SYLLABUS
 
 

    Time and Place.   MWF 10:00-11:00am  in McDonnell 162.

    Classes begin seven minutes after the hour and end on the hour. Late arrivals and early departures are very disruptive; please avoid them. You are responsible for material covered in class and announcements made there.

    Instructor .  Professor  Edward Wilson
                        Cupples I, Room 18 (located in the basement)
                        Office Tel: 935-6729

                        Send email to Prof. Wilson at <enwilson@math.wustl.edu>.

    Professor Wilson's Office Hours.   MW 11:00am-12:30pm and by appointment.

    TA Office Hours. Mr. Larry Lin (E-mail: <yll@math.wustl.edu>)will be the teaching assistant for this course and he will lead all three of the discussion sections.  He will have regular office hours at a time to be announced later.  However, all of Mr. Lin's office hours will be held in Lopata Hall 102, a room set aside for the use of all the calculus courses. Note that this is the Lopata Hall in the School of Engineering (located close to the Math Building) and NOT the Lopata on the South Forty.  This room will be staffed Monday through Friday, roughly 5 or 6 hours per day.  A precise staffing schedule will be announced later and posted outside the room.  You're welcome to drop by Lopata 102 at any time when it's staffed and ask for assistance from any TA who is not tied up with students from another course.  However, it is suggested that you try to drop by during Mr. Lin's office hours since he will be more familiar with the type of problems dealt with in this course.
 

     Text.  Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences , Eighth Edition; Barnett, Ziegler and Byleen; chapters 7-12.

     Communication.   The Daily Schedule gives the daily reading assignments and the recommended practice problems.  You should also check out the remaining links below, which are part of  this syllabus. The math department home page may be found at www.math.wustl.edu.  There are a number of useful links there, including a link to this syllabus online.

     Homework.   There will be daily recommended practice problems available on the Daily Schedule (see the link below).  It is crucial that you work through these problems even though they will not be collected for grading. The solutions to these can be found in the back of your textbook and, in more detail, in the Students Solution Manual.
    There will also be weekly graded homework sets on Webwork, an internet based mathematics homework system (see the link below for information on using Webwork).  These homeworks will be assigned via Webwork each Friday, to be due the following Sunday. There will be no make-up homeworks;  if you miss a homework, a grade of 0 is assigned. However, your lowest score will be dropped when computing your semester homework score.

            Calculators. You can and should use a calculator for the numerical part of homework problems.  This can be any type of calculator.  However, in doing integrals of simple functions, you'll do yourself a big disservice if you always do definite integrals by calculator and never bother to learn the methods for finding anti-derivatives by hand since, on quizzes and exams, you'll occasionally be asked to compute anti-derivatives.
    Only non-CAS calculators are allowed on quizzes and exams. A CAS calculator is one with a built-in computer algebra system; the current policy of the Mathematics Department is not to allow CAS calculators on any calculus course exams since they give an unfair advantage to those who know how to use them.  Examples of CAS calculators include the TI-89, TI-92, HP-40, and HP-41 If you don't already have a non-CAS calculator and want to buy one, the recommended choice is the TI-83 Plus.  Prof. Wilson and Mr. Lin will be prepared to give some tips on use of the TI-83; with any other type of calculator, you're on your own.

     Discussion Sections.   You should be enrolled in one of the three discussion sections for this course: Section A Th 9-10 a.m.  in Cupples I, Room 218
                 Section B Th 11-12 a.m. in Duncker, Room 3
                 Section C Th 1-2 p.m.   in Cupples I, Room 215
As noted above, Mr. Lin will be the discussion leader for each of these sections.  You should confer with him about the feasibility of either switching from one section to another if you're currently sceduled for a section at an inconvenient time or simply attending a different section during a week (or weeks) when you have a conflict.

    Quizzes.  A quiz will be given at each discussion section (except during exam weeks), for a total of ten quizzes. The quizzes in a given week will cover the material listed in the Daily Schedule for the previous week. There will be no make-up quizzes;  if you miss a quiz, a grade of 0 is assigned. However, your three lowest scores will be dropped when computing your semester quiz score.  No notes may be used on the quiz.  Sometimes non-CAS calculators will be allowed on quizzes, sometimes not. Sometime after 2 p.m. on Thursdays, quiz solutions will be posted (see the quiz link below).

