Math 251, Fall 2001, Sections 13--15

QUIZZES/EXAMS	TEXT AND SYLLABUS	MAPLE LABS
TEXTBOOK HOMEWORK	COURSE PROCEDURES	GETTING HELP

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Instructor: Richard Lyons .. Office hours: Th4 or by appointment, in Hill Center 236 .. send email
Teaching Assistant: Aobing Li .. Office hours: T3, T4 or by appointment, in Hill Center 603 .. send email

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Final exam and course grades are ready. You may look at your exam in Prof. Lyons' office.
CORRECTIONS TO ANSWERS TO FINAL REVIEW PROBLEMS: The answer to #4 is 9pi, not 16pi. The answer to #6 is -30, not 30.
The final exam will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 19, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., in SEC 209. It will cover the entire syllabus (even though the review problems below are confined to the material since the last exam). This is not a common 251 exam; our three sections will have our own exam.
There will be a review session in Hill 124 on Monday, December 17, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Office Hours this week will be Thursday (Dec. 13) but 5th period instead of the normal 4th period.

REVIEW MATERIALS

For Exam #1: Review problems and formula list Short answers to review problems
For Exam #2: Review problems with short answers, and formula list longer answers to #12 and #13
For the remaining course material: Review problems with short answers
Formula list for the final exam
NOTE: THE FINAL EXAM WILL COVER THE ENTIRE SYLLABUS.

LINKS
The general Math 251 Course Webpage contains some general course information, links to other sections of this course, and links to relevant web sites. Note however that there is an updated version of the introduction to Maple for Math 251).

TEXT
James Stewart, Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 4th Edition, Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. We shall study chapters 12--16. In addition, several computer assignments will be made, using the computational package MAPLE.

APPROXIMATE SYLLABUS

Lecture	Date	Sections from Text	Lecture>	Date	Sections from Text
1	9/4	12.1, 12.2	15	10/23	15.4, 15.9(for double integrals)
2	9/6	12.3, 12.4	16	10/25	15.7
3	9/11	12.5	17	10/30	12.7, 15.8
4	9/13	13.1, 13.2	18	11/1	16.1, 16.2
5	9/18	13.3, 13.4	19	11/6	16.2
6	9/20	14.1, 14.2	20	11/8	16.3
7	9/25	14.3, 14.4	21	11/13	16.4
8	9/27	14.5	22	11/15	Exam #2 (THIS HAS BEEN CHANGED TO NOV. 20)
9	10/2	14.6	23	11/20	16.5
10	10/4	14.7	24	11/27	15.6, 16.6
11	10/9	14.8	25	11/29	16.7
12	10/11	Exam #1 (date is approximate)	26	12/4	16.8
13	10/16	15.1, 15.2	27	12/6	16.9
14	10/18	15.3	28	12/11	Catch up and review

QUIZZES/EXAMS 9/20 9/27 10/4 Exam #1 10/17 10/23 10/24 10/31 11/6 11/7 11/14 Exam #2 11/29 12/5

MAPLE ASSIGNMENTS

Lab	#0	#1	#2	#3
Seed file	#0	#1	#2	#3
Due	Sept. 20	Oct. 16	Nov. 13 (new date!)	Dec. 6

You can work in any campus computer lab with X-terminals (or "xterms"). Here's a list of New Brunswick computer labs. Here are instructions for the use of MAPLE in 251.

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TEXTBOOK HOMEWORK
Unless otherwise announced in class, hand in the even-numbered problems on Wednesdays. Section numbers will be announced in class.

