Math 132, Spring 2007

 Calculus II

Instructor          John E. McCarthy
Class                  MWF 12.00-1.00 or 2.00-3.00 in Busch 100
Office                 105 Cupples I
Office Hours     M 11-12, Th 2-3, F 3-4 or by appointment.

Reading Week: Unfortunately I will be out of town at a wedding on Monday April 30th and Tuesday May 1st.

On Wednesday May 2nd I will have office hours from 12.30 till 3.00.

Phone                 935-6753

Text                    University Calculus by Hass, Weir, Thomas

                        For additional reading, I recommend “How to ace calculus” by Adams, Hass and Thompson

Exams    There will be four exams in the course:

Exam 1       6.30 p.m.- 8.30 p.m. February 7th  (Covers Sections 6.1-6.6)  Solutions      
Exam 2       6.30 p.m.- 8.30 p.m. March 7th (Covers Sections 6.7-7.7)   Solutions          
Exam 3       6.30 p.m.- 8.30 p.m. April 11th  ( Covers Sections 8.1-8.6)    Solutions       
Exam 4 :    Final Exam        3.30-5.30 p.m. May 3rd   (Covers 6.1- 9.2)    Solutions      

To find your room and seat assignment for an exam, go to the Math Dept home page on exam day, www.math.wustl.edu.

Remember to bring your Washington University student ID with you.

No notes are allowed for exams. You will need a scientific calculator for exams, but graphing calculators and those that can perform symbolic differentiation/integration are not allowed. The following list of trigonometric identities will be provided Trigonometric Identities.

           

Homework

There are weekly homework sets during the semester, to be done on WebWork:

 http://webwork.wustl.edu/webwork2/math132spring2007/    

These are due every Sunday; the first assignment is due January 28th. 

Other homework (which will not be graded) is here: http://www.math.wustl.edu/~mccarthy/teaching/132Spring07HW.html

If you can do these HW problems with the book shut, you are on top of the material.            

Note: Doing a homework problem by looking for a similar example and following that does not give much insight. Instead, try to do the problem without looking anything up. If you can’t, reread the entire section, and then try again to do the homework problems without following worked examples.

Discussion Sections

When you register for the course, you are automatically enrolled in a Discussion Section on Tuesday, with either Sara Gharabheigi or Larry Lin as your Teaching Asssistant. Attendance at the Discussion Section is mandatory. Here you will discus homework problems, and get a second take on topics that were confusing in class.

 

Prerequisites

Calculus I 

Content

Applications of definite integrals. Techniques of integration. Infinite sequences and series. Differential equations. Polar coordinates.

(Chapters 6-9  of University Calculus).

Basis for Grading

Each midterm and the webwork will be 18% of your grade, the final will be 28%. If you do well on the final, this grade can be substituted for one of your midterms.

Final Grades : 

A: 85% –100%                       A-: 83% - 84.9%

B+: 80.5% - 82.9%                 B:  70% - 80.4%                     B-: 66.6% - 69.9%

C+: 62.9% - 66.5%                 C: 58% - 62.8%                      C-: 55% - 57.9%

D: 49% - 54.9%

                                   

Missed Exams:  If you are unable to take one of the midterms for legitimate reasons (such as verified illness or serious family emergency)  you  will be given an excused absence for that exam.              

                                 NO INTERM MAKEUP EXAMS ARE GIVEN.

  
Your grade for the missed midterm exam will be calculated by a statistical procedure which uses your scores on the other taken exams, including the Final.
Not coming because you overslept or forgot the time of the exam is not a legitimate reason  .
 

Homework

Homework is an extremely important part of the course. Make sure you stay current with it, or you will find it extremely difficult to catch up.

Class

I do expect you to come to class every day, and to participate in class discussions. I also expect you to stay abreast of the material we are covering, and may call on you at any time to answer a question.

 

Help is Available!
There are a number of ways to get help with hard problems or for understanding some material a little better.
First my office hours. You should feel free to come in and talk about any material.                                                                                                         Second, your TA has Office Hours in Lopata 102. You may always ask your TA for help.
Next there is the Calculus Help Room   and   Calculus Help  Desk. Details about these can be found on:
www.math.wustl.edu/~blake/undergrads/ta_officehours.html and www.artsci.wustl.edu/~freiwald/help.html.       

Peer-led Team Learning: At PLTL, you work together with other students and a leader to solve problems. This is open to 40 students who sign up by Friday Jan 19th on Telesis.
The PLTL website is www.math.wustl.edu/~lisak/pltl.html.

Calculus Study Group:  Study groups are organized as needed by The Center for Advanced Learning located  in  Cornerstone  (in Gregg Hall on the south 40).  They are conducted by graduate and undergraduate math students. If you want to belong to such a study group you must make a commitment to attend the group regularly  (not just  "come when you feel like it"). For more information you can look on the website cornerstone.wustl.edu  or call them at 935-5970 .

Old Exams:  Old Exams and solutions are posted on the web as a study guide (go to www.math.wustl.edu ).  Copies of some of these exams should also be available to view or copy at the Reserve Desk of Olin Library.