Syllabus for Math 152,
Fall `09

Professor: Thomas Schlumprecht
Office: Milner 118
Officehours: Mo 9:30 - 10:30 PM We 10:20 - 11:30 AM (tentative) 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/math152.html
Telephon (979) 845-8840.


Class hours: 

  152 	510-512 	MW 4:10- 5:25 	HELD 111
Sections: 
                                                                         
 510	 T 12:45-1:35	 BLOC 123   R 12:45-1:35   BLOC 123	  
 511	 T 6:30 -7:20	 BLOC 161   R  6:30-7:20   BLOC 122	  
 512	 T 3:55 -4:45	 CE 223	    R  3:55-4:45   BLOC 126
Teaching Assistant:

Tim Rainone, email: rainone "at" math.tamu.edu

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

Course Description.Credit 4. The course will cover techniques of integration and applications of integration, such as area, volume, arc length, work, hydrostatic force, center of mass and first order differential equations. The course then covers sequences, series and power series. Finally the course covers 3D vectors, dot and cross products and lines and planes. The course meets for three hours per week in lecture with your professor and twice per week in recitation with your teaching assistant (TA). One of your recitation meetings is designed to discuss questions over homework or lecture. The other recitation meets in the computer laboratory using the computer package Maple. The goal of the computer 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 Math 151 or equivalent.




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. Important: You also need to purchase access to the "Online Homework" (see http://www.math.tamu.edu/ehmwk/ ), which can purchase together with your textbook. For all possible options please consult the following homepage: http://www.math.tamu.edu/ehmwk/Math151-152_TextInfo.pdf .

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

 15%          15%           20%          25%            25%  
 Oct.1        Oct.29        Dec.1        Dec.14         
                                         (3:30-5:30 p.m.)
Lab grade will be based on weekly home works given online (go to http://www.math.tamu.edu/ehmwk), Matlab assignments and pop quizzes which might be given in class. Letter grades will be at least as generous as the following (standard)scale: [0, 60)= F; [60, 70) = D; [70, 80) = C; [80, 90)= B; [90,100] = A.
Exams I, II and III are common exams (same exam is given for all sections of Math 152) 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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