Math 136: Calculus II

Spring 2010
Section 1 - W1 - SC102, Section 2 - W2 - HH A5, Section 3 - W3 - FH A2

TA: Sara Blight
E-mail: blight@math.rutgers.edu
Office: Hill Center 521
Office hours: Mon. 5-6pm, Wed. 2-3pm, and by arrangement.

Announcements:

This site is intended to be an overview of the recitation session. Be sure to check out sakai.rutgers.edu for more details.
Here is the handout given in the first recitation session.
Here are the suggested problems from 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5 for those of you who do not have the textbook yet. Please get the textbook as soon as possible
Here are the suggested problems from 5.8 for those of you who do not have the textbook yet.
Here are the suggested problems from 6.1 for those of you who do not have the textbook yet.
Here are the suggested problems from 6.2 for those of you who do not have the textbook yet.
Here are the suggested problems from 6.6 for those of you who do not have the textbook yet.
Here are the suggested problems from 7.1 and 7.2 for those of you who do not have the textbook yet. A few of the problems do require a table of integrals. You can get this from a friend, the book on reserve or from the math library.
There is now a textbook on reserve in the SERC reading room on Busch campus. The book can be used at the reading room.

Where to get help: Tutoring Options

Websites: Dr. Sosa has a website: Sosa's website . There is a sakai site for the course at sakai.rutgers.edu . You can sign in using your netid and password.

Textbook: The current textbook for this course is a Calculus and Its Applications, a custom text for Rutgers University, published by Pearson Custom Publishing (ISBN 0-536-51820-3). The text is based primarily on Calculus, Third Edition, by Strauss, Bradley and Smith, but also contains material from Calculus & Its Applications, by Goldstein, both published by Prentice Hall.

What is Math 136? Math 136 is the second semester of the Math 135-136 sequence for students studying Life Sciences or Social Sciences. Math 136 is designed specifically for students who want a second semester of calculus for their technical background, but who do not intend to take further courses in Calculus or Differential Equations. Therefore, Math 136 offers a mixture of traditional Calculus II topics and of additional topics--such as mulitivariate functions and constrained optimization using Lagrange multipliers--that students are likely to meet in scientific applications.

General Information: A link for 136 from Dr. Sosa's webpage will give you information regarding the textbook, calculators in the course,and a general outline of the course. The pace of the course and the assignments might differ slightly for your section of the course.

Recitation Format: Homework is due at the beginning of each recitation session. Then there will be time for questions. This is an opportunity for you to ask questions about course material. If you do not have questions, I will pick some sample problems and we will work through those problems. At the end of every recitation session, there will be a short 15 minute quiz on the material covered during the previous week.

Homework: Each week, Dr. Sosa will select some homework problems and give you a time when they are due. The homework will be turned at the beginning of each recitation. NO late homework will be accepted. Each homework assignment will be out of 10 points. Five of the points will be given for completeness and 5 of the points will be given for correctness of some problems chosen by me. Graded homework will be returned the next week.

Quizzes: There will be a quiz at the end of each recitation. The quiz will cover the material from the previous week. There will not be any make-up quizzes, but the lowest two quiz grades will be dropped.

Important Dates

Jan. 19: First Day of Classes
Jan. 25: Last day to drop courses without a "W"
Jan. 26: Add period ends
Mar. 13-21: Spring Recess, No Classes
Mar. 22: Withdrawal Period Ends
Sep. 7: Labor Day, No Classes
May 3: Last Day of Classes
May 4-5: Reading Days
May 6-12: Final Exams