     Exams .   Three in-semester evening exams will be given.  These will be held from 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. on the following  dates:
        Tuesday, February 8
        Monday,  March  14
        Tuesday, April 12

    The final exam will be given on Thursday,May 5 from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

    Roughly 75% of the problems on the in-semester exams will be multiple choice (machine graded) with the remaining 25% essay-style problems to be hand graded by Prof. Wilson.

    The location(s) for each evening exam and for the final exam will be announced on-line the day of the exam. You should bring your WU photo ID, pencils/pens, and a non-CAS
graphing calculator.

    If it is to your advantage, your lowest score among Exams 1-3 will be dropped and replaced by your score on the final exam.  Thus, if your scores on Exams 1-3 are 78,63, and 84 and your score on the final exam is 80, the numbers 78,80,84, and 80 will be used as exam scores in the computation of your final grade average.

    Legitimate excuses for missing an exam (such as verified illlness or family emergency) must be approved by Professor Jack Shapiro (Cupples 1, Room 107B, Tel: 935-6787, E-mail: jshapiro@math.wustl.edu).   In unapproved cases, a grade of 0 will be assigned for a missed exam. Students who miss an in-semester exam with a legitimate excuse will not take a make-up exam; instead the statistical technique of multilinear regression will be used to estimate the missing score. (The details are complicated but the method takes into account  both how the student did on the exams he/she took and the difficulty of the various exams; so he/she is not penalized if the exam he/she missed was an easy one.)  Students who miss the final exam with a legitimate excuse will take a make-up exam at the beginning of the next semester.
 

    Academic Integrity: As with all Washington University courses, cheating on exams or quizzes will be taken very seriously with evidence supporting a cheating allegation forwarded to the Arts and Sciences Integrity Committee for adjudication.  When the Committee concludes that a student cheated on an exam, it normally directs the instructor to assign the student a failing grade for the course.
   Cheating on Webwork homework consists of either blindly typing in answers to problems worked out by someone else or giving someone else your Webwork password so that they can both work out your assigned problems and enter the answers online. To be honest, this kind of cheating is hard to detect; if it is detected, all those involved will be given scores of 0 on the pertinent assignment(s).  But, even if undetected, this kind of cheating is very much to a student's disadvantage since exam problems will frequently be similar to problems occurring in either the daily lesson schedule or in Webwork assignements.  The point of homework is to learn how to do such problems and letting someone else do the work for you is a virtually sure-fire way to insure a low exam score.  Furthermore, be advised that it's not anticipated that students will work in isolation on homework problems.  To the contrary, discussing with others (the instructor, Mr. Lin, other TAs or Cornerstone consultants, other students,...)a general method for solving problems is often a way to avoid frustration and gain useful insight. The key thing is to follow-up on a general discussion of this kind by working out particular problems on your own.

    Grading System .   Your final grade average will be based on the following.
 
 

                          Exam 1            18%

                          Exam 2            18%

                          Exam 3            18%

                          Final Exam        21%

                          Homework          10%

                          Quizzes           15%

      Note that homework and quizzes combine for 25% of the final average.  For most students, homework and quizzes will serve to significantly raise grade averages.  But, the other way around, those who elect to skip a substantial number of homework assignments and quizzes will have to struggle to earn anything higher than a C for the course.

      A precise scale converting final averages to letter grades will be determined at the end of the course. It will be no more severe than the scale listed in the following table.  In each of the indicated ranges, plus and minus letter grades will be awarded at the top (respectively, bottom) of the range.  For example, a final average of 79% is assured of earning a grade no lower than C+ and, if the entire scale is revised downward by a point or two at the end of the semester, might earn a B-.
 
 

                          90%-100%            A's

                          80-89.99%           B's

                          70-79.99%           C's

                          55-69.99%           D's

                          below 55%           F
 
 
 
 

            Students taking the course with the "Credit/No Credit" ("Pass/Fail") grading option must earn a grade of "D" or better to receive a "pass".

            Any students taking the course on an "audit" basis should talk with the instructor to determine what criteria will be used to award a grade of
"successful audit."
 

Links.
Using WebWork (brief) (long)
 WebWork login
 Daily Lesson Schedule
Using the TI-83 for Computations in Calculus
Resources for Help with Math 128