Fall 2018
Math 132

Instructors:

Prof Blake Thornton Office: Cupples 1, Room 108A Email: bthornton@wustl.edu Office Hours: Blake's Calendar     Or make an appointment

Prof Jenny Shrensker Office: Cupples 1, Room 202 Email: shrenskerj@wustl.edu Office Hours:     Monday: 11:00-11:45, 2:00-2:30     Wednesday: 2:00-3:00     Friday: 2:00-2:45 (Except 9/21, 10/26, 11/30, 12/7)     Or make an appointment

Assistants to Instructors

Mary Barker: marybarker@email.wustl.edu

Josh Covey: covey@wustl.edu

Chris Felder: cfelder@wustl.edu

Chuang Liu: chang.liu@wustl.edu

Jiayi Fu: jiayi.fu@wustl.edu

Cezareo Rodriguez: cezareo.rodriguez@wustl.edu

Soumya Sinha Babu: soumya@wustl.edu

Tyler Williams: tgwilliams@email.wustl.edu

Bowei Zhao: b.zhao@wustl.edu

Help and Assistant Office Hours: Calculus Help Room. Available M-F between 10AM-5PM.

Math 132 Facebook Group:

Please join the Math 132 Facebook Group.
You can post questions or ideas you have about calculus. The instructors and assistants will also be members of the group and will respond when needed.

Syllabus

At the link above (which should take you to the bottom of this page), you can find information on textbook, discussion sections, help, clickers, calculators, homework, PLTL, study suggestions, exams, grades, grading scale and more.

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Tentative Schedue and Handouts:

The schedule is tentative and will be updated regularly.

Week	Dates	Sections & Recommended Homework (From Stewart Text)	Notes	Discussion Work & Handouts	Workbook Solutions
1	Aug 27-31	4.9: 1-15, 25-36 5.1: 3-5 5.2: 1,5,17,21-25	First day of class Mon Aug 27	WS01-Aug 28	WB:Chap4-9 WB:Chap5-1 WB:Chap5-2
2	Sept 3-Sept 7	5.3: 7-37 5.4: 5-12,21-35	No Class Monday	WS02-Sept 4	WB:Chap5-3 WB:Chap5-4
3	Sept 10-Sept 14	5.5: 1-36 6.1: 13-28, 31, 35		WS03-Sept 11	WB:Chap5-5
4	Sept 17-Sept 21	6.2: 1-18, 39, 47, 49, 55, 57, 58	Exam 1 Monday Evening Exam1 Exam1-Solutions Exam1-Scores Exam1-Formulas Exam1-Review Sheet Exam1-Review Solutions	WS04-Sept 18	WB:Chap6-1 WB:Chap6-2
5	Sept 24-Sept 28	6.3: 1-20 6.5: 1-17 7.1: 1-42	Desmos-Solids of Revolution	WS05-Sept 25	WB:Chap6-3 WB:Chap6-5 WB:Chap7-1
6	Oct 1-Oct 5	7.2: 1-49		WS06-Oct 2	WB:Chap7-2
7	Oct 8-Oct 12	7.3: 1-30	Exam 2 Tuesday Evening Exam2 Exam2-Solutions Exam2-Formulas Exam2-Review Sheet Exam2-Review Solutions	WS07-Oct 9	WB:Chap7-3
8	Oct 15-Oct 19	7.4: 1-38	Fall Break Mon/Tues (no discussion sections) Partial Fraction calculators: symbolab.com	Fall Break No worksheet	WB:Chap7-4
9	Oct 22-Oct 26	7.5: all 4.4: 8-64 7.8: 1-40		WS09-Oct 23	WB:Chap7-5 WB:Chap4-4 WB:Chap7-8
10	Oct 29-Nov 2	8.1: 1-22 8.2: 1-18 11.1: 1-56		WS10-Oct 30	WB:Chap8-1 WB:Chap8-2 WB:Chap11-1
11	Nov 5-Nov 9	11.2: 1-48 odd, 57-63 odd 11.3: 1-26 odd, 29-32		WS11-Nov 6	WB:Chap11-2 WB:Chap11-3
12	Nov 12-Nov 16	11.4: 1-32 odd 11.5: 1-34 odd	Exam 3 Tuesday Evening Exam3 Exam3-Solutions Exam3-Scores Exam3-Formulas Exam3-Review Sheet Exam3-Review Solutions Exam3-Practice Test Exam3-Practice Test Solutions	WS12-Nov 13	WB:Chap11-4 WB:Chap11-5
13	Nov 19-Nov 23	11.6: 1-38 odd	Thanksgiving Wed-Fri Discussion sections will meet	WS13-Nov 20	WB:Chap11-6
14	Nov 26-Nov 30	11.7: 1-38 odd 11.8: 1-28 odd 11.9: 3-32 odd	Series Flow Chart	WS14-Nov 27	WB:Chap11-7 WB:Chap11-8 WB:Chap11-9
15	Dec 3-Dec 7	11.10: 1-65 odd 11.11: 3-22 odd	Last day of class Friday	WS15-Dec 4	WB:Chap11-10
16	Dec 11-15	Final Exam Fri Dec 14, 10:30-12:30PM Exam 3 Tuesday Evening Exam4 Exam4-Solutions Course Review Exam4-Formulas Exam4-Review Sheet Exam4-Review Solutions Exam4-Practice Test Exam4-Practice Test Solutions

