Prerequisite: Honors Calculus II or permission

Text: James Stewart's Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 5^th edition, Brooks/Cole, 1999, ISBN 0-534-39321-7.

Web Page: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/courses/291/291-s06.
(The main course webpage for Math 251 (regular Multivariable Calculus) has extra information about Maple.)

Meeting times: The lecture will be held every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday (except for holidays) from 5:00pm until 6:20pm in the Science and Engineering Resource Center (SEC) on Busch Campus.

• On Mondays and Wednesdays, we will meet in SEC room 212.
• On Thursdays, we will meet in SEC room 210.

Final Exam: The final exam will be held on Friday, May 5^th, 2006 from 4:00pm until 7:00pm. I will annouce the location of the final exam at a later time.

Lecturer:

Name:	Dr. William (Bill) Cook
Office:	Hill Center 334 (on the Busch Campus)
Office hours:	Thursdays from 2:00pm until class Other times by appointment
Phone:	(732) 445-1316
Email:	wjcook@math.rutgers.edu
Webpage:	http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~wjcook

Peer Mentor:

Name:	Jessica Chen
Email:	jchen@eden.rutgers.edu

Calulators are not allowed on any quizzes or exams. You will be provided a formula sheet for the two midterm exams and the final exam. I will post copies of the formula sheets before each exam, so you will know what is on them. You may use any kind of technology at your disposal to work on homework (calculators etc.) but I strongly recommend that you use Maple. Making yourself more familiar with Maple is (as Martha would say) "a good thing".

Course topics: The course will cover the bulk of the material in Chapters 12-16 of the text. The planned content of each lecture is described on the tentative course schedule.

The term grade will be based on the results of the examinations, on the scores on quizzes, on the scores on workshop/homework problems, and on class participation (such as class notes). Here is more information about the individual components of the grade:

Exams: There will be two hour exams and a cumulative final. The 80 minute exams will count 100 points each and the final will count 200 points. Exams will be closed book and student-prepared formula sheets will not be permitted. An official formula sheet will be provided with each exam. The dates of the 80 minute exams listed in the lecture schedule are tentative. The actual dates will be announced in class. All exams are written by me.

Homework/Quizzes: Students are expected to keep up with the homework problems which are assigned for each lecture. This homework will not be collected. However, students are encouraged to ask questions at the beginning of class about problems with which they have had difficulty. We may have a short quiz every few weeks to help prepare for exams.

Periodically we will take part a of a class period to work on more difficult "workshop" problems. The class will be split up into small groups and will work on the problems together. I will ask for some problems to be written up carefully and turned in. All solutions to workshop problems should be typed up using Maple 10 -- use Maple to help you do difficult calculations and to generate "pretty" text and graphs.

Finally, pairs of students will type up "class notes". There are approximately 14 weeks of class. So each group will have to type up approximately two weeks worth of notes. This will be done using Maple. You should include all important definitions, theorems, remarks, and examples -- it would also be nice if you fixed all of my mistakes :) Add any extra examples and homework problems that clarify the subjects covered.

All together: quizzes, workshops, notes will count 100 points.

In summary, here are the components of the term grade with their maximum possible points:

One last note about grades... This is an honors course, so I expect that most (if not all) of you will get an "A", "B+", or "B". I imagine that completing all of your assignments should pretty well guarantee this. The moral of the story: "Do your work and you should be fine."