Math 125A - Calculus II - Spring 2006

Final Exam: Date, Ground Rules and Rooms.

Review Session: Tuesday, May 30 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm in MEB 238 (possibly to be continued on Thursday). Prepare to discuss the exams from Spring 2003 and Winter 2003 (both are in your course packs).

The Math Department does not allow instructors to overload this class.
The best way to get in is to keep trying on-line

Lectures
Monday/Wednesday/Friday
10:30 - 11:20
Mechanical Engineering (MEB) - Room 238

Instructor

Daniel Pollack
Padelford Hall C-550
Phone: 206-543-1809
pollack@math.washington.edu

Topics

Calculator Policy
Cell phone etiquette
The Course
Syllabus and Homework Assignments

Office Hours
Grades
Homework
Quizzes and Exams
Quiz Section and TA's
The Textbook

Incompletes

A note to the student

Daily Announcements and Overheads ("Daily highlights")

Math 125 Materials Website. This website has a large number of quizzes and exams from previous quarters. Most of this material is also available, for a small fee, as a packet from the Copy Center in the basement of the Communications Building.

Mathematic Study Center. The MSC will be providing services for students in Math 125. The MSC is located in B14 Communications, directly below A&S advising. It is a valuable resource which you should definitely take advantage of. The MSC is not a tutoring center in the traditional sense. The MSC provides a comfortable place for students to come together and study, in groups or individually. There are a number of tutors (graduate student TA's, advanced undergraduates and faculty) on staff who will sit down with students to help them get unstuck or to answer questions. The MSC does not provide long blocks of uninterrupted one-on-one tutoring. Textbooks, calculators and other study materials are available to be checked out for in-room use.

The Course

This course is an introduction to integral calculus. We will review antiderivatives and then study the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. We will use this theorem to compute areas and volumes, as well as a number of other applications. We will study a variety of techniques which will be used to compute difficult antiderivatives. We will conclude with an introduction to differential equations. If you want a good grade in this class, you should expect to spend at least 12 hours a week on homework.

Grades

Your grade will be determined based on your total score for the course, which is computed as follows:

Worksheets (done in class) -- 25
Quizzes based on weekly homework assignments -- 75
First Midterm -- 50
Second Midterm -- 50
Final -- 100

The total number of points is 300.

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Homework

Homework will be assigned daily, see the syllabus for the problems due. You are responsible for all the problems assigned (i.e. any of it could appear on the quizzes or exams). You should do the problems assigned during the week as if they will be collected in Quiz Section on the following Tuesday.

We will however not be actually collecting and grading the homework this quarter. Instead, the quizzes will be very closely based on the homework (hence the high number of points alloted to the quizzes should be regarded in part as your homework grade as well). It is very important to do all the homework in order to learn the material. A significant amount of effort in completing and mastering all of the homework each week will be directly reflected in your quiz grades. It is important to keep up with the homework. The homework will play a key role in your learning the material.

The best way to be sure you get the most out of your homework is to work with others. I strongly urge you to form a study group and work collaboratively on the homework problems. This way you'll learn more, and you'll maximize your chances of getting all the problems correct. The only limitation on collaboration is that, after you and your study group have worked out how to do the problems, you must each write up your own solutions in your own words.

Quizzes and Exams

There will be a 20 minute quiz every Tuesday, except for the first week of classes. These will cover the homework from the preceding week. They will be very similar to the homework problems, and often taken directly from the HW. Making sure that you understand how to do each and every HW problem is the best way to insure good scores on the quizzes. The TA's will grade them and return them to you the following Thursday. The quizzes are closed book/closed notes. There are no make up quizzes, but I do drop your 2 lowest quiz scores.

There will be 2 midterm exams. They will be given on Thursday, April 20 and Thursday, May 18 as listed in the syllabus. They are meant to take 50 minutes but you can take the full 70 minutes of 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 11 in TBA.

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Rules for taking exams

You are allowed to use one handwritten 8.5 by 11 sheet of notes.

GRAPHING CALCULATORS AND CELL PHONES ARE NOT ALLOWED during exams or quizzes. You may use a scientific calculator.

There are no make-up exams. If you have a compelling and well-documented reason for missing a midterm, speak to the professor about it at least one week before the exam.

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 questions answered. Thursday's quiz section will be 80 minutes long so that, in addition to getting help with your homework, there will be time for a worksheet that you can work on while the TA circulates and answers questions. You must do the worksheet during the section, you may not hand in an already completed worksheet for credit. At the end of the class the TA will collect the worksheets and give you one of three possible scores: 0 (if you did nothing or did not hand in a worksheet), 1 (if you left early or did very little), or 2 (if you clearly made an honest effort to complete the worksheet). The average of these grades will be converted into a score out of 25 points which will contribute to your overall course score as described above. It should be clear that you should all plan on easily getting all of these 25 points. Most weeks there will be a quiz on Tuesday. The midterm exams will be held in Quiz Section.

The TA's are:

Sections	Name	Office	Email
AA & AC	Edwin O'Shea	PDL C-8F	oshea@math.washington.edu
AB	James Merryfield	PDL C-20	merryj@amath.washington.edu

Text

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

You can also use the smaller Single Variable Calculus but only if you are sure you will not be taking Math 126.

Calculators

You will need a scientific calculator for Math 125. It must have trigonometric functions, like Sin and Cos, as well as logarithms and exponentials (ln and exp). I recommend the HP-6S, which costs about $15 at the U Bookstore. The Sharp EL-500LB is also a good choice. It is a little less easy to use, but costs only $10. GRAPHING CALCULATORS ARE NOT ALLOWED on quizzes and exams in Math 125 this Winter. A graphing calculator is any device with a multiline display that has the ability to graph mathematical functions. Examples are the TI-85 or the HP-48G. See your instructor before the first quiz if you are not certain if your calculator is acceptable.

Cell phones

As a courtesy to your instructor and your fellow students, please be sure to turn off your mobile phones before coming into the classroom. Any calls received during class will bring the classroom discussion to an abrupt halt and all attention will be diverted to the call recipient until the call is ended and phone turned off.

Incompletes

A grade of Incomplete will be given only if a student is doing satisfactory work up until the end of the quarter, and then misses the final exam due to a documented medical or family emergency.

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