Fall 2006
Instructor : Brian Shelburne 329-E Science
Class times : MWF 9:10 -10:10 Rm 260 BDK Science
Office Hours : MWF 3:00 - 5:00; Tu 9 - 12 or anytime outside my regularly scheduled classes and meetings.
Calculators: Students are required to have a graphing calculator. I suggest something like a TI-83 Plus, TI-84 or TI-86 (the TI-84 is your best bet). You many not use a graphing calculator which has Symbolic Algebra Capability, for example a TI-89, TI-92 or Voyage 200.
Web Sites: The author’s web-site http://www.wiley.com/college/hugheshallett has links to a Student Companion Site which in turn has links to on-line quizzes (good for review and to test your knowledge) and an Online Theory Supplement. The Theory Supplement is a .pdf document that contains additional material for the course. Occasionally I will require that you download and study this material.
Outline of Course Material: We will cover most of the material in Chapters 1 – 6 (skipping some of the sections) plus Ch 7.1 (Integration by Substitution).
Grading
Quizzes 75 pts Homework 75 pts Three 100 point in-class tests 300 pts Final Exam 200 pts Total 650 pts
Letter grades will be determined by the standard 90% - 80 % - 70% 60 % scale applied to 650 points. Scores within 3 percentage points of the 90% – 80% – 70% - 60% cut-offs will be modified by pluses or minuses. For example, an A- is between 90% (inclusive) and 93% while a B+ is between 87% and 90% (exclusive).
Quizzes Weekly quizzes will be given based on the homework. Quizzes will be worth 10 points with lowest quiz grade dropped. The average of the remaining quizzes will be scaled to 75 points.
Homework: Daily homework will be assigned. The homework questions given at the end of each section fall into two categories: exercises and problems. Generally all exercises will be assigned but not graded. A selection of problems will be assigned. Some of these will be passed in to be graded.
Student's may collaborate on homework but problems handed in for grading must be your own write-up’s. In other words you may work together but should not copy another's work. Clarity and neatness counts!
Class Attendance & Class Attendance Bonus: You are expected to attend every class. If a class is missed, you are still responsible for any missed material. If you miss no more than 3 classes, 20 points will be added to your total.
Honor Code. All quizzes and tests will carry the standard pledge which must be signed: I affirm that my work upholds the highest standards of honesty and academic integrity at Wittenberg and that I have neither given nor received unauthorized assistance.
Homework assignments are not pledged.
Links
Student Companion Site for Calculus 4th Ed by Hughes-Hallett, Gleason, McCallum et al can be found at: www.wiley.com/college/hugheshallett. Scroll down the page and follow the link.
Euclid's Elements On-Line. "The" textbook on Geometry written by Euclid around 300 B.C.E. is brought forward into the 21th Century C.E.
Continuous Compounding vs Annual Compounding: A brief description of the difference between annual growth rate exponential functions (i.e. functions of the form P = P0 (1+r)^ t or P = P0 a^t where a = 1 + r ) and continuous growth rate exponential functions (i.e. functions of the form P = P0 e ^(rt) ). In the first case r is the annual growth rate while in the second r is the continuous growth rate.