Math 151 (Calculus I), Sections 522-524Fall 2011Instructor: Dr. Mariya VorobetsClass hours : MWF 12:40 – 1:30, HELD 113Web page: http://math.tamu.edu/~mvorobet/Math151/F11/Office: Milner 005, e-mail: [email protected] hours: MW 9:30 –11:00, or by appointmentRecitations:522 R 11:10–12:00 BLOC 113523 R 12:45–1:35 CE 136524 R 5:30–6:20 BLOC 160Labs:501 T 11:10–12:00 BLOC 124502 T 12:45–1:35 BLOC 126503 T 5:30–6:20 BLOC 122Teaching assistant. Nicholas Hein; e-mail: [email protected] Description. Credit 4. This course will cover vectors in two dimensions, differ-entiation and integration of functions of one variable, and applications such as work, veloc-ity/acceleration, optimization (max/min), and curve sketching. The course meets twice perweek in lecture and twice per week in recitation. One of your recitation meetings is designedto discuss questions over homework or lecture. The other recitation meets in the computerlaboratory where the computer package MatLab will be introduced. The goal of the laboratoryportion of the course is to show how problems that are too difficult to solve hand, can be solvedwith the help of the computer. The prerequisite for this course is either Math 150 (precalculus)or a good high school mathematics background that includes algebra II, analytic geometry andtrigonometry.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 151http://www.math.tamu.edu/courses/math151/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 responsible forany 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 each sec-tion and will be due regularly. You may use scratch paper, calculators etc. on the online home-work. The deadlines are programmed into the computer system, so submitting your homeworkwell before the deadline is recommended. If you submit your homework late, the computer willautomatically give you a zero for the assignment and not record your answers. You are respon-sible for remembering to do the homework. The lowest five homework grades will be droppedat the end of the semester. For more information see http://www.math.tamu.edu/ehmwk/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/math151/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) during therecitation meeting on Thusdays. All of them are mandatory, although, a couple of worst gradeswill 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%Sept. 27 Oct. 27 Nov. 29 Dec. 12 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 151) 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, December 12, at3:30 - 5:30 PM 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 sessions forMath 151 students. Seehttp://www.math.tamu.edu/courses/helpsessions.html for more information.Also there will be a week-in-review conducted by Amy Austin. Problems will be postedbefore each session. Seehttp://www.math.tamu.edu/~austin/livewirmath151.html for week-in-review informa-tion.Make-up Policy. No make-ups will be given without written evidence of an official Universityexcused absence (see University Student Rules). In addition, you must notify me NO LATERthan 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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