Instructor: Dr. Hua Bai ( huabai@math.uga.edu )
Office: Boyd 525
Phone: (706) 542-2555
Course WebPage:
http://www.math.uga.edu/~huabai/Teaching/Spring2007/2200Web.html
Textbook:
Calculus, Early Transcendentals Version, Sixth Edition, C.H. Edwards and D.E. Penney.
Class Time and Location:
Class 12-425: TTh 11:00 am - 12:15 pm, Conner Hall (Bldg 1011), Room 212
Class 62-436: TTh 02:00 pm - 03:15 pm, Boyd Graduate Studies (Bldg 1023), Room 302
Office Hours:
TTh 9:30 am - 11:00 am and 12:30 pm - 02:00 pm. Walk-ins and appointments at other time are welcome.
You are urged to get your questions out of the way by
coming to my office hours. It is impossible to understand everything perfectly in class.
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of (not just a passing grade on) MATH 1113
Announcement:
MATH 2210 will no longer be taught. If you are intending to take more than one
semester of calculus, you should NOW be taking MATH 2250. (The one exception
is economics students who intend to take MATH 2110.)
Here is a list of majors that now require 2250-2260:
engineering, computer science, physics or physics/astronomy, chemistry, geology,
physical geography (meteorology), mathematics, statistics, ecology, genetics,
mathematics education, some science education majors, some economics majors (students
inclined to do graduate work). Effectively, MATH 2200 will remain for most business
majors, biology majors, and pre-pharmacy majors.
Syllabus and Objectives of the Course: Learning Calculus techniques. More specifically, we will learn most of the material
in Chapters 2, 3, 4, and Section 5.2 of the text.
Deviations (minor if any) may be necessary.
GuideLines for Grades:
Grade A: The student has computational mastery of the course, can set up and solve non-routine word problems, and has an understanding
of the theoretical aspects
of the course (e.g., how to apply the Intermediate Value Property or Mean Value Theorem).
Grade B: The student has computational expertise, but may make occasional errors, can set up and solve standard word problems, and, e.g.,
can give an example
of a non-differentiable continuous function.
Grade C: The student demonstrates basic computational skills, has some conceptual understanding of the meaning of the derivative, and can do
most of a routine word problem.
Grade D: The student can do routine calculations, including a moderate chain rule application, can find the equation of the tangent line, but
struggles to set up a routine word problem.
Student Services (Tutoring, Lab, etc.):
http://www.math.uga.edu/undergraduate/student_services.html
Grades: For full credit, full work must be shown.
Homework and Quizzes:
Weekly homework will be
assigned. Quiz on every Thursday except the midterm weeks.
Problems on the quizzes will be
chosen
similar to the problems in homework.
You may consult
your homework during the quizzes.
It is very important that you do all the homework.
Past experience shows that students who do not take homework seriously do poorly
on the exams and most of them fail.
Exams and Dates:
Closed book with NO calculators allowed . You may use one page of notes (it is a useful preparation for the exam).
First
midterm (tentative): Feb. 15 (Thur.)
Second
midterm (tentative): Mar. 29 (Thur.)
Final Exam (
scheduled by the university): Class 12-425: May 08 (Tue.), 12:00-3:00 pm.
Class 62-436: May 08 (Tue.), 03:30-6:30 pm.
Make-up Quizzes and Exams: There will be no make-up quizzes or exams. I will drop one of your lowest scores on quizzes.
Class Attendance and Participation are very important in
this class.
I will randomly take attendance and reserve the right to
withdraw
you
from the class
if you miss too many classes and/or too much work--this
will
save you from frustrations later on in the course,
as well as save
other
students from being held back because of your missing classes/work.
In
order
to protect class from distraction, coming-later-for and
leaving-early-from classes are discouraged.
Tell me in advance if you must
come late or
leave early.
Collaboration and Academic Honesty: You are strongly
encouraged to form study groups to work on
your homework and discuss
the material for
the course. However, you must write up your own homework. Above
all,
UGA Academic Honesty Policy applies — See the web site
http://www.uga.edu/ovpi/honesty/acadhon.htm.
Here are some quotes from the UGA Academic Honesty Policy:
"Every
student has an obligation to be informed concerning the terms of this
policy.
Accordingly, lack of knowledge of the provisions of this policy
is not an acceptable defense
to a charge of violating this
policy."
"Any member of the University
Community with direct personal knowledge of the facts related to
an alleged
violation of Section 5 of this policy has a responsibility to the
entire
University Community to file a charge."
Calendar:
http://www.bulletin.uga.edu/bulletin/univ/Calendar.html .
Important dates: Midpoint Withdrawal Deadline (Mar. 1, Th); Spring Break (Mar. 12-16, M-F); Classes End (Apr. 30, M)