Math
136 : Calculus II
(Summer 2010--Section F6)
WELCOME!
Most questions you may have about the course, and more, are answered on these pages. So please take some time to go through them! Pay particularly close attention to the advice on how to do well in the class. I will assume you have done so in our future communications.
- Instructor: Dr. Vikram Duvvuri, email: duvvuri@math.rutgers.edu
- Note: My lastname has exactly 2 Vs and 1 R, and accounts such as duvvuri@eden or duvvuri@somethingelse don't exist!
- Course meetings: Mon-Wed-Fri, 6:00PM - 8:40PM, ARC-108 (Busch Campus)
- First day of class: June 28 (Monday)
- Holiday: July 5 (Monday)
- My office hours (ie., when no appointment is necessary):
- Mon-Wed-Fri, 4PM-5:30PM, Hill-611 (Busch)
- if you can't make it during any of these, we can set up an appointment
- Textbook (required): Calculus and Its Applications, a custom text for Rutgers University, published by Pearson Custom Publishing (ISBN 0-536-51820-3)
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Course purpose
- 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.
- Life Sciences majors may also take Math 138 to fulfill their requirement of a second semester Calculus course. To decide which course they would prefer, Life Sciences majors should also visit the Math 138 web page.
- To include the additional material described above, Math 136 excludes many topics that are needed in a third semester calculus course such as Math 251. For this reason, Math 136 is not a CALC2 equivalent course . That is, Math 136 will not serve as a prerequisite for Math 251 or any other course requiring a CALC2 prerequisite, except Math 250. The same applies to Math 138.
- Grading criteria
- Lecture schedule
- Exams
- 1st Midterm: July 12 (Monday)
- 2nd Midterm: August 2 (Monday)
- Final Exam: August 18 (Wednesday)
- Calculators won't be allowed on the exams or quizzes. A graphing calculator is not required for the rest of the course either, but many students will find such a calculator useful for homework and webwork. The suggested calculator is the TI-83 Plus. Instructors will be able to provide limited assistance in the use of the TI-83 Plus. Students who purchase other calculators are on their own. Students will not be allowed to use calculators on the final exam.
- ADVICE ON HOW TO DO WELL:
- Cheating: Firstly, you
should decide if that is the sort of person you'd like to be. Secondly, you should know that
the chances of getting caught are quite high, and the consequences rather dire. I hope
this matter never arises, but if it does, you will be subject to the
university policy .
- MATH AND YOUR FUTURE EMPLOYMENT STATUS