Instructor: John Perry
Office: Southern Hall, 310
Office Hours:MWF 2-3p; TTh 89a
Office Phone: 601⋅266⋅4293
Email: john.perry@usm.edu
Instructor's web page: http://www.math.usm.edu/perry/
Class web page: http://www.math.usm.edu/perry/mat168fa10/
Class meeting time and location: MWF 11-11⋅50, SH 304
Text: Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals, by Stewart, Thomson Brooks-Cole, 2007.
Course
Description: Bulletin description:
Definite and indefinite integrals, integration techniques, application of integrals,
improper integrals and L'Hôpital's Rule.
I will also throw in some "value-added" material, such as Newton's Method and the Sage computer algebra system.
(We aim to cover chapters 5-7, with bits of 3 and 4 that you may not have seen already.)
Prerequisite: MAT 167 (Calculus I).
Grading: The semester grade will be determined by a weighted average, according to the weights listed below. At any point during the semester, you may determine your standing by computing your grade. This can be done by multiplying the average for each category by the category's weight, then adding the product in each category. See me if you would like this shown to you.
| Tests | 40% of total |
| Homework Quizzes | 20% of total |
| Attendance | 10% of total |
| Final Exam | 30% of total |
Grades are awarded according to the following tableaux:
| 100-90 A | 89.99-80 B | 79.99-70 C | 69.99-60 D | 59.99-0 F |
There is no curve.
Attendance: I give a grade for your attendance (see the grading policy). Missing class, or reporting to class late, directly affects your grade. Carefully read the college policy on attendance. Students are responsible for all material missed when absent from class.
Makeup work: I do not give makeup tests/quizzes/etc. without an excused absence. If you must miss class, then you must also produce documentation of the reason for your absence. If you were sick, you can show me the receipt from the hospital or doctor; if you had a sports event, you can show me the schedule; if someone died, you can show me an obituary notice; if the tire on your car blew out, you can show me the receipt from the mechanic.
Homework: I expect you to do the homework. If you do not do the homework, you will probably fail this course. Unfortunately, I do not have time to check every homework problem, and that seems to frustrate students anyway: they get a lot of answers wrong the first time, and they feel overwhelmed and don't know how to use the homework to study for the final exam. Thus, I will give homework quizzes once or twice a week.
Tutoring and study groups: I encourage you to work together on homework assignments, to look at each other's solutions, and to explain answers to each other. This is not the same thing as copying each other's homework. You take the tests alone and without help, so if you cannot explain to your tutor, classmate, or teacher how to solve the problem, then you have not learned how to solve it, then you need to study it more (perhaps by visiting me, the professor).
Instructor's philosophy of the instruction:
I want you to pass this course. You can learn this material,
and I am happy to assist any student who genuinely needs help.
That said, you are the primary agent of your learning.
I cannot learn the material for you; I already learned it many, many years ago.
It required a lot of work; I had to make a lot of sacrifices in order to succeed at it;
and sometimes it was difficult enough that I needed help from other people.
Today I am a professor of mathematics. If I can learn it, you can, too.
Final Exam: Wednesday 8 December 2010, 10⋅45a-1⋅15p
My beef with mobile phones
Mobile phones are not merely useful for business, they are by now necessary. For personal use, however, they have become a curse on the human race. We lived for thousands of years without them and never once felt a pressing need to interrupt a class, worship service, or business meeting so as to remind someone of our undying love.
Imagine: lovers once waited days or even weeks before a letter arrived from one's beloved. They caressed the paper in their hands, breathed the aroma of a drop of perfume left on the page, glanced at the postmark, and anguished over why the Post Office took so long to deliver such a precious package. They waited days or even weeks to send and receive replies — and they only lived down the street from each other!
We once considered it a vice to answer quickly! After all, an intelligent answer requires one to think before speaking. By contrast, modernity considers a silent pause following a question to be a mark of ignorance, dishonesty, even mental deficiency. As the enemy of elegant speech and intelligent conversation, mobile phones, popular music, and television have contributed more to the decline of discretion, intimacy, and privacy than any common gossip, media outlet, or government surveillance program could hope to do.
Please, turn off your phone before entering the classroom. Text messaging, wearing an earpiece, etc. are prohibited and will lead to expulsion.
Note: The last day to drop a full-semester course without academic penalty is Wednesday, 29 September, 2010.
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