M175: Calculus II
Section 002
Boise State University, Fall 1999
Instructor:
Stephen Brill
Office:
MG 214-B
Phone:
(208) 426-3122
Fax:
(208) 426-1356
E-mail:
brill@math-cs.idbsu.edu
Class meetings:
10:40 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
in room MG 108.
Textbooks:
Calculus: Early Trancendentals
by Stewart (Chapters 6-10)
Maple V Flight Manual
by Ellis, Johnson, Lodi, and Schwalbe
Laboratory Manual for Calculus, Boise State University
by Otis Kenny
Office hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Other times by appointment.
Computer labs:
There will be no formal Maple computer labs. However, some quiz problems
will be
assigned for which Maple will prove helpful. It is the responsibility of the
students to study the
Laboratory Manual for Calculus to tackle such problems.
Homework:
The purpose of homework is to give students
the opportunity to work with and become familiar with the important concepts
of the course. Homework will be assigned regularly but will not be graded.
Collaborative work on homework exercises is encouraged.
You will have the opportunity to discuss homework exercises in class.
Approximate timeline:
Review of Calculus I: 23 August
Chapter 6: 25 August - 3 September
Chapter 7: 8 September - 27 September
Chapter 8: 29 September - 14 October
Chapter 9: 15 October - 27 October
Chapter 10: 1 November - 8 December
Grading policy:
Your grade will be determined by your performance in four areas:
-
Three tests (40%) -- Tests will occur during regular class meeting
times on 1 October, 29 October, and 3 December. Collaborative work on
tests is not permitted.
-
Quizzes (20%) -- All quizzes are take-home and will be assigned
and collected on a weekly basis (except those weeks when tests occur).
Although collaborative work on quizzes is encouraged, each student must
hand in his/her own quiz paper.
-
Project (15%) --
The project is an opportunity for students to work on a (hopefully) enjoyable
problem related to the material we will be studying throughout the semester.
Students will form groups consisting of at least three people each; each group
will have a unique project.
Each group, with
the permission and/or advice
of the instructor, may design its own project,
or may choose to have a project topic assigned by the instructor. The
presentation of the project may be in oral or written form (or, perhaps, in a
combination of the two). It is the responsibility of the students of each
group to meet with
the instructor
(preferably not too far into the semester)
to determine an appropriate project and format.
All projects must be presented before Friday, 10 December 1999, at 10:40 a.m.
-
Final exam (25%) -- Wednesday, 15 December,
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Collaborative work on the final exam is not permitted.
Your grade will be computed via the following algorithm. Let x be
the number of points accumulated throughout the semester (between 0 and
100):
A: x > 90
B: 80 < x < 90
C: 70 < x < 80
D: 65 < x < 70
F: x < 65
The following two paragraphs are taken verbatim from the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science's
"generic
syllabus" for M 175:
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students should:
- Be adept at finding antiderivatives in the easy cases.
- Be able to use tables to find antiderivatives for more difficult
cases.
- Set up as definite integrals those common application problems
involving volumes of rotation, arc length, surface area, work.
- Have an intuitive understanding of the definitions of limit of a
sequence and sum of an infinite series.
- Be able to find intervals of convergence of power series using
ratio, root, comparison, and integral tests.
- Have an understanding of separable differential equations and
the use of slope fields to plot solutions to simple differential
equations.
- Have an understanding of polar coordinates and the calculus of
functions described in those coordinates.
Assessment of Learning Objectives
Students will be assessed by evaluating their ability to do problems
based on the learning objectives. The problems will occur in several
contexts:
- Periodic problem sets for homework serve both as learning and
assessment tools. Classroom activities may vary depending on students'
performances on homework assignments.
- Problems given on in-class examinations are designed to give
students the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to apply rules
and formulae to the solution of simpler problems.
- Instructor optional take-home examinations designed to evaluate
the students ability to solve more complicated and time consuming
problems. These problems give students the opportunity to demonstrate
their ability to use technology to solve problems that are not
amenable to simple analytic techniques.
This page was most recently updated on 18 August 1999.
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