Instructor: Billy Jackson

Office: Boyd GRSC, room 524 A

Email: bjackson@math.uga.edu

Office Hours: 1pm-2pm TR, 2:00pm-3:00pm W, or by appointment

Text: Projects are available on the course website.

MATH 2200L Homepage: www.math.uga.edu/calclab

Co-requisite: MATH 2200
Note that 2200L is a co-requisite for 2200. This means that if you drop the lab, then you must drop the class.

Grading Policy: Each of the regular weekly projects will be counted equally, for a total of 85% of the final grade. A final project, which will be handed out at the appropriate time, will be worth the remaining 15% of the grade. There are no exams and no final in this course. No late submissions will be accepted, barring extreme emergencies, which must be documented. If I do not have your lab by the deadline set, I will record a grade of 0 for that lab. I will drop one of the weekly labs (excluding any lab with a grade of 0) or half of the final project, depending on whichever is lower.

Attendance: As this is a lab, the idea of the course is that the student actually be in the lab to participate. This being the case, attendance is mandatory. Students are expected to be present at every lab, barring emergencies, which must be documented. (Note that a slip from the Student Health Center does not suffice.) Note that unexcused absences will adversely affect students’ grades.

Academic Honesty: 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 a defense. I expect the utmost regard for honesty and if I find that this regard is ignored, be assured that I will take the most appropriate and extreme actions. Students should pay particular attention to sections 5 and 7 of the academic honesty statement at www.uga.edu/ovpi/academic_honesty/academic_honesty.htm .
Students are allowed to collaborate on the projects (except the final project), but are required to sign the honesty statement at the end of the lab. Collaboration means discussion, not copying. You may discuss the projects with others, but you must submit the project in your own words and work, not someone else’s.

Course Objective: The objective of this course is to acquaint the student with probably the single most important advance in mathematics within the last 2 decades: the Computer Algebra System (CAS, for short). In particular, we will use the CAS Maple to examine some problems that commonly arise in differential calculus, thereby reinforcing results obtained during the lecture. The development of the computer in recent years has revolutionized the way we think about and do mathematics: many problems that we were unable to do before due to human limitations have actually become tangible due to the impressive computing power of the CAS in general.

Note that this syllabus is tentative. Changes, as necessary, may be made!