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A fat mathematician and a fat physicist agree to a psychological experiment. The mathematician is put in a chair in a large empty room and a fork and a fine slice of cheese cake is placed on a table at the other end of the room. The fat psychologist explains, "You are to remain in your chair. Every five minutes, I will move your chair to a position halfway between its current location and the cheese cake on the table."
The mathematician looks at the psychologist in disgust. "What? I'm not going to go through this. You know I'll never reach the table!" And he gets up and storms out.
The psychologist makes a note on his clipboard and ushers the physicist in. He explains the situation, and the physicist's eyes light up and he starts drooling. The psychologist is a bit confused. "Don't you realize that you'll never reach the cake?" The physicist smiles and replied, "Of course! But I'll get close enough for all practical purposes!"

MATH 122 STUFF

1. Texts by Goldstein, Lay, & Sneider 8th Edition.

   • A. Calculus and its Applications
   • B. Linear mathematics and its Applications

    

2. Homework

   • Do every odd numbered problem in the text. Homework will not be collected or graded.

    

3. Approximate Order of investigation by week

   • Week 1: Book A: 9.1 & 9.2
   • Week 2: Book A: 9.2 & 9.3
   • Week 3: Book A: 9.4, 9.5, 10.1
   • Week 4: Book A: 10.2
   • Week 5: Book A: 10.3 - 10.5
   • Week 6: Book A: 7.1 - 7.3
   • Week 7: Book A: 7.4 - 7.6
   • Week 8: Book A: 7.6
   • Week 9: Book B: Chapter 1
   • Week 10: Book B: Chapter 2
   • Week 11: Book B: Chapter 3
   • unaccounted time is for possible delays

    

4. Test dates

   • All dates are approximate. Problems on all exams will be similar to homework problems, examples I present in class, and/or Examples given in the textbook. All exams are culminative. The Final Exam is required - bring ID's
   • Test 1 - Week 4 (9.1 - 9.5, 10.1, 10.2)
   • Test 2 - Week 8 (10.3 - 10.5, 7.1 -7.6)
   • Test 3 - Week 12 (Textbook B)
   • Our Final Exam time/date will be determined by scheduling for the University Final Exam Period : Thurs, May 8 - Thurs, May 15 - expect the worst.

    

5. Determination of course grade

   • There will be no make-up exams for any reason. If you missed it, it is a 0. If I am given 7 days warning, I will give any pre-final tests at a time, to be arranged by mutual agreement , prior to the time of the class test.
   • Your course grade is determined by your term exam scores and your final exam score. (The the best two of the three term exams are each worth 25% of your course grade and the final exam is worth 50% of your course grade) OR (The three term exams are each worth 20% of your course grade and the final exam is worth 40% of your course grade)
   • The Final Exam is required, culminative, and your ID is required to take it.
   • The grade of Incomplete can only be awarded:
   • after the final date for resignation and before classes end
   • to a student who does not have a failing average on the TOTAL of the pre-final tests taken up to the time of request.

    

6. Help?

   • office hours this term
   • contact Dr. Williams
   • My Teaching Assistant will announce 2 hours of office hours in recitation.
   • Free help from Math Grad students is available 10am-2 pm Monday to Friday in the Math lab in Diefendorff 308
   • There is are other places for free help around the university - I'll announce them when I learn of them.
   • A list of tutors for hire can be found in the main Mathematics Department on the first floor of Diefendorf.

    

7. Generally important dates this term

   • Recitations will begin the 2nd week of class.
   • Friday, January 31 Last day to drop the course--no record appears on transcript
   • Friday, January 31 Last day to file 'Petition to make up an incomplete' with the Department for Sp 97'
   • Friday, March 14 Last day to resign from the course-- an 'R' appears on transcript (1st Semester undergraduates have an extended deadline through their advisor)
   • Spring Break is March 17-23
   • Classes end Monday, May 5
   • University Final Exam Period : Thurs, May 8 - Thurs, May 15 - Our Final Exam time/date will be determined by scheduling - expect the worst.

    

8. Additional questions? Read the above!

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PHONE: (716) 829-2144 ext. 156

OFFICE: 331 DIEFENDORFF

OFFICE HOURS FALL 97: FRIDAYS 3PM TO 4:40PM - don't phone any other time, I ain't there.

email: sww@acsu.buffalo.edu (I read it daily)

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Dr. Scott W. Williams

Professor of Mathematics

State University of New York at Buffalo

Buffalo NY 14214 USA

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