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Description from course listings: Covers essentially the material of Math 132, but automatically includes a special discussion section/computer lab (Tu-Th 9-10) in addition to the MWF lectures. Students should select a lab/discussion section (A or B) when registering. Prerequisite: grade of B or better in one year of high school calculus. No previous computer experience required. Credit 4 units.
Differences between this course and the regular Math 132: The computer component of 1322 is worth an extra credit, but it is a significant amount of work. The software package Matlab, and its symbolic toolbox - which is Maple, are used in other math courses such as Math 217 and 309, as well as in a number of engineering courses. During the semester the Math 1322 exams will be given in class (53 minutes) and will be of the free response type graded by the professor. The Math 132 exams are given in the evening (same days), last two hours and are multiple choice. Weekly homework assignments will be collected and graded in Math 1322, but not in Math 132. The final exam in both courses will be at the same time, will last two hours, but in Math 1322 it will be free response, while in Math 132 it will be multiple choice. Both courses have graduate student Teaching Assistants who run a weekly discussion section in which homework is discussed and a 15 minute quiz is given. Math 1322 has an additional weekly computer lab session conducted by the professor.
Location: Lectures are 9:00-10:00 a.m. MWF. The computer lab is 9:00-10:00 a.m. on Tuesday or Thursday, depending on which lab/discussion section you are in. The discussion section is 9:00-10:00 a.m. on Tuesday or Thursday, depending on which day you have the lab session.
Examination Schedule: Tests, at which attendance is required, will be given in class Monday, September 28, Monday, October 26 and Monday, November 23. No make-ups will be given for these tests. Excused absences from any of these tests must be obtained from Professor Jensen prior to the examination. Medical excuses from the health service may be taken directly to the math office in room 100 Cupples I. Excused missing exam scores will be determined by a linear regression based on your other tests and the final exam. Unexcused absence from an exam will result in a score of zero.
Instructor: Gary R. Jensen. His office is in room 111a, Cupples I. His office phone is 935-6302, e-mail address is gary@math.wustl.edu> and home phone is 862-4569.
Text:Calculus, Concepts and Contexts , by James Stewart, Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. This course covers chapters 5 - 8. See Lesson Schedule for details.
Requirements: Students will learn the material by attending the lectures, reading the text book, doing practice exercises, doing the homework problems, attending the discussion sections and the lab sessions and doing the computer homework assignments. Lectures will be divided between presentation of new material and illustrations of how the material is used in practice. Discussion sessions will be divided between discussion of problems and the taking of a fifteen minute quiz. Homework will be collected for grading at every discussion session. Attendance at the session is required for homework to be accepted. Exceptions can be made for reasonable excuses. Discuss these with Professor Jensen, not the TA. Computer lab will be divided between presentation of new material and practice. Students will be able to start the next week's homework assignment.
Computer usage: The software package Matlab will be used in this course. This is high level numerical computation software widely used by engineers. We will also use its Symbolic Toolbox, which is essentially the symbolic manipulator Maple. The full professional version of Matlab v.5 and its Symbolic Toolbox are available on the approximately 25 PC's in the Computer Classroom and on the approximately 35 PC's in the Artsci Computing Center. The Student Edition of Matlab v.5 can be purchased at the campus store (about $80). It includes the symbolic toolbox and a manual. The system requirements are: Windows 95, 486, Pentium or Pentium Pro processor, 8-bit graphics adapter and display, 8 MB RAM (16 MB highly recommended) and Microsoft Word 6.0 or 7.0 (for the notebooks) and 50 MB disk space. The Student Edition is also available for the Macintosh.
Class attendance: Classes run from 9:07 to 10:00. Late arrivals and early departures are disruptive. For this reason I ask that you arrive and depart on time. If on occasion some appointment requires you to leave early, please let me know this at the beginning of class. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of every class. To be counted as present, you must be present when attendance is taken. Attendance is not a formal part of your grade. I will use it as a measure of commitment in deciding grades in borderline cases.
Homework: There will be a homework assignment due at every discussion session. These homeworks will combine the calculus and computer material. They will be graded, with comments and returned at the next discussion session. The calculus homework must be written on 8.5 x 11 paper, not torn from a spiral notebook. Multiple pages must be stapled together. Unstapled papers will be accepted from a given student only once during the semester. Computer problems are to be prepared either with the Matlab notebook, which is a Microsoft Word document, or as a series of Matlab script m-files with the output pasted in. The first line of this document must be your name and student ID number. These assignments will count towards your grade. See the Grades section below for details.