12.1	3,7,9,11,12,17,23,31,35,36,37
12.2	4,11,19,20,25,29,31,41
12.3	1,5,7,9,17,19,25,26,31,41,42,45,57
12.4	3,8,9,15,31,39,45
12.5	2,7,11,17,21,25,29,31,34,37,43,44,49,55,56
13.1	1,7,8,9,10,11,12,17,21
13.2	5,6,11,14,17,23,29,31,34,39,47
13.3	3,4,7,11,14,17,21,25,33,36,45a
13.4	13,21,22,23,33,35
14.1	1,8,9,27,28,30,41,42,43,51,52
14.2	5,7,12,37
14.3	3,7,13,15,21,24,39,42,45,57,66,75,79

14.4	5,6,11,14,19,23,33
14.5	3,5,7,8,15,21,29,37,41,42,43
14.6	1,3,4,9,10,13,21,22,28,31,39
14.7	3,7,10,13,27,30,39
14.8	3,5,8,9,12,19,39
15.1	9,10,11,12
15.2	1,2,3,6,7,19,20,24,29
15.3	1,2,5,7,13,14,17,21,24,33,40
15.4	5,9,21,23,24,25,27,29,33
15.6	1,3,6,7
15.7	3,9,10,13,16,19,23,29,33,36

15.8	1,3,7,8,12a,17,18,21,29,33
15.9	1,2,7,12,13,19
12.7	13,15,16,19,20,21,31,32,35,37,39,43
16.1	3,7,11,12,13,14,25,26
16.2	1,4,7,9,19,20,38,39
16.3	3,4,9,10,17,19,20,23
16.4	1,4,11,12,17,19,21
16.5	3,4,5,12ghijkl,15,20,23,28
16.6	1,3,19,21,29,41,44a
16.7	5,7,11,14,19,23,40
16.8	3,5,7,9,13
16.9	3,6,7,11

COURSE PROCEDURES
Attendance is required at all lectures and recitations. The information in this Web page is unofficial (except for Announcements, above). Official assignments and other information about the course, such as the dates of exams, will be given in class. There will be two midterm exams (see syllabus for approximate times) and a final exam. Quizzes will be given in lecture or recitation. Your course grade will be computed with the following weights:

First midterm	20%
Second midterm	20%
Final exam	40%
Maple labs	8%
Quizzes	6%
Other homework	6%

Late assignments will not be accepted. Make-up exams will be given only at the discretion of the instructor, and will in no event be given except in cases where there is a true emergency and every effort has been made to notify the instructor in advance.

IF (WHEN) YOU NEED HELP Everyone has questions that don't get answered in the classroom. (If you don't ever have any, then it's a good rule of thumb that you're not thinking hard enough about your course.) When this happens, there are several places to turn for help. First of all, your professor and teaching assistant have office hours, and you're not getting your money's worth at Rutgers if you need help but haven't visited office hours. Discussing questions with fellow students can be extremely valuable. Remember, of course, that plagiarism is absolutely forbidden; after these discussions, when you write up assignments and put your name on them, you are certifying that you wrote them up in your own words and by yourself. (Do be careful to do your Maple lab reports exactly according to the instructions.) Beyond these resources, you can visit one of the Math and Science Learning Centers on campus (Busch: Allison Road, 445-3123/3898; Douglass: Chemistry Building 3rd Floor, 932-8991), where walk-in tutoring is available at specified hours, or one of the Learning Resource Centers. At these centers your tutor will not necessarily be someone from the mathematics department. Or you can hire a paid tutor; the mathematics department (445-2390) maintains a list of tutors.

If you need help, seek it out promptly and participate actively. If you find that

you're struggling but still telling yourself that you can learn the course without talking to others who know the subject, or
you're afraid to "look stupid" or "show your ignorance" by asking questions, or
you're sure you can catch up in the last couple of weeks of the semester,

then think again. This subject builds from class to class and week to week, and its subtleties take time to sink in. Most people learn a lot through conversation, and that makes it all the more important for you to develop your skill and confidence in talking about mathematics, to your peers and to your teachers. And most important, there's nothing stupid about asking questions. On the contrary, it doesn't make any sense not to ask a question when you need to know the answer.

Math 251, Fall 2001, Sections 13--15

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