CALCULUS WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY I
MAC 2311-4960

Fall 2002

Instructor: Tomas Schonbek
S & E 218, Ext. 7-3355
e-mailschonbek@fau.edu
Office Hours: MWF 10:00AM-12:00 PM,
or by appointment
Textbook: Calculus

Early Transcendentals
by
James Stewart
Fourth Edition, Brooks/Cole, 1999

Course Description

We shall try to cover Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5 of the textbook. We shall move at a relatively brisk pace, so try not to fall behind; it may be hard to catch up.

Grading for the course will be based on three in class exams, a final exam, and quizzes. Since it is very important that you do (a lot) of exercises from the problem sections of the textbook, homework may be occasionally or frequently assigned. Each graded homework will then count as an additional quiz. The quizzes will account for 15% of your grade. For the remaining 85% of your grade, two options will be available:

  1. 60% based on the three in class exams (20% each) and 25% on the final exam.
  2. The lowest of the in class exams gets dropped, 40% of the grade is based on the remaining two (20% each) and 45% on the final exam.
There is one and only one way to make up for missed exams or low scores: Doing very well on the final exam.

No other make-ups will be given.

Most of the quizzes will be short quizzes, 10 to 30 minutes long and mostly administered on Thursdays (except during an exam week). However, there may also be some "pop-up" quizzes; especially on days of very low attendance. For the most part, the quizzes will consist of up to five exercises similar or identical to assigned textbook exercises. Please notice that "for the most part" does NOT mean "always." Depending on the total number of quizzes, the grades of one, two (or more) quizzes will be dropped.

Exam Dates

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