CALCULUS WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY II
MAC 2312-11275
NEW:    IMPORTANT CHANGE The management of the course has decided that more time needs to be spent on the topics of Chapter 11 and that Exam 6 is a distraction that cannot be afforded. Therefore, Exam 6 is hereby cancelled. In its place, there will be a homework handed out (and posted on the web) on Friday July 18, due on Wednesday, July 23, at 2:30PM. The solutions to Exam 6 will be (eventually) posted below. In the meantime, exam 6 is available in pdf form by clicking here.

You might want to check up the solutions I wrote for Homework 6 last semester. Some even textbook problems from Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 get detailed solutions. (See from exercise 5 onward; exercises 1-4 are from Chapter 8). The URL is http://www.math.fau.edu/schonbek/calculus/c2sp03h6s.pdf

I will be allowing students to make-up for one of exams 2, 3, 4 on Wednesday, June 25, 2003; 5PM-6:05PM. The time and date are still subject to change, the place is to be announced.
Make-up Rules If you decide to take a make-up, you will have to let me know by 10AM, June 24, for which exam you want to make up. If your grade in the original exam was 65 or less, then your final grade for the exam in question will be the higher one of the two grades (original and make-up). If your grade was 66 or higher, then the make-up grade supplants the original grade.

Summer 2003

Instructor: Tomas Schonbek
S & E 218, Ext. 7-3355
e-mail schonbek@fau.edu
Office Hours: MWF 1:00PM-2:00 PM,

or by appointment
Textbook: Calculus

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

Tutorial Sessions for Calculus

Problem solving sessions will be held each Thursday, 1:00PM to 3:25PM; in our computer Lab, SE 271. Attendance to these sessions is optional, but highly recommended. Additional help by teaching assistants may become available later on; if so, it will be announced in class and on this page.

Course Description

We shall try to cover Chapters 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11 of the textbook. We shall move at a very brisk pace, so try not to fall behind; it may be impossible to catch up. Calculus is a tough course, and I am not planning to make it any simpler than it should be. In the links section at the bottom of this page, you'll find a link to a calendar of events, detailing all the topics to be covered and the exam dates. The first exam is a ``diagnostic exam,'' designed to test your knowledge of the basic topics of Calculus I. If your average in the remaining exams is C or better, then the grade of this first exam will be ignored in the preparation of the final grades. Otherwise, it will be averaged in. In addition, I will use the result of this first exam to advise you on whether to stay or not to stay in the course. You are free to follow or ignore my advice. However, you should take two things into consideration. Doing poorly on this exam indicates that your background is shaky and needs a lot of firming up, regardless of what grade you got in Calculus I. Doing well in it is not a free pass for the Calculus II course.

Grading for the course will be based on these six regular exams (worth 70% of the grade altogether) and the two part final exam (30% of the grade). You will be allowed to make up for one regular exam past the first one, if you miss it (or if you are not happy with the grade).

Exam Dates

  1. Diagnostic Exam. Wednesday, May 14, 2003.
  2. Exam on 6.1-6.5. Friday, May 23, 2003.
  3. Exam on 7.1-7.5. Friday, June 6, 2003.
  4. Exam on 7.7, 7.8, 8.1-8.4. Friday, June 20, 2003.
  5. Exam on 10.1-10.5. Thursday, July 3, 2003.
  6. Exam on 10.6, 10.7, 11.1-11.4. Friday, July 18, 2003.
  7. Final Exam, Part 1.Wednesday, August 6, 2003.
  8. Final Exam, Part 2.Thursday, August 7, 2003.

Some unconventional calculus books

(The prices may have changed.)

LINKS

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