Math 275

MATH 275
Multivariable and Vector Calculus
Fall Session
2008

Instructor Information

Instructor	Dr. Otis Kenny
Office	MG237A
Phone	426-3348
Hours	8:30-9:30, MTWTh
	10:40-11:30, MTWF
	or by appointment
	drop-ins welcome
email	okenny@boisestate.edu
	do not send me html formatted email

Text

You may use either University Calculus by Hass, Weir and Thomas or University Calculus, Part 2, Multivariable by Hass, Weir and Thomas. The second is the last few chapters of the first.

General Information

Math 275 covers Chapter 10 (Vectors and the Geometry of Space) through Chapter 14 (Integration in Vector Fields).

There will be 3 "hour" exams and a comprehensive final exam. Each hour exam will count 18% of your final grade. The final exam will count 30%. The remaining 16% will be made up of laboratories and quizzes, 10% on quizzes and 6% from maple laboratories. The grading scale is 80%-100% is an A, 70%-79% is a B, 60%-69% is a C, 50%-59% is a D and anything lower than 50% is an F.

N.B. Anything written in red on your papers will be assumed to be written by me!

Homework will be assigned daily, collected, corrected and returned. No grade will be assigned to homework. Each homework assignment will consist of problems over yesterday's material, problems over today's material and problems over tomorrows material, so you get three assignents on each topic. There will be a "homework-quiz" every week which will consist of (basically) one or two problems from the homework. I will count your best 10 quizzes. There will not be any make-up quizzes. In this class we will use the homework format developed at Harvey Mudd College which can be found here . This format is designed to reduce the time I spend correcting homework. If you do not use this style, your homework will be returned uncorrected.

Math 275 is an extension of the ideas developed in Math 170 and Math 175 to the multidimensional case. Because it is, you must be competent in the ideas presented in those courses. Homework is an important part of learning mathematics and you need to schedule time for homework every day. The problems that I assign are the minimum number I believe you need to do to see if you understand the material. You will need to work more problems to develop skill and to get to the state where you "know" the material. "Being able to figure out" and "know" are different levels of understanding. For example, I can "figure out" the identity for sin(mx)cos(nx) but I do not "know" it. This means that finding an antiderivative for sin(mx)cos(nx) takes me longer than it would if I "knew" the identity.

If you have a time conflict with another class, and did not get my signature to override the conflict, the other professor gave you permission to miss (arrive late, leave early) his or her class.

Academic Dishonesty

Unfortunately, there has been an increase of academic dishonesty at Boise State in recent years. Academic dishonesty includes such actions as

copying some one else's work and passing it off as your own.
not citing sources in research projects or essays.
using notes or references on exams where such use is prohibited.
working together when you are to work alone.

The university policy on such activities can be found in sections 18A and 18B of the Student Code of Conduct which can be obtained at http://www.boisestate.edu/osrr/scp/student_code.html Such activities in this class will result in a score of zero for the exam or quiz.

Important Dates

These are some of the important dates for this fall semester. The exam dates are fixed. The chapters covered may be different

Monday, August 25	Classes Begin
Monday, September 1	Labor Day Holiday	University Closed
Friday, September 8	Last day to add, change to audit
Tuesday, September 23	Exam 1	Chapters 10 and 11
Friday, October 3	Last day to drop
Monday, October 20	Exam 2	Chapters 10, 11, 12
Tuesday, November 11	Exam 3	Chapters 10,11,12,13
Wednesday, December 17	Final Exam	1:00-3:00pm

Homework

Week 1 August 25--August 29
Week 2 September 1--September 5
Week 3 September 8--September 12
Week 4 September 15--September 19
Week 5 September 22--September 26
Week 6September 29 -- October 3
Week 7 October 6 -- October 10
Week 8 October 13 -- October 17
Week 9 October 20 -- October 24
Week 10 October 27 -- October 31
Week 11 November 3--November 7
Week 12 November 10--November 14
Week 13 November 17--November 21
Week 14 December 1-- December 5

Old exams

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Exam 4	2007 Summer Postscript format pdf format
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