Differential Calculus Lab

 

Course:            MATH 2200L #80-171

Instructor:       Adam C. Fletcher

Class Time:     11:00-12:15 Thursdays in Boyd 220

Office Hours:  TBA in Boyd 427J

Contact info:   542-2722 // fletcher@math.uga.edu

Website:          http://www.math.uga.edu/~fletcher

 

Course Objective:  This course will introduce the student to the Computer Algebra System (CAS) called MAPLE in order to supplement material learned in MATH 2200, Differential Calculus.

 

**Please note that 2200L is a co-requisite for 2200.  This means if a student were to drop 2200L, then s/he must drop 2200.  The student must do so through OASIS, as this drop is not done automatically.**

 

Materials:  The student will attend class each week with a floppy disk or other storage device on which to save his/her work.  No work may be saved to the desktop of the computer in your workstation.  If work is saved to the desktop and not deleted promptly, under the university academic honesty policy, the student involved may be charged with cheating.  The computers in the lab are equipped with the latest version of the MAPLE software, and the lab manual for this course is free and available online at

http://www.math.uga.edu/calclab/calclab2200.

 

 

Course Schedule: 

 

Grading:  Notice that the student will be expected to participate in seven labs and two quizzes over the course of the semester.  Some of the labs will be split into smaller parts.  Each of these parts will be turned in at the beginning of the class period they are due.  Labs turned in at the end of class are considered late, and late labs will not be accepted, except in extenuating circumstances.  Each of the nine assignments will be graded equally, out of 20, and each of the quizzes will be out of ten, resulting in a semester total of 200.  The assignments enclosed in parentheses in the course schedule are extra credit, and will be graded out of 10. 

            The breakdown of grades will be taken from the total points earned in class, denoted “x” below, and is given as follows:

A: x >= 180     B: 160 <= x < 180       C: 140 <= x < 160

D:  120 <= x < 140     F: x < 120

Notice that no rounding will occur.  That is, if by some strange circumstance, a student earns a final grade of 159.99, that student will have earned a C for the course.

 

Cheating:  The instructor will adhere to all aspects of the university academic honesty policy, as will each student.  The policy may be found at

www.uga.edu/ovpi/academic_honesty/culture_honesty.htm.

Students are encouraged to work together on projects, but each student must write his or her own lab, in his/her own words.  The university honesty statement is attached to the bottom of each lab in the manual, and should be cut and pasted onto each student’s lab report, and then signed.  As stated above, saving work to the desktop also falls under this policy.

 

Attendance:  As an extension of the 2200 course, and as a lab experience, it is important that the student participate in classes.  Therefore, attendance is mandatory, and will be taken in each class.  Extenuating circumstances may arise, but should be brought to the attention of the instructor beforehand, if possible.  Please note that a time-stamped excuse from the University Health Center will not necessarily count as an excused absence.

 

Contract:  This syllabus stands as a contract between the instructor and the student.  By distributing this syllabus, the instructor agrees to abide by it.  By reading this syllabus, the student agrees to abide by it.  At some point in the semester, circumstances may require slight changes to the syllabus.  If this occurs, all students will be notified in class.