MATH 2311 - Intermediate Calculus II

MATH 2311 - Intermediate Calculus II (Winter 2008)

last-updated-15-Apr-2008

Instructor		James Muir, McNally North Wing (MN) 101, 420-5788 (office phone), jamuir at cs dot smu dot ca
lectures		Section A, 8:30am - 9:45am Tuesday & Thursday in Loyola Academic Complex (LA) 283, Jan 7 - April 8 Section B, 11:30am - 12:45pm Monday & Wednesday in McNally North (MN) 223, Jan 7 - April 8
recitations		Section RA [Muir], 10:00am - 11:15am Tuesday in ~~McNally East Wing (ME) 111~~ LA 297 Section RB [Singh], 10:00am - 11:15am Wednesday in McNally East Wing (ME) 105 Section RC [Amleh], 10:00am - 11:15pm Thursday in ~~McNally East Wing (ME) 111~~ LA 297
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Announcements ------------- *[15 April] The exams have been marked and final grades have been submitted. As usual, a list of all the course marks (without any identifying information) is provided below. Note that the row number you previously used to identify your course marks may have changed. A summary of the final exam marks can also be found below. The final exam was marked out of 130 points rather than 140. The two top exam scores were 150 (a perfect score!) and 148. *[4 April] The marks and solutions for Quiz 10 have been posted. Please check that your marks from over the semester have been recorded correctly. Note that I will have **extended office hours next week**: Mon (7 April) 1-5pm, Tues (8 April) 1-5pm, Wed (9 April) 1-5pm. If you are not able to attend these office hours, then please email me for an appointment. *[3 April] Solutions to Problem Set 11 have been posted. I have also posted some information about the final exam. *[2 April] Problem Set 11 has been posted. *[2 April] The marks and solutions for Quiz 9 have been posted. *[28 Mar] We have a new room for the final exam: LA 170. The time and date are the same: Thursday, 10 April, 9am-12pm. *[26 Mar] Problem Set 10 has been posted. *[25 Mar] The marks and solutions for Quiz 8 have been posted. *[20 Mar] Problem Set 9 has been posted. *[17 Mar] The marks for Quiz 7 have been posted. *[16 Mar] Solutions to Quiz 7 have been posted. *[13 Mar] Solutions to some of the problems from Problem Set 8 have been posted. *[12 Mar] Problem Set 8 has been posted. *[11 Mar] The marks for Quiz 6 and solutions for Quiz 6 have been posted. *[8 Mar] The record of course marks below has been updated with the midterm scores. Your midterm will be returned to you during your recitation; alternately, you may drop by my office during my office hours Monday & Tuesday and collect your midterm then. Note that solutions to the midterm have been posted. *[5 Mar] Problem Set 7 has been posted. *[2 Mar] The final exam schedule has been posted. Our exam is Thursday, 10 April at 9am in SB 255. Your last lecture will be either Monday, 7 April or Tuesday, 8 April, depending on which lecture section you attend. *[29 Feb] Next week's quiz will cover Problem Set 6 (which all of you have already completed in preparation for the midterm). You can skip exercises 27 and 29 from Section 14.7, as we will not cover that topic. *[27 Feb] Please consider participating in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Many of you will receive a request to do so by email in the next few days. Your feedback can help shape SMU's Academic Plan, so don't pass up this opportunity. *[26 Feb] We have an additional classroom in which to write the midterm, LA 176. You may write in either LA 176 or SB 255. *[22 Feb] The marks for Quiz 5 have been posted. Remember that there is no quiz during the week of 25-28 Feb, but we will still hold recitations. In the recitation, Quiz 5 will be returned to you and you may obtain help on the problem set or any other material covered by the midterm. *[14 Feb] Problem Set 6 has been posted, and so have solutions to Quiz 5. Note that the midterm will cover the material from problem sets one to six. If you have difficulty with Problem Set 6 (or any of the problems from past problem sets), then you should drop by my office for help. Note also that you will be allowed to bring into the midterm one side of an 8.5x11 sheet of paper with whatever formulas, equations, notes, etc. written on it that you wish. Enjoy your break! *[13 Feb] A solution to exercise 66 from section 14.3 has been posted. *[12 Feb] The marks for Quiz 4 have been posted. Also, solutions for quizzes one to four have been posted. *[7 Feb] Problem Set 5 has been posted. Also, the room for our midterm has been changed. We will now write in the Sobey Building, Xerox Theatre (Room 255). *[5 Feb] The marks for Quiz 3 have been posted. Also, the time and room for our midterm has been set: Thurs, 28 Feb, 6:30pm - 8:30pm, Burke Building, Theatre B. *[31 Jan] Problem Set 4 has been posted. *[28 Jan] The marks for Quiz 2 have been posted. *[27 Jan] Some of the questions on Problem Set 3 are quite challenging. I've posted solutions to two of those problems below in case you need help. *[24 Jan] Problem Set 3 has been posted. *[22 Jan] The marks for Quiz 1 have been posted. *[21 Jan] There is a new classroom for the Tuesday and Thursday recitations (i.e. RECIT A and RECIT C). It is LA 297. Note also that this week's quiz (i.e. Quiz 2), will cover only Section 2.3 (dot products) and not Section 2.4 (cross products). *[16 Jan] Problem Set 2 has been posted. *[15 Jan] I have moved my office hours to Mon & Tues 2:30pm-5:30pm. *[11 Jan] IBM is looking to hire Math, CS, Physics and Engineering Students. If you are interested, then you should attended their campus visit at Dalhousie. See the flyer posted below. *[10 Jan] Problem Set 1 has been posted. To prepare for the first quiz, I recommend you complete those problems. *[9 Jan] Correction: the instructor for the Wednesday recitation is Y.P. Singh, and the instructor for the Thursday recitation is Amal Amleh. I am doing the Tuesday recitation. *[8 Jan] The room for the MW lecture section has been set. It is MN 223. Note that there are no recitations this week. Note also that I will be instructing only the Tuesday Recitation.

