MA122- Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences II
Summer II, 2011
M,T,W,R 1-3pm in PSY B41
Contact Information
Instructor: Anna Barry
Boston University Department of Mathematics
Office: MCS 151 111 Cummington St
Phone: (617) 358-2378
Email: annab@math.bu.edu
Summer 2011 Office Hours: Monday 12-1 PM, Wednesday 3-4 PM and by appointment
Course Links
It has been said that when Peter Lax was awarded the National Medal of Science, the other recipients asked him what he did to deserve the Medal.
Lax responded: "I integrated by parts."
Announcements
- Welcome to MA 122!
- 3-body problem movies link: http://faculty.ifmo.ru/butikov/Projects/Collection.html
- The first quiz will be held in class on Monday, July 11.
- Office hours have been updated (see above).
- The university has decided that this Friday, July 8 is a BU Monday. Therefore, we will have class.
- The first exam will be held next Monday, July 18 and will cover Chapters 7 and 8 of the text.
- The exam will be over Sections 7.1-7.3 (everything we've done in class from these sections) and Sections 8.1-8.3.
- Section 8.4 will not be on the exam.
- I will be available (in my office) to answer questions related to the exam from 10am-1pm on Monday, July 18.
- Quiz 1 solutions are posted under "Quiz and Exam Solutions" above.
- Quiz 2 will be held on Monday, July 25 and will cover sections 8.6 and 8.7.
- The last day of class will be on Wednesday, August 10. There will be no class on August 11.
- Illustrations of the relationship between the graphs of Sine and Cosine and the unit circle can be found HERE
and HERE.
- Tuesday, July 26: Quiz 2 solutions are posted.
- A take-home quiz will be handed out in class tomorrow, Thursday, August 4, and will be due on Monday,
August 8 at the beginning of class. Your total quiz score will be comprised of your top two quiz grades. NO late quizzes will be accepted-- Do not be late to class on Monday.
- The final exam is cumulative and will be held during class next Wednesday, August 10.
- For help with visualizing slope fields and solutions to differential equations, try this applet.
- Wednesday, August 3-- Exam 2 solutions are now posted.
- Quiz 3 (Take-home) is posted HERE.
- August 4-- Exam 1 Solutions have also been posted in the Quiz/Exam solutions section.