Chapters 7 - 12, with some material
deleted. Your instructor may
provide you with a more detailed schedule of what
sections of the book are to be covered on what days. All class sections
will eventually cover the same material, but perhaps
at a different pace and on different days according to the meeting
schedule and holidays.
Grading
Your instructor will tell you how your
grade will be determined, but it
should mainly come from your grades on the three exams and the final
exam. Some percentage of your grade may come from other factors such
as: quizzes, attendance, class participation, homework, and trend
(patterns in
the grades as the semester progresses, for example, steady improvement
is good, but a weak final exam is bad).
There will be
a total of 500 points. There will be 3 exams and one final
exam. The
midterm (Exam 2) counts for 100 points (20%) and the Final Exam counts
for 200 points (40%). Your instructor will tell you
if there will also be quizzes, homework collected, or some other method
of accumulating points.
Exams
There will be 3 exams and one final
exam.
No calculators or
laptop computers will be allowed on exams.
Scientific calculators may be needed for some
homework.
Exam Dates and Content
Exam 1: Sept. 16, 17 or 18 (depending on when
your section meets).
Exam 2 (the common midterm): Tuesday, Oct. 21, 8:30 - 10:00 PM.
Exam 3: Dec. 2, 3 or 4 (depending on when
your section meets).
Final Exam: Dec. 16, 7:00-9:00 PM, LH-1 and LH-8 (depending on your
section).
A detailed content of each exam will be determined one week before the
exam, but we expect it to be as follows:
Exam 1: Sec. 7.1, 7.2*, 7.3*, 7.4*, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8.
Exam 2: Sec. 8.1 - 8.4, 8.7, 12.1 - 12.2.
Exam 3: 12.3 - 12.11, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1-11.4.
The Final Exam will also include material from 11.5 and 10.3,
which will not be on Exam 3.
The Final Exam will be comprehensive, covering the whole course.
Common Midterm and Final
The
midterm for all sections will
be a common
evening
exam in
LH-1 and LH-2 on Tuesday, October
21, from 8:30 to 10:00 PM.
The final exam for
all sections will
be
in a common
evening
exam in
LH-1 and LH-8 on Tuesday,
December 16, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.
The class will be divided to fit in the
two
rooms, so ask your
instructor which room to use.
Other Exams
Exams 1 and 3 will be administered by your instructor in
your usual meeting room.
Exam Conflicts
ANYONE
UNABLE TO TAKE
AN EXAM SHOULD CONTACT THEIR INSTRUCTOR AHEAD OF TIME TO EXPLAIN THE
REASON. NO ONE SHOULD MISS THE
FINAL UNLESS
YOU HAVE A CONFLICT WITH ANOTHER
FINAL EXAM.
IF YOU HAVE SUCH A CONFLICT, YOU
SHOULD TELL YOUR INSTRUCTOR ABOUT IT
AT THE START OF THE SEMESTER.
Some students
may have class schedule conflicts with the evening exam. Arrangements
will be made to accomodate these students so that they
will not have to miss other classes. Notify your instructor immediately
if you have a problem taking the scheduled evening exam. Conflicts
other than class schedule conflicts will not be
accomodated and therefore should be resolved by the student in a timely
manner. Students who miss an exam because of illness must contact
the instructor ahead of the exam (or as soon afterwards as possible)
and
provide proof of the illness (doctor's note or call from health
service).
Withdrawal
The withdrawal deadline is October 24.
You should have your grades for Exams 1 and 2 by then.
General Comments
Regular class attendance is required
for success in this course. Lack
of attendance will most likely result in a lower
grade. When a student does not come to
class, it is a clear message to the instructor that the student does
not think he/she
can teach them. Do you really want to insult the person who will be
grading all your exams? The material is a combination
of theory and calculation, and it is necessary to understand the theory
in order to do sensible calculations and interpret them correctly.
Lectures can be interrupted at any time for questions. At the start of
each class be ready to ask questions about homework problems or about
the previous lecture. A grade of D or
better in Calculus I is required for this course, but a grade of C or better is highly recommended.
If you do not meet that condition, see the instructor immediately for
advice.
University Attendance Policy
Students are expected to attend all
scheduled classes,
laboratories and discussions. Instructors may establish their own
attendance
criteria for a course. They may establish both the number of absences
permitted
to receive credit for the course and the number of absences after which
the
final grade may be adjusted downward. In such cases it is expected that
the
instructor stipulate such requirements in the syllabus and that the
syllabus be
made available to students at or near the beginning of classes. In the
absence
of such statements, instructors have the right to deny a student the
privilege
of taking the final examination or of receiving credit for the course,
or may
prescribe other academic penalties if the student misses more than 25
percent
of the total class sessions. Excessive tardiness may count as absence.
Homework
For each section of material covered
there will be an assignment of
problems from the textbook. Your instructor will tell you whether or
not homework will be collected. Study groups are encouraged, but
students
should not
become dependent on others too much. Watching the instructor, or other
students, do the problems will not be enough to learn the material. It
will be necessary for you to do many exercises yourself in order to be
successful on the exams. Attempts to solve homework problems provide
the best way to learn the
material and to prepare for exams.
A list of suggested homework problems from each section of the book can
be found
through
the following link:
Calculus II Homeworks
Your instructor may assign different problems.
Any cases of cheating
will be subject to
investigation by the Academic Honesty Committee of Harpur College.
Links To Syllabi For Section Instructors
Follow the following links to find webpages for separate sections of
the course:
Section
3: Prof. Feingold's Section
Sections 4 and 5:
Prof. Varisco's Sections
Section 6:
Prof. Zaslavsky's Section
Section 7:
Prof. Mazur's Section
File last modified on 8-25-2008.
We are simply making these tests available as extra study material,
to
illustrate the type and level of question that may appear on tests this
semester. You should NOT expect the questions on your test to
be
restricted to the precise type of questions that you find on the
samples.