MTH 230    Fall 2002

 

Teacher:                    Thomas P. Svobodny

                                 241 MM  775-2379

 

Office Hours:              1730 -- 1830 M W

                                  You don't need an appointment to see me during                                   office hours; but, if you want to see me at other times, it is safer to make an appointment.

   

Math Dept Office:       120MM 775 2785

 

Text:                   Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, by Stewart     

                                    (there is also a Lab Manual).

 

Webpage: http://www.math.wright.edu/MS/AppliedMath/calc2.html

 

Evaluation:                   Exam 1                                       20%

                                    Exam 2                                       20%

Exam 3                                       20%

                                    Final Exam                                  30%

                                    Homework and Labs                  10%

 

                  No make-up exams will be given. Anyone who scores 100% on the final will receive an A for the course, regardless of grade to that point.

 

Weekly structure: HW is due every  Wednesday (check web for assignment [and other announcements]); you will also need to use some of the open lab times Ð or use Mathematica at home or in other labs on campus; as much time as possible will be devoted to Problem Solving (this will NOT mean watching a teacher do ÒexamplesÓ while hoping to replicate them on the test).

 

Course Content Integral calculus. How do you find the area of a plane figure? For some figures this is easy. Others have more complicated geometry. The calculus approach is to approximate any figure with easy ones and get successively better estimates for the area. This leads to the concept of integral. [The basic ideas are at least as old as Archimedes.]

          It turns out that the integral is an "anti-derivative." And that's the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, which is the principle allowing the solution of differential equations.

 

To do well in this course:      Don't read the book without a pencil and paper on hand. Do all of the labs. Do all of the problems on the homework (without using the book).  Do more problems than are on the homework.  Find sources of extra problems. Ask questions in class. Make a list of questions before coming to class. If your questions are not answered in class, come to my office hours. Don't hesitate to approach me about something you do not understand. If you did very well in your previous calculus course, you should expect to spend about 10 hours a week doing problems outside of class; if you did not do so well, you will need to spend much more time doing problems (without consulting the book).