MATH 152H (Sections 201-202) - First Day Handout

Calculus II (Honors) - Fall 2005

General information

Time and place:    MWF 9:10 - 10:00 am, BLOC 164
Instructor:    Lenny Fukshansky
Office:    Milner 209
Phone:    (979) 845 - 7797
Email:    lenny@math.tamu.edu
Office hours:    (tentatively) MWF 10:00 - 11:00 am or by appointment

Recitations:    Section 201: T 8:00-8:50 am BLOC 130 R 8:00-8:50 am ENPH 212
                      Section 202:   T 3:55-4:45 pm BLOC 127 R 3:55-4:45 pm ENPH 212

TA:   Haibo Yang
Office:    Milner 009
Phone:    (979) 845 - 8192
Email:    hbyang@tamu.edu
Office Hours:    T Th 9:10 - 10:30 am

Class webpage:    http://www.math.tamu.edu/~lenny/fall_2005.html
Recitation section webpage:    http://www.math.tamu.edu/~hbyang/math152/

The class webpage is a good source for all class related information. Please check it regularly.

Textbooks: (Required) Calculus: Early Vectors (Aggie Version), Stewart and Calclabs with Maple for Stewarts Calculus Single Variable, Yasskin et al (see Textbooks for more information).

Course description

Catalog description: Differentiation and integration techniques and their applications (area, volumes, work), improper integrals, approximate integration, analytic geometry, vectors, infinite series, power series, Taylor series, computer algebra (Maple). Prerequisite: MATH 151 or equivalent. Credit will not be given for both MATH 152 and 172.

The course meets for three hours per week in lecture with your instructor and twice per week in recitation with your teaching assistant (TA). One of your recitation meetings is designed to discuss questions over homework or lecture. The other recitation meets in the computer laboratory using the computer package Maple. The goal of the computer laboratory portion of the course is to show how problems that are too difficult to solve by hand, can be solved with the help of the computer.

This is the honors version of the standard second semester engineering calculus course descirbed above, which means that we will study the material more in depth, and if time allows cover somewhat more material than the regular course.

Grading policy

Class attendance and homework completion are required parts of the course. Homework assignments will be regularly posted on the course webpage and collected every Friday. Late homework will not be accepted. There will also be lab assignments in the computer recitation section. There may also be occasional 10-minute quizzes administered by the TA in recitation sections. There will be three in class midterm exams and the comprehensive final exam. Here is the tentative exam schedule.

Midterm 1:     Monday, September 26, changed to Wednesday, September 28, in class
Midterm 2:     Monday, October 24, in class
Midterm 3:     Monday, November 28, in class
Final Exam:   Monday, December 12, 8:00 - 10:00 am, in BLOC 164

Make-ups for exams and quizzes will only be given with documented University-approved excuses (see University Regulations).

The grade break-down will be as follows:

Homework + Lab assignments + Quizzes = 25%
Each midterm = 15%
Final = 30%

The grading scale used for this class will be:

85-100% = A
70-84% = B
60-69% = C
50-59% = D
0-49% = F

Additional resources

General information and resources for MATH 152: http://calclab.math.tamu.edu/docs/math152/
Week in Review:                                                             http://www.math.tamu.edu/~amy.austin/wirmath152.html
Fall 2005 Help Session:                                                   http://www.math.tamu.edu/teaching/helpsession/helpsessions.html
Tentative course schedule:                                           http://calclab.math.tamu.edu/docs/math152/syllabus/currentsched.html

Keep in mind that these resources are generally intended for the regular MATH 152 sections, which are slightly different in format from our class, although most of these will still apply and be useful.

Special policies

Please notice that the university regulations prevent us from providing you with any information regarding your performance in this class except for in person. Please DO NOT send us emails with any kind of grade inquiries.

The following are basic rules that all students should follow in order not to disturb the class.

Please make sure to turn off all you cellular phones, pagers, and any other devices that make noise before entering class.
Please do not come late or leave early; if on some occasion it is necessary and cannot be avoided, please do it in a way that does not disturb the class.

Important dates and university policies

September 2, Friday, 5 pm: Last day for adding/dropping courses for the Fall semester.
November 4, Friday, 5 pm: Last day for all students to drop courses with no penalty (Q-drop).

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the Department of Student Life, Services for Students with Disabilities, in Room 126 of the Koldus Building or call 845-1637.

Here is the university academic honor code: http://www.tamu.edu/aggiehonor

The instructor reserves the right to make changes to the class policies.

All printed handouts and web-materials are protected by US Copyright Laws. No multiple copies can be made without written permission by the instructor.