MATH 2200L Differential Calculus Lab (fall 2006)

 

Course:            MATH 2200L                                      Room: GSRC 1023-0220

Call:                 91-460                                                 Time:  12:20P-01:10P W

Instructor:         Yu, Lirong 

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

Office hours:     9:30A-10:30A  MTW                           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 sitehttp://www.math.uga.edu/calclab/calclab2200/

Projects                                                                       class dates                                due date

Project 1          Welcome to Maple I and II                  Aug 16, 23, 30                         Sep 6  

Project 2          Definition of Derivative                          Sep 6                                       Sep 13

Project 3          Tangent Lines                                       Sep 13, 20                               Sep 27

Project 4          Home Mortgages                                  Sep 27, Oct 4                          Oct.11

Project 5          New Newton’s Method                        Oct 11, Oct 18, and Oct 25     Nov 1

Project 6          Power line through the park                  Nov 1, Nov 8                           Nov 15

Project 7          The bungee Jump                                  Nov 15, Nov 22                       Nov 29

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: 59% and under

Attendance policy

Students with more than 3 unexcused absences will have their grades lowered by one letter. A student with 5 excused or unexcused absences will be withdrawn from the lab before the midterm withdraw deadline, after that, I will assign WF for the final grade.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. 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 you.

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/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. Late project will be given half credit.

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.