Collaboration: Students are encouraged to collaborate on all homework and to form study groups. However, each student must write up and hand in his or her own homework assignments. You might have worked a problem with someone else, or someone else showed you how to do the problem, but you must then write up the solution on your own. At the end of each assignment list the names of everyone with whom you worked, or who gave you help, on the assignment.
Computer Lab: Math 1322 has a computer component which adds one extra day, and an extra credit to the course. Tentatively, Laboratory A will have computer lab on Tuesdays, 9:00-10:00 a.m. in the Computer Classroom, and its Discussion Session on Thursdays, same time. Laboratory B will have Discussion Session on Tuesdays, 9:00-10:00 a.m., and its computer lab on Thursdays, same time. Possible changes in this schedule will be discussed and announced in the first class meeting.
The first Computer Lab will be in the week of September 1. Sometime
before your first lab you should take a 3.5 inch floppy disk with you
to the Artsci Computing Center
Find a PC with the Matlab icon on its screen, insert
your diskette into drive a: of the PC, click
on the Matlab icon to start up Matlab. (I'll explain in the first Computer
Lab why you should have your diskette in drive a: when you open Matlab.
On the command line type in
helpdesk and hit the enter key. At the helpdesk
click on Getting Started. Read the chapters Starting
MATLAB and Matrices and Magic Squares. During the
semester you will go through the remaining chapters. Return to helpdesk
and click on Documentation
Roadmap, click on Full Documentation Set, scroll down
to Notebook User's Guide and click on it. Read pages 16-31 of
this Guide. (Note: if clicking on Notebook User's Guide results in a
message from Netscape Navigator saying you need the Adobe Acrobat plugin,
please ask the consultant for help, even if you think you know what to do).
I advise you NOT to print copies of any of the Matlab
documentation. It is far more convenient to learn how to use the online
documentation than to carry around 10 to 20 pounds of paper documentation.
The principal object of the just described exercise is for you to learn how
to use the Matlab documentation and help. If you want to print
something, print this Math 1322 information sheet and the Lesson Schedule.
Discussion Sections: When you register for this course you select lab/discussion section A or B. Your discussion session will be on either Thursday or Tuesday, from 9:00-10:00 a.m., depending on whether you are registered for Lab A or Lab B, respectively. An experienced graduate teaching assistant will lead the section and answer questions. There will be a short quiz at the end of nine of the discussion sessions. Each quiz will have two questions and will be worth a total of 6 points. Quiz problems will be taken from the exercises in the text. For the Tuesday discussion section, the problems will come from the sections of the text covered the preceding M-W-F. For the Thursday discussion section, the problems will come from the sections covered the preceding W-F-M. Quiz grades will contribute to your course grade (see Grades below). There will be no make-up quizzes. Calculators may be used during the quizzes.
Focus on Problem Solving. Four of the discussion sessions will be devoted to working problems from the text's "Focus on Problem Solving" section at the end of each chapter. During the next class period (see Lesson Schedule ) you will then be given one or two of these problems to do and hand in at the end of the class. These problems will be graded and counted as a quiz (see Grades below). Calculators may be used on the Focus Problems.
Calculators. A calculator may be used in this course on all homework, quizzes and exams. The recommended calculator is the TI83, but any comparable calculator is permitted. The TI83 is also used in Math 233 (Calculus 3) and Math 320 (Introduction to Probability and Statistics).
Exams: There will be three examinations and a final exam, following the same schedule as the regular Math 132 exams:
The three in-semester exams will be 53 minutes long, of the free response type. Partial credit can be earned by showing a sufficient amount of work. The final exam will be the same kind of exam, but two hours long. Calculators may be used during the exams.
Grades: Your grade for the course will be based on your three exam scores (15% per exam), your final exam score (20%), your quiz scores (15% using the best 6 quiz scores, but no more than 2 of the last 4 quiz scores can be discarded, and the best 3 Focus Problem scores) and your written homework (20%). If E1, E2, E3 are your three exam scores, F is your final exam score, Q is your total selected quiz and Focus Problem score scaled to 30 and H is your homework score scaled to 30, let
Lesson Schedule We will follow this lesson schedule closely. Any changes to the lesson schedule will be announced in class and subsequently changed on this link. You will find the lectures more valuable if you read the text material and try some problems before coming to class. Click on the Lesson Schedule link above to see it.
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