Math 1AA03: Calculus II

Course Information Sheet


Instructors*:

Section 1: Dr. D. Haskell, HH316, ext.27244
Course meeting time: MWR 10:30 - 11:20 ITB/137
E-mail: haskell@math.mcmaster.ca

Section 2: Dr. D. Ghioca, HH 407, ext. 26079
Course meeting time: MWR 13:30-14:20 ITB/137
E-mail: dghioca@mcmaster.ca

Section 3: Dr. O. Unlu, HH 319, ext. 23403
Course meeting time: MW 11:30-12:20, F 13:30-14:20 ITB/137
E--mail: unluo@mcmaster.ca

* Instructors' office hours will be announced in class, and will be posted on the course web page.

 

Teaching Assistants:
Your teaching assistant will announce her/his office location and office hours in the first tutorial; this information will also be posted on the course web page.

 

Textbook:
"Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Fifth Edition", by James Stewart, published by Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2003.

Be careful !!! There are other books that look similar; make sure you have the right version.



Material covered (selection from the following chapters):
Chapter 6: review of definition of the definite integral
Chapter 7: techniques of integration
Chapter 9: Differential equations
Chapter 11: sequences and series
Chapter 10: parametric equations and polar coordinates
Chapter 14: partial derivatives


Homework assignments:
Homework questions from the textbook are indicated on the course calendar. Although homework assignments are not collected and marked for credit, they are an integral part of the course and you should work on them regularly. Practice to write well-organized and readable solutions. In particular, you have to justify main steps in your solution: refer to definitions (do not restate them, just identify), rules and known properties.

Quizzes:
There will be a quiz given in every tutorial except during the weeks of a midterm test. There will be 9 quizzes altogether. Up to 3 quizzes may be missed with no penalty and no excuse required. The remaining 6 (or the best 6) will determine the quiz score. No make-up quizzes will be given and no excuses will be accepted. The material covered for each quiz will be posted on the course calendar. Standard McMaster calculator Casio fx 991MS+ may be used during quizzes.

Tests:
There will be two one-hour tests:
Details (e.g., material that will be covered, test locations, etc.) will be given in class and announced on the course web page.
You must bring your ID to each test.
Standard McMaster calculator Casio fx 991MS+ may be used during tests.
No make-up tests will be given. A student who has an excuse, approved by the Associate Dean's office, for failing to write a test will have their marks reweighted to compensate.

 
Final Examination:
As scheduled by the Registrar.
Details (e.g., material that will be covered, final examination locations, etc.) will be given in class and announced on the course web page.
Standard McMaster calculator, Casio fx 991MS+ may be used during final exam.

 
Course Evaluation:
Quizzes: 10%
Midterm I: 20 %
Midterm II: 20%
Final Exam: 50 %

The instructor reserves the right to change the weight of any portion of this marking scheme. For students in good academic standing, other weights might be considered. In this case, the final mark will be computed using this weighting and the new weighting(s). The highest score for a particular student will be her/his final mark.

At the end of the course the grades may be adjusted but this can only increase your grade and will be done uniformly. We will use the grade equivalence chart published in the Undergraduate Calendar to convert between percentages and letter grades.

 
In case of difficulty/problems:
Contact your instructor or your teaching assistant as soon as possible. Failing that, contact the Associate Dean's Office in GS 116.

 
Policy regarding missed work:
If you have missed work, it is your responsibility to speak with your professor as soon as possible.

During the academic year, you may be ill or suffer other personal difficulties resulting in absence. Following an absence from school, you must bring appropriate documentation to the Office of the Associate Dean of Science (Studies) in GS116 within one week of the original date of the missed work, and fill out the "Information For Missed Term Work Form" on which you indicate which tests, tutorials, etc. you have missed. This includes students who have attended Student Health Services. No backdated medical notes will be accepted. The dates on your documentation must correspond to the course requirements you missed during your absence. This office will then write to your instructor(s) to indicate when an absence should be taken into account. In addition, you must contact your instructor(s) as soon as possible to arrange to complete missed course requirements.

Please note! Once a final examination is written, the final grade cannot be adjusted to take into account any special situation.

For more detail, and to download the "Information For Missed Term Work Form," visit the web page 'Policy For Absence from School Due to Illness or Compassionate Reasons,' located at the address
http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/~associatedean/services/exemptions.html

 

Academic dishonesty:
Academic dishonesty consists of misrepresentation by deception or by other fraudulent means and can result in serious consequences, e.g. the grade of zero on an assignment, loss of credit with a notation on the transcript (notation reads: "Grade of F assigned for academic dishonesty"), and/or suspension or expulsion from the university.

It is your responsibility to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty. For information on the various kinds of academic dishonesty please refer to the Academic Integrity Policy, specifically Appendix 3, located at http://www.mcmaster.ca/senate/academic/ac_integrity.htm

The following illustrates only three forms of academic dishonesty:
Plagiarism, e.g. the submission of work that is not one's own or for which other credit has been obtained.
Improper collaboration in group work.
Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations.

 

Your marks:
At the end of the term, all grades in the course will be posted (by student number). It is your responsibility to check for errors before the day of the final exam, and to report any discrepancies to your instructor or to your TA. No error will be corrected unless reported by this time.