MTH 241 (Spring 2008): College Calculus III (section F)


Instructor: Hanfeng Li

Office: 104 Mathematics Building.     Phone: 645-6284 ext. 126.

Office Hours: M 3-4pm, F 11-12am, or by appointment.

Email: hfli@math.buffalo.edu

Course Page: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~hfli/teaching/241/241spring08.html

Lectures: MWF 1:00-1:50pm               
Room:
216 NSC.

Textbook: Stewart, Multivariable Calculus (Early Transcendentals, UB customized 6th edition).

TA's Labs (Starting from January 23)
Section F1: F 2:00-2:50pm,  103 Talbrt Hall.
Section F2: W  2:00-2:50pm, 111 Talbrt Hall.
TA
Guenbo Hwang ghwang@buffalo.edu

Math Help Center
Graduate students will be at Room 110 of the mathematics building to answer any math questions you might have. The room opens on Monday, January 28. See here for hours and more info.

Course Description
This is the last part of a 3-semester sequence in calculus for students of mathematics, natural science and engineering. We shall cover methods of partial derivatives and multiple integrals.

Text To Be Covered (Outline)
Chapter 12: 1-6.       Chapter 13: 1-4.      Chapter 14: 1-8.     Chapter 15: 1-8.      Chapter 16: 1-9.

Lecture schedule

Prerequisite
MTH 142 with grade C or higher.

Homework
Homework will be assigned every Friday. They won't be collected. As they are all from the odd numbered problems on the textbook, the solution is available in the textbook.

Homework Assignments

Exams
10-minute in-lab quizzes will be given in almost every lab section, except during the weeks of term tests and the second last week. The quiz problems are selected from the homework. There will be totally 10 quizzes (see the Lecture Schedule for time).

There will be three 50-min in-lecture term tests:
Term Test 1: Monday, February 18.
Term Test 2: Monday, March 31.
Term Test 3: Monday, April 28.
Most of the term test problems are similar to those in the homework.

No final exam. Calculators are not allowed in quizzes and term tests.

Late Policy
No make-up quizzes.

Grading Policy
The 2 lowest quiz grades will be dropped. In other words, we shall count only your best 8 quizzes.

Your final grade will be determined by:
Quizzes: 30%      The lowest grade term test: 10%      The 2 higher grades term tests: 30%

Disabilities
If you have a diagnosed disability (physical, learning or psychological) which will make it difficult to carry out the course work as outlined, or requires accomodations such as recruiting note takers, readers, or extended time on exams and/or assignment, please advise me during the first two weeks of the course so we may review possible arrangements for reasonable accomodations.

Important Dates
Friday, Jan 25         Last day to drop the course - no record appears on transcript.
Friday, Jan 25         Last day to file "Petition to make up an Incomplete" with the math department.
Friday, Mar 28        Last day to RESIGN from the course - an "R" appears on transcript.

Making Up Incompletes
To make up an Incomplete in a math course you must:

1) Not re-register for the course -- you are making up an incomplete in your original course.

2) Appear in person at the Mathematics Building, Room 244, ask for Rosemarie Marciniak and ask her to initiate an incomplete petition form for you.

3) Sign the petition.

4) a) If your original instructor determined that the work was to be completed with him/her, take the approved petition form to your original instructor for signature.
b) If your original instructor determined that the work was to be completed by repeating the course, take the approved petition form to me for signature.

5. Return the petition form to Rosemarie Marciniak in Rm. 244 Math Bldg. by the last day of add/drop - Friday, January 25.

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