Syllabus for Math 151,
Fall `07

Professor: Thomas Schlumprecht
Office: Milner 118
Officehours: Tu 11:00 -11:40 AM Thu 1:00 -1:50 PM or by appointment
e-mail: schlump"at"math.tamu.edu
Home-page: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~thomas.schlumprecht
Home-page for this course: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~thomas.schlumprecht/math151.html
Telephon (979) 845-8840.


Class hours: 

  151 	510-512 	TR 9:35-10:50 	HELD 113
Sections: 
                                                                         
 510 	M 12:40- 1:30 	BLOC 125    W 12:40- 1:30 	 CE  223     
 511 	M  3:00- 3:50 	BLOC 127    W  3:00- 3:50 	Bloc 120    
 512 	M  4:10- 5:00 	BLOC 127    W  4:10- 5:00 	Bloc 163
Teaching Assistant:

Joshua Rhodes; e-mail: jrhodes"at"math.tamu.edu, Tel:(979) 862-2186

Help outside of class: (links can be found on homepage)

Course Description. Credit 4. This course will cover vectors in two dimensions, differentiation and integration of functions of one variable, and applications such as work, velocity/acceleration, optimization (max/min), and curve sketching. The course meets twice in lecture and twice per week in recitation. One of your recitation meetings is designed to discuss questions over homework or lecture. The other recitation meets in the computer laboratory where the computer package Maple will be introduced. The goal of the laboratory portion of the course is to show how problems that are too difficult to solve hand, can be solved with the help of the computer. The prerequisite for this course is either Math 150 (precalculus) or a good high school mathematics background that includes algebra II, analytic geometry and trigonometry.

Texts. Calculus: Early Vectors, preliminary edition, by Stewart et al, published by Brooks/Cole. The computer laboratory will also use Calclabs with Maple , also published by Brooks/Cole.

Grading. Your grade will be determined by three exams, a cumulative final exam, and a laboratory grade. The weights of each of these are as follows. 





















 Exam I       Exam II       Exam III     Final Exam     Lab

 16.66%       16.66%        16.66%        25%            25%  
 Sept. 27     Oct.25        Nov.27       Dec.7         
                                         (12:30-2:300)
Lab grade will be based on a weekly quiz given on Mondays (10%) and the online homework (15%).
Exams I, II and III are common exams (same exam is given for all sections of Math 151) and are administered in the evenings from 7:30-9:30pm. The increased weights of the third and final exams reflect the cumulative nature of the course.

Make-up policy: Make-ups for missed quizzes and exams will only be allowed for a university approved excuse in writing. Wherever possible, students should inform the instructor before an exam or quiz is missed. Consistent with University Student Rules , students are required to notify an instructor by the end of the next working day after missing an exam or quiz. Otherwise, they forfeit their rights to a make-up.

Scholastic dishonesty: Copying work done by others, either in-class or out of class, is an act of scholastic dishonesty and will be prosecuted to the full extent allowed by University policy. Collaboration on assignments, either in-class or out-of-class, is forbidden unless permission to do so is granted by your instructor. For more information on university policies regarding scholastic dishonesty, see University Student Rules .

Copyright policy: All printed materials disseminated in class or on the web are protected by Copyright laws. One xerox copy (or download from the web) is allowed for personal use. Multiple copies or sale of any of these materials is strictly prohibited.


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