Math 125 B - Calculus II - Spring 2007

Final Exam: Date, Ground Rules and Rooms.

Lectures
Monday/Wednesday/Friday
10:30 - 11:20
Gould Hall (GLD) - Room 322

Instructor

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

TAs

Michael Gaul (BA)
Padelford Hall C-435
mpg2@math.washington.edu

Eina Ooka (BB and BC)
Padelford Hall C-8E
einao@math.washington.edu

Topics

Daily Announcements and Overheads ("Daily highlights")

The Course
Grades
Homework
Exams
TA Sections and TA's
The Textbook

Calculator Policy
Cell phone etiquette
Incompletes

Syllabus and Homework Assignments

Office Hours

A note to the student (Please read)

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.

Send email to the Math 125 B class email list! <math125b_sp07@u.washington.edu>

Go to the Math 125 B class email infomation page (You can view the archive of past emails here)

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.
Dr. Loveless Math 125 Material Archive
(This contains extra practice problems for integration techniques along with various review sheets)
The Center for Learning and Undergraduate Enrichment.
UW Student Counseling Center.

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. A variety of techniques will be be studied and used to compute difficult antiderivatives. The course 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:

30 points -- Worksheets (done in TA section)
50 points -- Weekly homework assignments
60 points -- First Midterm
60 points -- Second Midterm
100 points -- Final Exam

The total number of points is 300.

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Weekly Homework

Homework will be assigned daily. The homework will form a core part of the course. See the syllabus for the problems due. You are responsible for all of the problems assigned. The problems assigned during the week will be collected in Quiz Section on the following Tuesday. No late homework will be accepted, however your lowest homework score will be dropped in computing your total homework grade.

The TAs will grade your homework and the homework will count for a very significant portion of your grade. It is very important to do all the homework in order to learn the material. The significant amount of effort which you will make in completing and mastering all of the homework each week will be directly reflected in your homework grades, and indirectly will have a big influence on your performance on the exams. 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.

Exams

There will be 2 midterm exams. They will be given on Thursday, April 19 and Thursday, May 17 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, June 2 in TBA.

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Rules for taking exams

You are allowed to use one handwritten, two-sided 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 (which means mandatory attendence at a University sanctioned event) for missing a midterm, speak to the professor about it at least one week before the exam.

TA sections

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 TA 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 30 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.

The midterm exams will be held in TA Sections.

The TA's are:

Sections	Name	Office	Email
BA	Michael Gaul	PDL C-435	mpg2@math.washington.edu
BB & BC	Eina Ooka	PDL C-8E	einao@math.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). 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 exam 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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