Course Information Sheet

Here is the course information sheet.

Course description (from the University Calendar)

Limits and continuity of functions of several variables, partial derivatives, and the chain rule, directional derivatives and gradient vector, the total differential, tangent planes and normals to a surface, higher order partial derivatives, extrema of functions of two variables. The double integrals, iterated integrals, double integrals in polar coordinates, applications of double integrals, the triple integral, triple integrals in cylindrical and spherical coordinates, applications of triple integrals, vector fields, divergence and curl of vector fields, line integrals, path-independent line integrals. Green's theorem, Stokes' theorem, and the divergence theorem.

Classes 3 hours plus recitation 1.5 hours a week. 1 semester.

Prerequisites

MATH 2310 (Intermediate Cal I), or both MATH 1212 (Cal II for Engineers) and MATH 2301 (Linear Algebra for Engineers).

Text (Required)

The required text is Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Fifth Edition by James Stewart (please note that we will be using the Fifth Edition).

Evaluation

Your final mark will be computed using the following formula:

20% Quizzes  (held during recitations)
30% Midterm  (one, evening of 28 Feb)
50% Exam  (3-hours, scheduled by the University)

Marks

Here is a text file containing all the course marks recorded so far. Note that it does not contain any identifying information. The rows are sorted sorted according to the score on Quiz 1. To determine the row which contains your marks, you must already know your score on Quiz 1.

Here are some further details about how final marks are tabulated.

Each quiz, except for quiz 3, was marked out of 20.  Your mark on quiz 3 was converted to 
a mark out of 20 like so:  q3 = x/24*20.

Suppose your quiz marks are q1,q2,...,q10, your midterm mark is m and your exam mark is f. 

Your overall quiz mark is Q=(SUM(q1,q2,...,q10)-MIN(q1,q2,...,q10))/(20*9)
(i.e. your worst quiz mark is thrown out.)
The midterm was marked out of 100.  Let M=m/100.
The exam was marked out of 130.  Let F=f/130.

Your final mark in the course is 
        MAX(20*Q+30*M+50*F, 20*Q+10*M+70*F)
This mark is converted into a letter grade.

Midterm

Here is the date, time and location of the midterm:

        Thursday, 28 February
        Sobey Building, Room 255 and Loyola Building, Room 176
        6:30pm - 8:30pm

The midterm will cover the material on problem sets 1,2,3,4,5,6.

