Instructor:
Gene Wayne Math Department 111 Cummington Street Room 242 Phone: 353-1495 e-mail: cew@math.bu.edu
Office Hours:
Monday: 11:15-12:15 Wednesday: 2:15-3:15 Friday: 8:45-9:45
I encourage you to come to my office hours if you have any questions about the course. If you want to speak with me, but are unable to come to see me at any of my regular office hours, please let me know and we can schedule a mutually convenient time.
Discussion Sections: There are five discussion sections for this course; You must be enrolled in one of these, and attend the discussion hour every week. In particular, all quizzes will be given during this period. The discussion sections will be conducted Mr. T. J Peacher, the teaching fellow for this course. His office is in 261 MCS and his office hours are Thursday 9:00-11:00.
Text Book:
Calculus, Concepts and Contexts., by J. Stewart, Chapters 2-8.
Examinations: There will three in-class midterm exams, on September 27, October 25, and November 19. The comprehensive final exam will take place on December 22 from 9:00-11:00am.
The midterm exams will take place
in room COM 101 and the final exam will be in room CAS 224.
All of these exams will be closed book, and no notes or ``crib sheets'' will be allowed.
Grading: In addition to the examinations above, I will assign
homework at the end of each lecture. You are encouraged to
work together with your classmates on the homework problems.
This homework will not be graded,
but there will be a 15-20 minute quiz at the end of your discussion section
each week and the questions on these quizzes will be very similar
to the homework problems. No make-up quizzes will be
given. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped in
calculating your final grade. Your final grade will be determined
by the following procedure:
Quizzes: 15 % Each Midterm: 20 % Final Exam: 25 %
As a reminder, while you are encouraged to work together on the homework,
you are to rely only on your own ideas and knowledge on the quizzes and exams.
Use of another individual's work, however it is communicated, is not
permitted.
Math Tutoring: Free tutoring is available in the Math. Dept., Room 144, from 9:00-5:00, Monday-Friday. If it happens that there is no tutor in the room when you arrive there, see the secretary in the Math. Dept. Office to find out when the next tutor will be available.
Calculators: You are allowed to use calculators on the homework, quizzes, and exams for this course (though there may be certain problems on some exams for which calculator use is not permitted). Indeed, some of the problems will be difficult, if not impossible, to do without a calculator. I will also use a graphing calculator during the lectures. I will do the demonstrations using a TI-86 calculator, but you may use any sort of graphing calculator that you wish.
Extra Reading: For an interesting and non-technical, albeit somewhat idiosyncratic, view of the main ideas of calculus, you may wish to read A Tour of the Calculus, by David Berlinski, published by Pantheon Books.
Week 1: Chapter 2.
Week 2: Chapter 3.
Week 3: End of Chapter 3, and first section of Chapter 4.
Week 4: Midterm 1 and part Chapter 4.
Week 5: Remainder of Chapter 4.
Week 6: First two sections of Chapter 5.
Week 7: Midterm 2 and part of Chapter 5.
Week 8: Remainder of Chapter 5.
Weeks 9 and 10: Sections 6.1 and 6.2 and Midterm 3.
Weeks 11 and 12: Remainder of Chapter 6 and Chapter 7.
Week 13: Chapter 8.