CALCULUS II FOR ENGINEERS
MAC 2254 001 13288

Spring 2008

Instructor: Tomas Schonbek
S & E 262, Ext. 7-3355
e-mail schonbek@fau.edu
Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:50PM,

or by appointment

Due to unforeseen circumstances, office hours may be cancelled without prior notice.
Class Times:The class meets MTWThF 12:00-12:50PM in AL 343.
Textbook: Thomas' Calculus

Early Transcendentals
by George B. Tomas Jr., as revised by M.D. West, J. Hass, and F.R. Giordano
Eleventh Edition, Pearson/Addison Wesley, 2008

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Course Description

We shall try to cover most of Chapters 6, 7, 8, and 11 of the textbook. Time permitting, we shall also cover Chapter 9. We shall move at a relatively brisk pace, so try not to fall behind; it may be hard to catch up.

I am planning to follow the textbook quite closely. In the links section at the bottom of this page you have a link to a tentative course calendar. The number at the top left of each calendar day is the section in Thomas' textbook that I am planning to cover that day. The numbers below refer to exercises in that section of the textbook. I may or may not be able to follow the calendar precisely, it is only a guide.

Grading will be based on ALEKS, Homework, Exams, class participation, and (maybe) quizzes. ALEKS will account for 10% of your grade. Homework consists of the exercises mentioned in the calendar. Homework will be collected on the first class day of each week (usually Monday, except for the week of Martin Luther King's Day). The homework that you have to hand in consists of all the exercises mentioned in the calendar of each section that was actually covered in the previous week. It is a good idea not to wait until the last moment to write out your answers. Homework will be judged on presentation (always) and on content (not always). I may or may not actually grade each exercise of the homework; there might be times when the grade may be based more on looks than on content. By ``presentation'' I mean it has to be presented as if you cared about my opinion on what you are doing. It should be legible, if you use ruled paper you should obey the lines, if you use non-ruled paper you should write straight. You should staple all your sheets together. Homework is another 10% of your grade. The importance of homework cannot be overestimated. In fact, you should do considerably more exercises from each section than the assigned homework. It may be the only way of getting a good grade.

As you can see from the calendar, exams are planned for the following dates:

  1. Tuesday, January 29, 2008.
  2. Tuesday, February 26, 2008.
  3. Friday, March 14, 2008. (The integration quiz will count as an exam.)
  4. Tuesday, April 8, 2008.
    5. There is also a cumulative final exam on Sunday, April 27, 4-6:30PM. Each in class exam will contribute 15% of the grade, the final exam will count for 20% of the grade. However, you will be allowed to make up for one of the four in class exams by having the final count as 35% of your grade. There will be no other way of making up for a bad or a missed exam

    Class participation will be graded based on performance during the problem solving sessions. You will get extra points to be applied to exams. There may or may not be pop-up quizzes. These quizzes would probably consist on having you do one or more simple exercises, they would typically be 5 to 10 minutes long, and affect your homework grade. One purpose of having these quizzes is to motivate you to come to class; the most likely day for a quiz is any day in which attendance is unusually low.

    ALEKS

    By agreement with the College of Engineering, it is required that you use an online system for skill refreshment in “Preparation for Calculus”. Please refer to http://www.highedmath.aleks.com.You need to register with the course code: XLREW-AKAX3. You will also need an individual Access Code for ALEKS (20 characters). This access code can be purchased for $21.25 online at the following web address and gives you 6 weeks of access to ALEKS: http://www.mhhe.com/aleks. However, for this course, all your ALEKS work must be completed by January 22. If you have “operational problems” in using ALEKS, please e-mail your questions to support@aleks.com or call (714) 245-7191 x201.

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