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Math 152 (Calculus II), Sections 501-503Spring 2011Instructor: Dr. Mariya VorobetsClass hours : MWF 9:10 – 10:00, HELD 107Web page: http://math.tamu.edu/~mvorobet/Math152/S11/Office: Milner 004 (phone: 845-0849, e-mail: [email protected])Office hours: TR 11:15 AM–12:45 PM, or by appointmentRecitations:501 R 9:35–10:25 CE 136502 R 11:10–12:00 CE 136503 R 3:55–4:45 CE 006Labs:501 T 9:35–10:25 BLOC 126502 T 11:10–12:00 BLOC 126503 T 3:55–4:45 BLOC 123Teaching assistant. Yue Zhang ; e-mail: [email protected] Outcomes. This course is to provide students with quantitative and problem-solving skills of integral calculus, power series, and 3-D vectors. At the conclusion of this course,students should be able to:• Apply techniques of integration to a variety of applications, including engineering appli-cations• Understand and explain convergence of sequences and infinite series• Apply power series to a variety of applications, including engineering applications• Understand and apply vector operations in 3-dimensions, including dot and cross product• Use Computer Algebra Systems such as Matlab to solve non-routine problemsPrerequisite. MATH 151 or equivalent.Texts.• J. Stewart, CALCULUS. Early Vectors, Aggie Edition, Thompson Publishing, Brooks/Cole,ISBN 0534493483• A. Gilat, MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications, 3rd Edition, Wiley Publishing,ISBN 0470108770Course Web Page. The course web page will be my main source of communication to youaside from class and office hours. Check the course page regularly for announcements, examinformation and the course schedule.The Mathematics Department has a web-page for Math 152http://www.math.tamu.edu/courses/math152/Here you can find a description of the course, approximate weekly schedule, past exams,help session schedules and other information.Email Policy. Check your official TAMU email account EVERY day. You are responsiblefor any information I send via email. Because of the privacy rights, I cannot discuss grades viaemail or over the phone. Please include your name and the section number in the subject line.Online homework. Homework will be assigned online on the Webassign system for eachsection and will be due regularly. You will be required to purchase an access code for theseassignments. Instructions are available at http://www.math.tamu.edu/ehmwk/You may use scratch paper, calculators etc. on the online homework. The deadlines areprogrammed into the computer system, so submitting your homework well before the deadlineis recommended. If you submit your homework late, the computer will automatically give youa zero for the assignment and not record your answers. You are responsible for remembering todo the homework. The lowest five homework grades will be dropped at the end of the semester.Suggested homeworks. Selected problems from your textbook will be assigned but NOTgraded. You are strongly recommended to do all of them which will provide a valuable practicefor both on-line HWs and exams. For list of suggested HWs see:http://www.math.tamu.edu/courses/math152/currenthw.htmlComputer labs. Computer labs will be assigned in section each week with breaks for theexams. These assignments will be done in a group. Groups will be assigned in section duringthe first week of classes.Quizzes. Quizzes will be given regularly, almost every week (except exam weeks) duringthe recitation meeting on Thusdays. All of them are mandatory, although, a couple of worstgrades will be dropped at the end of the semester. That is why, NO MAKE UP QUIZZES.Each student has to buy pack of 15 ScanTron Forms 815E, and turn in to the TA beforethe 1st quiz.Grading. Your grade will be determined by three exams, a cumulative final exam, and alaboratory grades. The weights of each of these are as follows.Exam I Exam II Exam III Final Exam Homework Quizzes Lab reports Total15% 15% 20% 25% 5% 10% 10% 100%Feb. 17 March 24 Apr. 26 May 9 weekly weekly tbaYou must bring either your student ID or your driver’s license to each of the above exams.There will be no extra credit under any circumstances. Exams I, II and III are common exams(same exam is given for all sections of Math 152) and are administered in the evenings from7:30-9:30 PM. An examination room would be announced in class and posted on the coursewebsite as soon as it is assigned.A two-hour comprehensive FINAL examination will be given on Monday, May 9, at 8:00 -10:00 in the classroom.I may curve any grade and will then compute the course grade by the following rule: A forat least 90% points, B for at least 80% points, C for at least 70% points, D for at least 60%points and F for less than 60% points.Help Sessions and Week-in-Review. The Mathematics Department offers help sessionsfor Math 152 students on Sunday–Thursday, 8-10 PM in BLOC 117. Seehttp://www.math.tamu.edu/courses/helpsessions.html for more information.Also there will be a week-in-review conducted by Amy Austin each Monday, 5:45-7:45 PMin HELD 100. Problems will be posted before each session. Seehttp://www.math.tamu.edu/˜amy.austin/livewirmath152.html for week-in-review informa-tion.Make-up Policy. No make-ups will be given without written evidence of an official Uni-versity excused absence (see University Student Rules). In addition, you must notify me NOLATER than the end of the second working day after the missed assignment:... the student must notify his or her instructor in writing (acknowledged e-mailmessage is acceptable) prior to the date of absence if such notification is feasible.In cases where advance notification is not feasible (e.g. accident or emergency)the student must provide notification by the end of the second working day afterthe absence. This notification should include an explanation of why notice couldnot be sent prior to the class. (Section 7.3 of the University Student Rules)***If no such notice is given, the rights to a make-up are forfeited. Specifically,in the case of injury or illness, students are required to obtain a confirmation note from ahealth care professional affirming date and time of a medical office visit regarding the injuryor illness. I will NOT accept the “Explanatory Statement for Absence from Class” form assufficient written documentation of an excused absence.Late Work Policy. Late work (for which you do not have a University approved excusedabsence) will NOT be accepted. This includes all written and online assignments.Scholastic Dishonesty. Copying work


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