Math 128: Calculus II for the Life, Social, and
Managerial Sciences (Spring 2011)
Instructor: Holly Bernstein
Cupples I, Room
108 D
(314)935-8111
If I am not in my office, e-mail is the faster
way to reach me. If you leave an
e-mail or voice-mail, please allow 24 hours for a response (48 hours on the
weekends).
Office Hours: Mondays
and Fridays 11am-noon, and by appointment
Teaching
Assistant: Ben
Manning
Cupples I, Room 213
TA Office
Hours: Ben will be in the
Calculus Help Room (Lopata, Room 323) on Mondays and
Tuesdays from
Lectures: MWF
Discussion
Sessions: You must be enrolled in
a discussion session. These meet on
Thursdays
at
Textbook: “Calculus and Its
Applications,” 12th edition, by Goldstein, Lay, Schneider, and
Asmar. We will be covering much of chapters
6-12.
Grading: WebWork 10%
There will be 10 Webwork
assignments, starting the week of 1/24 and excluding exam weeks. Your two lowest Webwork
scores will be dropped. Webwork will be available each Monday morning at
Quizzes
10%
Quizzes are given at the start of each discussion
section, starting the week of 1/24 and excluding exam weeks. There are no makeup quizzes, but your
two lowest quiz scores will be dropped.
Midterm
Exams 15% each
Exams will be given on February 8, March 8, and
April 12 from
Cumulative
Final Exam 35%
The final is Thursday, May 5 from
The grading
scale for this course is
90-100%
A range (i.e., A-, A, A+)
80-89%
B range
70-79%
C range
If you are
taking this course Pass/Fail, you must earn a C- or better for a
“Pass.”
Prerequisites: Math 127 or equivalent.
General
Remarks: Attendance is expected
at both lectures and discussion sections.
If you are absent, check to see what you missed. Lectures will cover the fundamental
concepts of each section and work examples of problems that use these
concepts. The textbook is a source
of further explanation and examples.
Any time you
have questions, be sure to ask them.
There is time built into the lectures for this. In addition, the purpose of the
discussion section is to give you ample opportunity to ask questions about both
lectures and homework. If you need
additional help, do not hesitate to visit office hours, or make an appointment
with the instructor or TA. Even
more help can be found by checking the resources at http://www.math.wustl.edu/help.html.
Homework
problems will be suggested from each section of the textbook. While you do not have to turn these in,
you should certainly do them.
These problems are usually either a warm up for the Webwork,
or cover applications not available on Webwork. Webwork will
usually cover material from the current week’s Monday and Wednesday lectures
as well as the preceding Friday. If
you can do the assigned problems in the textbook, you should be able to do
about 80% of the Webwork without much difficulty, but
there will usually be a few problems that are more challenging. Quiz problems will be extremely similar
to the homework problems from the previous Wednesday, Friday, and Monday
lectures.
To reach the
Webwork homework go to http://webwork.wustl.edu/webwork2/math128spring2011/ . If you are new to Webwork,
the first time you log in, use your student ID# as both the user name and
password. You can then change your
user name/password as you wish.
Each time
you enter a solution, Webwork will tell you if it is
right or wrong. If it is wrong you can try working the problem again, any
number of times. You will be graded on what appears on your Webwork
each Friday at
Webwork Notation :
1) log represents the natural logarithm.
2) sqrt(x)
is the square root of x.
2) x*y represents the product, x times y.
3) x^n means x raised to the
power n.