MATH 2250 Spring 2006

Call# 31034

Class meetings

Period 6 (1:25-2:15 P.M.) Monday, Wednesday and Friday , and period 4 (12:30-1:25 P.M.) Thursday, Room 323 Grad Studies

Instructor

Professor Leonard Chastkofsky

Office: 403 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center, (706) 542-2569

Email: lenny@math.uga.edu

Office Hours

MW, 12:15-1:15 P.M. Thu. 1:30-2:30 P.M. In any case, you can always make an appointment for a mutually agreeable time.

Textbook

The required text is University Calculus, by Hass , Weir and Thomas, published by Pearson-Adison-Wesley.

Academic Honesty Statement

The following is the university policy concerning academic integrity:

All students are responsible for maintaining the highest standards of honesty and integrity in every phase of their academic careers. The penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and ignorance is not an acceptable defense.

Syllabus (Chapters 2-5 of the text)

Tangent lines and limits

Continuity

The derivative

Differentiation rules

Maxima and minima

Derivatives of transcendental functions

Implicit differentiation and related rates

Linear approximation

Mean Value Theorem

Curve sketching

Antiderivatives

Indeterminate forms and L’Hopital’s Rule

Integration

Calculators

Scientific calculators are allowed on exams, but not graphing calculators or calculators which can do derivatives. Using such a calculator on a test is considered a violation of academic honesty.

Tests, homework, and grading

There will be 5 tests and a final exam. Homework will be assigned every day. It will be not be collected for grading, but there will be quizzes taken directly from the homework about once a week. Term tests count for 60% of the grade, quizzes 15%, and the final counts for 25%. Your lowest test grade and lowest quiz grade will be dropped.

Letter grades will be given according to the usual standards: 90-100 is an A, 80-89 is a B, etc.