Integral Calculus

Department of Mathematical Sciences
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
MA 1022, Integral Calculus, Term A03
Section: A05
Instructor:
B. Doytchinov
Office: SH105D
Office hours:
Tu 10:00am-12:00pm
Th 10:00am-12:00pm
e-mail:bogdand@wpi.edu
Teaching Assistant:
Shawn Hallinan
Office: SH204
Office hours:
We 3:00-4:00pm
Fr 2:00-3:00pm
e-mail: shawnhal@wpi.edu
Instructor's Associates:
Jane Bouchard, e-mail:bouchard@wpi.edu
Dina Solitro, e-mail:dsolitro@wpi.edu
Office: SH205
Office hours:
TBA

Remark:
The TA conduct your confrence sessions, on Fridays, 10:00am. He also holds office hours when you can come and ask for help.
The IAs conduct the labs for the course. Their office hours are not restricted to lab questions - any calculus questions can be brought to them.

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Varberg, Purcell, Rigdon Calulus, Eighth Edition, Prentice Hall.

COURSE CONTENTS

The course consists of four main parts:

LECTURES and LABS

There are four lectures, one conference session, and one lab session per week. The lectures are conducted in SH308, on Mo,Tu,Th, and Fr, 1:00 - 1:50am. The conferences are conducted each Friday, 10:00-10:50pm in SH202.

The labs are conducted each Wednesday, 10:00-10:50pm in SH306. For a description and schedule, click here .

You are supposed to attend all lectures, conferences, and labs. If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to make a copy of the classnotes from another student and make sure you learn what you have missed. Labs will be graded and they bring 10% of your final grade. You should turn in the lab assignments in teams of two. In exceptional cases, with special permission, you can work on the labs individually. Teams of three or more students are not allowed. A missed lab cannot be made up. No late work will be accepted.

HOMEWORK

Homework is assigned for each section of the book covered. Homework is a required component of the course. Working the exercises will help you learn, and give you some perspective on your progress. You are encouraged to discuss homework problems with each other.

Homework will never be collected or graded, but if you don't do it on time, you will not get enough practice, and this will ultimately hurt your grade. As an incentive to do your homework, all test problems will be taken from the homework.

TESTS, EXAMS, GRADING POLICY

You can always check your grades at myWPI.

There will be seven in-class tests (25 minutes each) and a two-hour Final exam on the evening Wednesday, October 15 (7:00-9:00pm). No books, notes, or calculators will be allowed on the tests and exams. The lowest of the seven test scores will be dropped.

No makeup tests will be given - ever. If you miss a test, that will be the one dropped when computing the semester score.

The Final Exam will consist of two parts. The first part will be a Basic Skills component. You cannot pass the course if you do not pass the basic skills component. If you do pass the Basic Skills component, then your grade will be calculated in the following way:
60% of the grade come from the six best Tests,
30% of the grade come from the Final Exam,
10% of the grade come from the Maple Labs.

These scores are combined to give a final number of points, between 0 and 100. Point ranges for the final grades are approximately given by:
A: 100-90
B: 89-80
C: 79-65
These cutoffs might go down a bit due to curving (but don't count on it). They will not go up. (In other words, 90 points guarantee you an A, etc).

Students with failing averages in the course are given grades of NR, whether or not they passed the Basic Skills exam.

Students with passing averages who failed the Basic Skills exam are given grades of I (incomplete). They will be given the opportunity to re-take the Basic Skills exam at a later date; if they pass it, they will receive their respective grades based on their passing average.

Anybody caught cheating on any of the tests or exams will be assigned a failing grade.


Calculus 2, Term A03

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