Instructor:
Office: Room #427C Boyd GSRC
Office
Hour:
on Mondays and
Thursdays
or by appointment
Telephone: 542-2641
E-mail: dpark@math.uga.edu
Objectives of the Course:
Calculus Lab has been designed to give you an
opportunity to investigate calculus problems in greater depth than is possible
in a lecture course using a computer algebra system, called Maple. This course
will help you to understand the concepts and methods in calculus that you are
studying in your calculus lecture course. You can solve equations, graph
functions, and simplify algebraic formulas very easily and fast and so on,
using Maple. Some of the topics of the lab may not be covered in your lecture
course. In addition, the timing of the topics that are covered in both courses
may not be coordinated.
Lab Manual:
Mathematics 2200L, Differential Calculus Lab from
the site
http://www.math.uga.edu/calclab/calclab2200/
Co-requisite:
Math
2200L is a co-requisite for Math 2200. If you withdraw from Math 2200L, you must also withdraw
from Math 2200.
Projects:
Projects are due
at the beginning of the class on the dates that will be announced in class.
The topics are:
Project 1: Welcome to Maple I
Project 2: Welcome to Maple II
Project 3: Limits and Spreadsheets
Project 4: Tangent Lines
Project 5: New
Project 6: Closest Point
Project 7: Analysis of a Graph
Format:
You may collaborate with other students while
working on projects. However, you must
write each project by yourself; to copy someone else’s report constitutes
plagiarism, which has severe consequences. 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. At the end
of each project, you must include a signed Academic Honesty Statement listing
the students you worked with. I follow all the rules in the Catalog,
including those pertaining to grades and academic honesty (http://www.uga.edu/ovpi/academic_honesty/culture_honesty.htm),
which you will find at the end of each project.
1.
Reports should be neat and professional (I will not allow any kinds of handwriting on the
report except your signature), written
so as to communicate mathematics with a fellow student. Explain every step with complete sentences what you are going to do
before Maple syntaxes. Your explanation should be reasonable and make sense.
2.
You must work every project, and turn in a satisfactory report for each
one.
3.
You should be persistent, not quitting until you obtain good results.
4.
You should practice actively in class. In particular, you must attend
class regularly and work on the lab during the entire class period.
Grading:
I will grade each project out of 20 points and count off your grade by 3 points if you
don’t attach a signed Academic Honesty Statement. For a late report which will be submitted before the following class
from its due date, I will count off your grade by 5 points. Possibly, there
will be a Quiz on the final date.
There is no final examination in this course. Your course grade will depend
solely upon your project report grades and exercises (including quizzes) worked
in class. Students who participate actively and complete every project can
expect to receive an A or B. I will correct and return each project to you at
the following class meeting if possible. There
will be no chance to revise or redo each project. The distribution of the
final grade is the following: A
>= 90%, 80% <= B < 90%, 70%
<= C < 80%, 60% <= D < 70% and F < 60%.
Attendance:
Full participation in the course is required. A student may miss two or fewer
classes without penalty. You must keep
this opportunity for an emergency (health or family issues). A student who
misses three or more classes will have his/her grade lowered by one letter
grade or more. If you leave the class early without any excuses, your
attendance will be ignored for the class. I
will not allow you to make up a class that you miss. I will give you “F” if you miss five classes or more including
emergencies.