In this page: course description; schedule and location; instructor (contacting me, office hours); prerequisites; Web page; textbook; homework; examinations; calculator use; grading.
Calculus III, L24/233/31, will be on differential and integral calculus of functions of two or three variables.
The course will meet Mondays through Thursdays, June 11 through August 2 except July 4, from 11:00 am to 12:45 pm in Cupples I Hall, room 115.
A PDF map of the campus will show you where Cupples I Hall is. Room 115 is between the basement and the first floor on the west end of the building.
The course meets in summer session III. You may wish to bear in mind the schedule of deadlines for withdrawing from courses and similar actions.
A detailed schedule of lectures, homework assignments, and examination dates is available online.
The instructor is me, Michael Hamm. I'm not a
professor and have no doctoral degree, so it's incorrect to call me
professor
or Dr. Hamm
. You can
call me Michael
or Mr. Hamm
, whichever you're more
comfortable with.
There are a few ways to get in touch with me.
You can see me in my office (see next subsection) or, usually,
immediately before and/or after class in the classroom. You can e-mail me at
msh210@math.wustl.edu. If you have a
question related to WeBWorK or a specific WeBWorK problem you're working,
you can e-mail me from within the WeBWorK system using the link provided
there. (More on WeBWorK is below.) Or you can send me
nearly anonymous e-mail by using the following
form online. [Form removed now that the course is
over.] (The reason I say it's nearly anonymous
is
that I won't see who sent it, but if I want to I can check the Web server
log to see what IP address was used to send it; I might then be able,
somehow, to identify the sender. I don't do such things,
though.)
My office is room 10 in the basement of Cupples I Hall, the same building the class will meet in. I will have office hours Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:45 am to 10:45 am. I will also be available by appointment at other mutually agreed-upon times.
The official prerequisite for this course is having passed Math 132 (Calculus II) or received a score of 4 or 5 on Advanced Placement calculus BC, or having permission of the department to take this course.
This page
http://www.math.wustl.edu/~msh210/calc3 is the official Web
page for the course; the frequently-updated schedule page is at http://www.math.wustl.edu/~msh210/calc3/schedule.html.
Any important announcement will be posted on the latter page and announced
in class.
The textbook for this course is University Calculus, by
Hass, Weir, and Thomas, published in 2007 by Addison Wesley; its ISBN-10
is 0321350146 and its ISBN-13 is 9780321350145. The campus
bookstore should have copies of it. We will cover most of chapters 10
through 14 of the book. I will never know whether you have a copy of the
book, since your mandatory homework assignments will not be from it (see
next section); thus, although I highly recommend you obtain a copy of the
book (see the section, below, on examinations), doing so is not
required.
We will be using WeBWorK for mandatory homework. Additional, optional exercises, which will not be graded, will be assigned also, usually from the book.
See the detailed course schedule for due dates; you can see due dates and times from within the WeBWorK system also. Do not put off submitting your work until close to the deadline, as your clock and WeBWorK's internal clock may not be synchronized with one another.
Especially if you have never used WeBWorK before, you should read Introduction to WeBWorK for Students and How to Enter Answers in WeBWorK. The other documents listed under "Documentation for Students" on Blake Thornton's WeBWorK Documentation Page can also be of help.
If you do not have access to the Internet otherwise, you can use computers in the Arts and Sciences Computing Center or the campus libraries.
Examinations will be taken in class, on paper. See the detailed course schedule for dates. The WeBWorK assignments and the recommended additional homework problems will be good practice for the examinations. (Note that the recommended problems sometimes differ in style or scope from the WeBWorK problems, but that both sets of problems are good practice for the exams.)
On examinations, including the final exam, no graphing calculators are allowed. Scientific calculators will be allowed, but no calculator will be necessary.
You can use any calculator you think will help you to do homework.
Note, though, that sometimes Webwork demands exact answers, as
ln 2, and entering a numerical near-equivalent, e.g.,
0.693147, will not suffice.
Your grade will be based on your WeBWorK scores (15% of your grade) and your
examination scores (20% of your grade each for the first three and 25% for the
final examination, for a total of 85% of your grade; but if your final examination
score is not your lowest examination score, then it will also supplant your lowest
examination score. Thus, for example, if your examination scores are 87, 72, 81,
and 82 out of 100, with the 82 on the final examination, then I will average your
scores as if they were 87, 82, 81, and 82 out of 100, for a weighted average of
(87+82+81)*20%+82*25%=70.5 out of 85. Note that this supplanting can
only work in your benefit).
I reserve the right to add or subtract points from the final grade for in-class behavior, participation, and effort (as perceived by myself). Do not count on receiving these extra points, as they will be added (and subtracted) sparingly.
A letter grade will then be assigned based on the following conversion table:
| If your average is in the interval | then your grade is |
|---|---|
| [93,100] | A |
| [89,93) | A- |
| [86,89) | B+ |
| [83,86) | B |
| [79,83) | B- |
| [76,79) | C+ |
| [73,76) | C |
| [69,73) | C- |
| [66,69) | D+ |
| [59,66) | D |
| [0,59) | F |