MAT 127: Calculus C, Fall 2009Midterm II InformationWednesday, 11/04, 8:30-10:00pmL01,L02: Earth&Space (ESS) Bldg 001 L03,L04: Old Chemistry Bldg 116General Information(1) It is essential that you show up to the location for the section you are registered in. Alllocations have limited seating, the proctors will have a limited number of exams at each location,and if your exam gets mixed in with a different section, your exam grade may not be recorded.You must bring your Stony Brook ID card to the exam.(2) Please show up no later than 8:25pm. The exam will begin at 8:30pm and you will not receiveextra time if you show up after 8:25pm.(3) Please take every other seat starting with the front row. Once a row fills up, please take aseat directly behind another person (not diagonally from another person). You can put your bagand/or jacket on one of the seats next to you in the same row.(4) Blank paper will be provided, in addition to an exam booklet (4 sheets stapled together). Theexam booklet should have sufficient space for solutions, but you can staple additional pages to it asneeded. If you do so, please write your name and ID number on each additional sheet and indicatein the exam booklet where to find your solution. Any scrap paper that you not want to be gradedshould not be handed in (except separately from the exams, for recycling).(5) No notes, books, calculators, or cell phones may be used during the exam. Please bring pen-cils/pens and an eraser. The only items that may be on your desk between 8:25pm and 10:00pmare pencils/pens, an eraser, your exam booklet, and the scrap paper provided by the proctors.(6) When you receive the exam, please do not open it until the proctors say it is time to start.However, please do fill in your name and Stony Brook ID number and circle your section numberon the front cover of the exam. The exact front cover of the exam is at the end of this handout.(7) All problems on the exam should be stated unambiguously. If you feel there is an issue with astatement of a particular problem, please let a proctor know; however, the proctor will not confirmwhether your interpretation of the problem is correct.(8) Out of fairness to others, please do not open your exam booklet ahead of time and stop workingwhen the time is over. Your exam score will be reduced by 5 points per minute of either violation.(9) When you are finished with the exam or when the time is called (whichever comes first), pleasetake it to the front along with your Stony Brook ID card. Put the exam in the pile for your sectionand sign the photo roster under your picture immediately after.(10) You can leave before the time is over, but please do so as quietly as possible and close thedoor very gently.Before Midterm IINote that PS8 is due two days earlier than usual (except in L01). This will make it possible topost solutions to PS8 before noon on Wednesday, 11/04.The midterm will cover Sections 7.6 and 8.1-8.3 from the textbook. You should re-read thesesections thoroughly, review Course Summary II, and study the solutions to PS6-8 (even if you didall/most problems correctly). Make sure you can do all problem set exercises from the above foursections and some other related problems from the textbook.The second midterms from Fall 05 and Spring 06 are available on the course website, along withsolutions. Please try doing these midterms in 90 minutes (each) before looking at the solutions.The second midterm in this class will be similar in many aspects to these midterms, though therewill be some differences. In particular, the Spring 06 midterm contains a plain logistic equationproblem, which will not appear on your exam (see more details below); you should still be able todo this midterm though.The grades in MAT 127 have had a history of dropping significantly from Midterm I to Midterm II.Section 7.6 is a hard topic being heavily graphics and graphics of rather difficult kind. Sections8.1-8.3 often lead to confusion between sequences and series, the corresponding notions of conver-gence, and the corresponding convergence/divergence tests. This is rather avoidable while workingon exercises from these sections, as sequences and series are kept separate there. It is thus essentialto do exercises from the Review portion of Chapter 8 (Concept Check, True-False Quiz, and ReviewExercises) as well as the old midterms under test conditions. Try to start studying for the exam asearly as possible so that you can get some rest before the exam and not be exhausted while takingit (this appears to have had negative effect on quite a number of Midterm I scores).If you received an F or D/C- on the first midterm (or a low C and your homework scores are low),you should do the Fall 05 second midterm under test conditions by Sunday, November 1. If you dopoorly on it (and be honest with yourself in comparing your work with the solutions), you shouldprobably withdraw from the class while you can. The last day to do so is Monday, November 2; youwill receive a W on your transcript if you withdraw at this point, but presumably this is preferableto an F.If you have any questions, please come to office hours (lots of them on Wednesdays!), MLC, and/ora Residential Tutoring Center. If you do not do well on the second midterm (which covers only4 sections), it is likely to be very hard to compensate for this on the final (which will be cumulative).Note that any possible issues concerning your grades on Midterm I and PS1-5 must be resolvedbefore Midterm II. Midterm I and PS1-5 grades will not be changed after November 4 even if yourscore was simply tallied incorrectly.After Midterm IIDetailed solutions to the midterm will be available on the course website on Thursday morning;please print these out before the following lecture. If your total exam score was incorrectly tallied,please let your instructor know.Before raising questions about how your exam was graded, you must read the solutions to theexam. Each problem is intended to be graded according to a fixed grading scheme, which will beoutlined in the solutions. Errors (deviations from the scheme) can occur in grading, and you arewelcome to discuss your score on each specific problem on the exam with the primary grader forthe problem (bring along your exam and solutions). He/she will take this opportunity to checkthat the entire problem on your exam (and not just the part you are concerned about) was gradedaccording to the grading scheme. This may change your overall