You will be allowed to bring into the midterm one side of an 8.5x11 sheet of paper containing whatever notes, formulas, etc. you wish. You will also be allowed to use a non-programmable calculator (i.e. graphing calculators, cellphone calculators and so on are not allowed). You are responsible for knowing definitions (e.g. if I ask you to compute the angle between two vectors, then you need to know the definition of "the angle between vectors").

Here is a summary of the midterm scores.

Here are solutions to the midterm.

Final Exam

Here is the date, time and location of the final exam:

        Thursday, 10 April
        Loyola Building, Room 170
        9:00am - 12:00pm

Note that your last lecture will be on either Monday, 7 April or Tuesday, 8 April depending on which lecture section you attend.

The final exam will cover the material on problem sets 1-6 and 7-11. There will be a slightly greater emphasis on problem sets 7-11: roughly 65% of the exam will test material from problem sets 7-11, and 35% will test material from the earlier problem sets.

You will be allowed to bring into the final exam a double sided 8.5x11 sheet of paper containing whatever notes, formulas, etc. you wish (i.e. you are allowed to write notes on both sides of this sheet). You will also be allowed to use a non-programmable calculator (i.e. graphing calculators, cellphone calculators and so on are not allowed). You are responsible for knowing definitions (e.g. if I ask you to compute the angle between two vectors, then you need to know the definition of "the angle between vectors").

Here is a summary of the final exam scores.

Problem Sets

Completing the following problem sets will help prepare you for the quizzes.

Problem Set 1
Problem Set 2
Problem Set 3     Solutions to Problem Set 3
Problem Set 4
Problem Set 5     Solutions to Problem Set 5
Problem Set 6 (you can skip ex. 27, 29 from Section 14.7)
Problem Set 7 (there are quite a few exercises listed on Problem Set 7. If you don't have time to complete all of them, then I suggest you try to complete every second one.)
Problem Set 8     Solutions to Problem Set 8
Problem Set 9
Problem Set 10
Problem Set 11     Solutions to Problem Set 11

Quizzes

Here are the solutions to each quiz.

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Quiz 1
Quiz 2
Quiz 3
Quiz 4
Quiz 5
Quiz 6
Quiz 7
Quiz 8
Quiz 9
Quiz 10

IBM Campus Visit

Do you want a job with IBM? Here is an invitation to attend an information session at Dalhousie on 22 January.

Schedule

Week 1: 7 Jan - 11 Jan Lectures, No Recitations
Week 2: 14 Jan - 18 Jan Lectures, Recitations [Muir]
Week 3: 21 Jan - 25 Jan Lectures, Recitations [Amleh]
Week 4: 28 Jan - 1 Feb Lectures, Recitations [Singh]
Week 5: 4 Feb - 8 Feb Lectures, Recitations [Muir]
Week 6: 11 Feb - 15 Feb Lectures, Recitations [Amleh]
Week 7: 18 Feb - 22 Feb Winter Break
Week 8: 25 Feb - 29 Feb Lectures, No Recitations, Midterm evening of 28 Feb
Week 9: 3 Mar - 7 Mar Lectures, Recitations [Singh]
Week 10: 10 Mar - 14 Mar Lectures, Recitation [Muir], Last day to withdraw without academic penalty is 14 Mar
Week 11: 17 Mar - 21 Mar Lectures, Recitations [Amleh]
Week 12: 24 Mar - 28 Mar Lectures, Recitations [Singh]
Week 13: 31 Mar - 4 Apr Lectures, Recitations [Muir]
Week 14: 7 Apr - 8 Apr Lectures, No Recitation

Policies

This web page is the primary source for announcements and materials related to this course. Please check it regularly.
Students are expected to be familiar with the university policy on Academic Integrity and Student Responsibility found in the 2007-2008 University Calendar (pp. 22--30). There is to be no talking or joint work during quizzes, midterms or exams, unless such activity is explicitly allowed by the instructor. Copying work from another student is always prohibited and offenders will be subject to academic discipline. Note that the penalties for academic offences are quite serious (e.g., a failing grade in the course, required withdrawal for an academic term or year, expulsion from the University, loss of scholarships and bursaries).
Students who need support to help lessen the impact of a disability should contact The Atlantic Centre for Students with Disabilities at the beginning of the term.
Each quiz is mandatory. Any missed quiz will receive a score of zero, unless a proper medical or compassionate excuse is provided. Do not make travel plans that conflict with quiz times.

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