Calculus II

C'06 Course Information

MA1022 Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri

Sections C01 to C05, 1:00 pm, Atwater Kent 116



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I n s t r u c t o r : Vadim V. Yakovlev Office: SH104C Phone: x5495 E-mail: vadim@wpi.edu	Office hours: Tue: 4:00-4:50 pm; Thu: 2:00-2:50 pm; Fri: 3:00-3:50 pm; and by appointment	Conferences (on Tuesdays): C01: 9:00-9:50 am (SH309) C02: 10:00-10:50 am (SH106) C03: 11:00-11:50 am (SH106) C04: 12:00-12:50 pm (SH106) C05: 3:00 - 3:50 pm (HL154)

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Syllabus

Upon completing the course you'll be able to evaluate indefinite and definite integrals using substitutions or integration by parts technique.

• 4 lecture classes a week (28 classes incl. 3 tests);
• 1 computer lab session a week (6 labs);
• 1 conference a week (7 meetings).

Quizzes and tests will have their own 30 and 100 point scores respectively. The perfect scores correspond to the presented percentages.

Point ranges derived to percents for grades are given by: A: 100 - 90.00%; B: 89.99 - 80.00%; C: 79.99 - 70.00%; NR: 69.99

Conference meetings will be held once a week to facilitate your learning and help you with homework. They will be run under the guidance of Daniel Onofrei, the course TA.

There are also two PLAs working on this course, Charles Gammal and Xinjia Liu. They will be running two 2-hour Help Sessions (on Wednesdays and Sundays).

The labs are arranged to provide you with initial information about Maple Computer Algebra System and its use in the problem related to the Integral Calculus. The course includes 5 meetings in the Computer Lab (SH306) on Mondays at 9:00 am (C01), 10:00 am (C02), 11:00 am (C03), 12:00 noon (C04), and 3:00 pm (C05):

	Lab 1: Area Approximation - January 16 Lab 2: The Definite Integral - January 23 Lab 3: Solids of Revolution - January 30 Lab 4: Center of Mass - February 6 Lab 5: Basic Integration Techniques - February 13 Lab 6: Exponential Growth and Decay - February 20

Each lab should be completed and turned in during the same lab period it is introduced. Reports on your effort will be evaluated and graded; remember that all 6 labs will be worth 18% of the final grade.

The work in the Lab will be done under the guidance of Jane Bouchard, the Instructor Assistants of this course.

Practice problems will be given for each topic covered. The list of recommended problems can be found in the Homework Assignments section. Homework is not handed in, so each student should take a personal responsibility for doing sufficient study and practice.

To evaluate your work at home, six 15-minute quizzes are offered throughout the course, and the quiz problems are chosen from the homework assignments made in a few prior classes. The quizzes will be held in the beginning of the lecture meeting in accordance with the Schedule of Events below.

Be aware of the helpful fact: answers to all even number problems included in the HW assignments will appear on in News section just prior each quiz. However, this doesn't mean that a reproduction of the answer in the quiz paper will give you any credit for this problem - we are looking for complete solutions whereas the answers are provided just in order you could check your result.

Two intermediate Tests and Final Exam will cover the course's main topics. The Test Preview page will give you clear ideas about the contents of the Tests: corresponding information will be posted there approximately 2 days before the event - see Schedule of Events below.

There will be opportunities to earn bonus points during this course. Each Test and the Final Exam will include bonus problem(s). Also, you may get bonus points for the exceptionally outstanding quizzes at the instructor's discretion.

The tests and the Final are closed-book-and-closed-notes events. Calculators are NOT allowed to use - because they are not need for any of the test/exam problems.

Remember that when solving your tests and working on your homework problems, you have to show all work on paper. Calculator (used at home) may be a tool to check your solution rather than the mean to get it. Evaluations of mathematical expressions, derivatives, and integrals, obtained by using advanced calculators or Maple will not be accepted.

No make up will be given without a legitimate reason. (That could be an illness or other unavoidable emergency which you can document.)

Recommendations of your predecessors (students of A'00, B'01, B'02, and B'03 Terms) provide you with explicit guidelines how to survive in this course.

vadim@wpi.edu

Last modified: Wed, Jan 25, 2006