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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, (read and do problems from 8.5 to get strategy for doing various kinds of integrals), 8.8, 12.1.
Exam 3: 12.2 - 12.11, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1-11.4.
The Final Exam will NOT include material from 11.5 and 10.3.
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 (Sections 3 (Feingold), 4, 5 (Varisco), 6 (Zaslavsky)) and
        LH-2 (Sections 1 (Hanson), 2 (Koksoy), 7 (Mazur))
on Tuesday, October 21, from 8:30 to 10:00 PM.

INSTRUCTIONS:
(1) Bring your BU ID card and be ready to show it at the beginning of the exam.
(2) Come to the exam room for your section by 8:15 PM and wait to be admitted.
(3) Place any notes, books, coats, under an empty adjacent seat, or by a wall.
(4) Turn off or don't bring your cell phone. No music devices or earplugs allowed.
(5) No calculators allowed or needed.
The material covered by this exam includes the following:
Section 8.1: Integration by Parts,
Section 8.2: Trig Integrals (any trig identities needed will be provided.),
Section 8.3: Trig Substitutions,
Section 8.4: Partial Fractions (but not rationalizing substitutions on p. 517),
Section 8.5: Strategy for Integration (students should read and do problems from this section),
Section 8.8: Improper Integrals (all material including comparison test),
Section 12.1: Sequences (all material including monotone sequence theorem and squeeze theorem).

Solutions to the midterm (Exam 2) in a pdf file can be found at the following link:
Exam 2 Solutions

The final exam for all sections will be in a common evening exam in
        LH-1 (Sections 2 (Koksoy), 4, 5 (Varisco), 7 (Mazur)), and
        LH-8 (Sections 1 (Hanson), 3 (Feingold), 6 (Zaslavsky))
on Tuesday, December 16, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.

NOTE: Students who are also in Chemistry 111, whose final exam is scheduled for
this same time, should take the Calculus II Final Exam as scheduled and take the
Chemistry 111 Final Exam on a later date being arranged by the Chemistry Dept.
Any other conflicts should have been discussed already with your instructor, and
arrangements made for a makeup exam.

INSTRUCTIONS:
(1) Bring your BU ID card and be ready to show it at the beginning of the exam.
(2) Come to the exam room for your section by 6:45 PM and wait to be admitted.
(3) Place any notes, books, coats, under an empty adjacent seat, or by a wall.
(4) Turn off or don't bring your cell phone. No music devices or earplugs allowed.
(5) No calculators allowed or needed.

The material covered by this exam may include the following:
Section 7.1: Inverse functions
Section 7.2*: Natural logarithm function
Section 7.3*: Natural exponential function
Section 7.4*: General logarithmic and exponential functions
Section 7.5: Exponential growth and decay
Section 7.6: Inverse Trig functions
Section 7.8: Indeterminate forms and L'Hospital's Rule
Section 8.1: Integration by Parts
Section 8.2: Trig Integrals (some trig identities needed will be provided.)
Section 8.3: Trig Substitutions
Section 8.4: Partial Fractions (but not rationalizing substitutions on p. 517)
Section 8.5: Strategy for Integration (students should read and do problems from this section)
Section 8.8: Improper Integrals (all material including comparison test)
Section 12.1: Sequences (all material including monotone sequence theorem and squeeze theorem)
Section 12.2: Series
Section 12.3: The Integral Test and remainder estimates
Section 12.4: The Comparison Tests
Section 12.5: The Alternating Series Test
Section 12.6: Absolute Convergence and the Ratio and Root Tests
Section 12.7: Strategy for Testing Series (students should read and do problems from this section)
Section 12.8: Power Series
Section 12.9: Representations of functions as power series
Section 12.10: Taylor and Maclaurin Series
Section 12.11: Taylor polynomials (not applications to physics)
Section 9.1: Arc Length
Section 9.2: Area of a Surface of Revolution
Section 11.1: Curves defined by parametric equations
Section 11.2: Calculus with parametric curves (tangents, areas, arclength, surface area)
Section 11.3: Polar coordinates
Section 11.4: Areas and lengths in polar coordinates

Other Exams

Exams 1 and 3 will be administered by your instructor in your usual meeting room.
Exam 3 and the Final Exam will include material on sequences and series. There are two useful documents which will
help you understand what you can use on a test, and how to write your answers. The following links take you to pdf
files which you should study.
Useful Limits to Know
Guide to Checking Convergence/Divergence of Series

If you print out the following pdf file you will find that it contains a polar coordinates grid on which you can conveniently
make graphs of functions given in polar coordinates.
Polar Coordinates Graph.

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.

Sample tests: This directory contains copies of tests that have been given in the past in Math 222 at Binghamton.

WARNING: These tests were given in the past, by different instructors, using different textbooks and different syllabi, at different stages of the semester. The "practice" tests were not given as tests. In most cases there are solutions, either in the same file or in separate files.

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.