MATH 2200L  Differential  Calculus Lab (spring 2005)

 

Course: MATH 2200L                                     Room: GSRC 1023-0220

Call:     30-174                                                 Time:  11:15A-12:05P Friday

Instructor:     Yu, Lirong 

Office:          643   Boyd Graduate Studies Bldg            Email: yu@math.uga.edu 

Office hours: 2:30-3:30    MW or by appointment     Phone: (706) 542 5139

Course description.

The calculus labs have been designed to give you an opportunity to investigate math problems in greater detail than in the calculus books. You will work on projects and write reports on them with the aid of Maple, a computer algebra system.

Materials.

All the material can be found on course web site: http://www.math.uga.edu/calclab2200/

Projects                                                                       class date                     due date

Project 1          Welcome to Maple I and II                   Jan 13, 20                    Jan 27

Project 2          Introduction to Limits                            Jan 27, Feb 3               Feb 10

Project 3          Tangent Lines                                       Feb 10, 17                   Feb 24

Project 4          Newton’s Method                                Feb24, Mar 3, 10         Mar 24

Project 5          Closest Point                                        Mar 24, 31 April 7      April 14

Project 6          Powerline Through the Park                  April 14, 21, 28            April 28

Course grading

Grades will be based on a student’s performance in the 6 projects and one quiz, the quiz has the same weight to one project. The quiz will be given at beginning of one class; there is no notice before the quiz. The score needed to get the various grades are: A: 90%-100%; B: 80%-90%; C: 70%-80%; D: 60%-70%; F: 50%-60%

Attendance policy

A student with 5 excused or unexcused absences will be withdrawn from the lab before the midterm withdraw deadline, after that, I will assign WF for the final grade.

Withdrawal policy

If a student withdraws from a lab, the student must withdraw from the regular course-math2200. Students will initiate their own withdrawals on OASIS.

Additional information

1. Instructor of this lab is not supposed to teach you how to work with problems and the projects, but will be available to help you with Maple as you work. You are encouraged to collaborate with each other--form a small group of two or three people. The projects can be done with your team work. However the reports must be written by yourself.

2. 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.

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

Each student must sign her/his report after the academic honesty statement at the end of the report. If this statement or signature is missing, then the report will not be graded and will be returned to the student.

2. You can redo you project, you must turn in your redo project in a week after you get your graded one. We will take average of the both.

3. All students’ evaluation will be done on-line during the last two weeks of this semester. 4. This course syllabus provides a general plan for the course; deviation may be necessary.