Prerequisite: Honors Calculus II or permission
Text: James Stewart's Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 5th edition, Brooks/Cole, 1999, ISBN 0-534-39321-7. Addall.com prices -- cost approx. $20 (used).
Web Page: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~wjcook/ma251H-fall2007.
(The main course webpage for Math 251 has extra information about Maple.)
Meeting times: The lecture will be held every Monday and Wednesday from 5:00pm until 6:20pm in the
Science and Engineering Resource
Center (SEC) room 216 on Busch Campus. Recitations will be held every Tuesday in SEC room 211.
***Note*** Our second recitation will be used to introduce you to Maple (a computer algebra system).
So, on Tuesday, September 11th we will meet in the
Allison Road Classroom Building (ARC)
computer lab 118.
Final Exam: The final exam will be held on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 from 4:00pm until 7:00pm. The final exam will be held in our regular classroom (SEC 216).
Lecturer:
Name:
Dr. William (Bill) Cook
Office:
Hill Center 334 (on the Busch Campus)
Office hours:
Monday and Wednesday from 3:30pm until class
Phone:
(732) 445-1316
Email:
Webpage:
Peer Mentor:
Name:
Chris Sadowski
Email:
Calculators and Exam Helps:
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. 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, quizzes,
workshop/homework problems, and on class participation. Here is more information about the
individual components of the grade: Exams: There will be two 80 minute exams and a cumulative
final. Each of the 80 minute exams will make up 20% of your final grade and the final will
make up 40% of your grade. 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 will be written by me (Dr. Cook). Homework/Quizzes: Students are expected to keep up with the suggested
textbook homework problems. 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 will have a short quiz every few weeks to help prepare
for exams. In summary, here are the components of the term grade:
Component Percentage Exam #1 20% Exam #2 20% Final Exam 40% Quizzes/Homework 20%
Other times by appointment
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
a good thing.
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 and turned in. Workshop solutions should look "nice". Let me
encourage you to use Maple to help you do difficult calculations and to
generate "pretty" text and graphs.
Throughout the semester I will assign Maple labs. These labs should help further your understanding
of the course material as well as gain experience using a computer algebra system.
We will most likely have a total of 5 quizzes, 5 workshops, and 5 Maple labs. All together these
assigments will make up the remaining 20% of your term grade.