OFFICE: Room 402, 16 Colchester Ave. (Math Dept.)
6-4344 (office), 6-2940 (Department office)
e-mail: dummit@math.uvm.edu
OFFICE HOURS:
MWF 10:30-11:30 MWF and any time by appointment
TEXT: Calculus Early Transcendentals, 6th edition, by Stewart
The course will cover most of the material from Chapters 6-11.
GRADING:
There will be weekly homework assignments, weekly quizzes,
weekly labs, two mid-term
exams (Tuesday, February 10 and Tuesday, March 24) and a final exam
(8 a.m. - 11 a.m., Friday, May 8, 102 Perkins).
Your course grade will be the better grade of the
two grades computed as follows:
- 10% quizzes (worst two quiz grades discounted)
10% lab assignments
40% mid-term exams
40% final exam
- final exam grade.
While the assigned homework problems will not be
collected, the quizzes will be based on the homework assignments
(usually to the extent of being actual homework problems).
There will be NO MAKE-UP EXAMS. If you must
miss an exam or a quiz for legitimate reasons (and, with extremely rare
exceptions based on compelling circumstances, with prior notification)
your grade will be determined
on the basis of your remaining work. In all cases, if at any time
you feel your grade does not adequately reflect your performance in class,
please see me.
The computer labs will be on
Tuesdays and the associated exercises are to be submitted no
later than the beginning of class on the following Friday.
COMPUTERS:
If you do not already have one, you will be given an
account on the CEMS computer network, providing access to
the Mathematica software package installed
on all computers in labs in Votey and Perkins. The UVM site license
for Mathematica allows you to install the software
on any personal computer to which you have access.
Directions on how to install it on your machine can be found at
http://www.uvm.edu/~cems/mathstat/?Page=mathematica/install.php&SM=mathematica/_mathicamenu.html
There is a free screencast which has been developed to get new
students up to speed with Mathematica 7 in just a few minutes,
available at
Hands-on Start to Mathematica .
GETTING HELP:
In addition to office hours where you can (indeed, are encouraged!)
to come talk to me, there are help and tutorial sessions available
from the Mathematics Department. The schedule for these sessions can
be found at
Help Sessions.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Students are expected to observe appropriate codes of conduct.
UVM policies and procedures can be found at:
Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities
and
Code of Academic Integrity
Students have the right to practice the
religion of their choice. Each semester students should submit in
writing to their instructors by the end of the second full week of
classes their documented religious holiday schedule for the
semester. Faculty must permit students who miss work for the purpose
of religious observance to make up this work.
Students requiring special accomodations must make arrangements within the
first two weeks of class.
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