Math 126B - Calculus III - Winter 2005

Course Grades Are Now Available

Lectures

Monday/Wednesday/Friday
11:30 - 12:20
Electrical Engineering 105

Instructor

Patrick T. Perkins
Communications B-014
Phone: 206-685-4703
perkins 'at' math.washington.edu

Topics

Course Grade and Final Exam results.

Calculator Policy
The Course
Syllabus and Homework Assignments
Office Hours
Grades
Homework
Quizzes and Exams
Quiz Section and TA's
The Textbook
Final Exam location and ground rules.

Math 126 Materials Website. This website has a large number of quizzes and exams from previous quarters. But it's still being worked on.
Warning: The syllabus has changed recently. Most of this material probably out of date. I still think it is worth looking at.

The Course

This course covers a few miscellaneous topics from calculus. The first two weeks is devoted to a study of sequences and series. This culminates in Taylor's beautiful theorem. This material is useful for solving differential equations and for making approximations. The rest of the course is spent on calculus in three dimensions. This part of the course is interesting because we live in three dimensional space. We first cover the basics of analytic geometry in three-space. We then discuss parametric equations and introduce the differential calculus of vector valued functions. The class finishes with an introduction to multivariable integration.

Grades

Your grade is determined by how you do relative to the class as a whole. Grades will be based on total points earned. There are 300 possible points:

Homework--50
Quizzes--50
2 Midterms--50 points each
Final--100

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Homework

will be assigned daily, see the syllabus for the problems due. You are responsible for all the problems assigned (ie: any of it could appear on the exams). The problems assigned during the week will be collected in Quiz Section on the following Tuesday.

Unfortunately, the amount of homework that can be graded is limited. Three of the problems will be chosen at random to grade. They will be worth 3 points each. This makes a total of 9 points. In addition to this, you will receive a score out of 4 points reflecting the percentage of the homework you completed. (For example, if you completed about 75% of the assignment, you would receive an additional 3 points.) Thus the total possible score for each assignment is 13 points. The lowest weekly homework score will be dropped. No late homework will be accepted.

Quizzes and Exams

There will be a 20 minute quiz every Thursday, except for the weeks of the exams. These will usually cover the homework from the preceeding Monday or Friday. They will be very similar to the homework problems. The TA's will grade them and return them to you the following Tuesday. The quizzes are closed book/closed notes and you cannot use a calculator. There are no make up quizzes, but I do drop your lowest quiz score.
There will be 2 midterm exams. They will be given on the dates listed in the syllabus. They are 50 minutes long and will be given in Quiz Section. You must bring a Photo ID to all exams.
The final exam will take place from 1:30pm to 4:20pm on Saturday, March 12. Note that this is not the time listed in the final exam schedule. It will be held in Kane 130.

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Rules for taking exams

You are allowed to use one handwritten 8.5 by 11 sheet of notes.
There are no make-up exams. If you have a compelling and well-documented reason for missing a test, speak to the professor about it.

Quiz section

On Tuesdays and Thursdays you will meet with a Teaching Assistant in a smaller group. This gives you a chance to get more of your homework questions answered. Some weeks there may be a worksheet on Tuesday that you can work on while the TA circulates and answers questions. Most weeks there will be a quiz on Thursday. You will hand in homework on Tuesdays to your TA and they will return it to you, probably a week later. The midterm exams will be held in Quiz Section.

The TA's are:

Sections	Name	Office	Email
BA & BB	Ilgar Eroglu	PDL C-552	kieroglu 'at' math.washington.edu
BC & BD	Ursula Whitcher	PDL C-446	ursula 'at' math.washington.edu

Text

Calculus, Early Transcendentals by James Stewart
(The Fifth Edition).

You can also use the smaller Early Transcendentals Multivariable Calculus.

Note: We are using the new 5th edition this year and the homework problems are different from the 4th edition.

Calculators

Calculators are not allowed on exams or quizzes in Math 126.

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Mathematics Department

University of Washington