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Calculus III Syllabus

Marlow Anderson

Department of Mathematics

Tutt Science Center 206B, extension 6543

We will be covering Chapters 12-17 of Calculus, by Jon Rogawski. We will be meeting at 9:15 a.m. each morning. In addition, there will be recommended problem sessions held 2 p.m. on some afternoons. The dates are on the schedule.

I will be available after class in the mornings, and in the afternoons, usually from 1 to 3 p.m. I’m also around at other times; please come see me if you are having trouble. Paraprofessional Lauren Bose will also be glad to help you; her office is TSC 210, and her office hours will be posted there (Lauren will be conducting the problem sessions for our course).

On the third Monday of the block, there will be a closed book, notes and colleagues Midterm Examination, lasting from 1 to 2:30 p.m, and covering chapters 12-14. This exam will count for 30% of your grade. That morning class will consist of a review for the exam.

On the last day of the block, there will be a Final Examination, lasting from 9 a.m. to the end of the block; it will count for 30% of your grade. It will be cover integration – Chapters 15-17.

You will find below a generous list of suggested homework problems for each section of the text we discuss, up to the midterm. I will provide problems for the second half of the course later. These problems will not be collected or graded – please talk to Lauren, myself, your classmates, or anyone else who will listen about these problems! I will regularly select a few of these problems for students to do on the board, so that we can discuss them as a group. Here are some homework problems for Chapters 15-17.

Five times during the block I will hand out a Quiz, which will have problems similar to homework problems. This quiz is due by the end of business the day it is handed out, and you should NOT discuss the quiz with anyone except myself. You MAY consult your notes or text while doing the quiz. The Quiz will not include any material from that day’s class session – you might often be able to complete it immediately after class. Each Quiz counts for 8% of your grade.

I will occasionally use mathematical software in class to draw pictures, and do numerical integration. These programs are available in the Mathematics Computer Lab. Some graphical capability will occasionally be useful for understanding homework problems, and I will assume you have some method (either a computer program or calculator) to do numerical integration.