 

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Text 0 (Lecture Notes): Calculus 2 Lecture Workbook

You will want a copy of this to work through as it contains the problems that we will work through in lecture. Solutions/answers will be posted in the schedule above as we work through the book. It is a work in progress--there may be errors that I will try to correct as we go (not so helpful for us, but helpful for the next group).

Text 1 (Textbook): Stewart, Calculus, Early Transcendentals, 8th edition.

We will plan to cover most of chapters 5-8,11

I will be using the 8th edition, Early Transcendentals, but only as a rough guide. You should be okay with any edition but you will have less annoyances the closer you are to the 8th edition. Getting a non-early-transcendentals book is probably fine too, but you will have some annoyances to deal with.

There are many options for acquiring this book.

• Cengage Unlimited. This will give you access to not only calculus but also to chemistry. This is not required, but if you're buying this for chemistry already, no need to buy something else for calculus.

  What you need to know:

  • Here is a Cengage Video that describes Cengage Unlimited and describes how to get access.
  • Create an account and log on to WebAssign
  • Course Title: SCalcET8 (is this right?)
  • Class Key for Math 131: wustl 8449 0904
  • Class Key for Math 132: wustl 6516 5037
  • Class Key for Math 233: wustl 1158 5167
  • Textbook: Calculus: Early Transcendentals - 8e.
  • Click on "eBook"
  (Actually, I'm not 100% sure about all this but these are the instructions I received from the publisher)

• 8th Edition at Amazon
• 7th Edition at Amazon
• 6th Edition at Amazon
• 5th Edition at Amazon

For my money, I would buy a copy of the 6th or 7th edition, used, from Amazon for about $10-20.

Are you in the right class?

Math 131 Calculus 1: Limits, Derivatives, maxima and minima, L'Hopital's Rule

Math 132 Calculus 2: Integration, area, volumes, surface area, infinite series, Taylor series

Math 233 Calculus 3: Partial derivatives, multiple integration, Green's theorem and vector calculus

Discussion Sections

You will meet with your Assistant to Instructor every Tuesday (starting with the first Tuesday of class). In these meetings, you will learn new material and topics as well as work on problem solving. Come to these meetings prepared by doing your homework. You will have group work to do that will be graded and part of your grade.

We will drop two discussion section grades in computing your group work score.

Where to go for Help:

• Instructor Office Hours
• Assistant to Instructor Office Hours: Calculus Help Room. Available M-F between 10AM-5PM.
• Cornerstone: Walk-in and scheduled mentors.
• Cornerstone Calendar
• Engineering Tutoring Services (only available to EN students)

Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL)

The PLTL program is voluntary but highly recommended. If you want to participate, you must sign up the first week of class by completing an Application

Calculators:

While you are free to use any calculator for your homework, you will not be allowed to use a calculator for exams:
NO CALCULATOR ALLOWED FOR EXAMS

WeBWorK

To log in, go to Blackboard, Math 132-Merge, then click on "Content" (found on the left side).

You will do weekly homework online. You are responsible for making sure this is done by the due date.

Important! There may be more than one set due each week!

Collaboration: Feel free to work together but remember, you have to be able to perform by yourself on exams!

We will drop two webwork grades in computing your webwork score.

Recommended Homework

The textbook contains an enormous number of homework exercises at the end of each section. You will get the most out of the course if you do all of these (yes, I really do mean all of these). I will recommend a subset of these problems for you to focus on. These will not be collected or graded.

Study Suggestions - What to do daily and weekly

• Do ALL of the warm-up and lecture problems after lecture. Make sure you understand these problems!
• Read one section ahead--be prepared for lecture and discussion section. This has the risk of making lecture slightly boring with the potential benefit of understanding more.
• Do the WebWork homework early.
• Do the Recommended Problems.
• Go to discussion section prepared. This means that you have attempted or done most of your homework problems and attempted or done many of the recommended problems.
• Go to PLTL (if you are signed up) or do the PLTL problems (they are typically available after the PLTL groups get them).
• If you don't understand something, visit your instructor and Assistant office hours. You can see Calculus Help room for assistant office hours and other suggestions on where to get help.

Exams:

• Exams will be a mix of multiple choice questions (probably around 15-20 of these) and hand graded questions (probably 2 of these).
• The final exam will be entirely multiple choice.
• You will not be allowed anything other than writing tools at the exams.
• Find your room and seat before the exam: Exam Seating
• Find your multiple choice score the day after the exam here: Multiple Choice Exam Scores
• View past exams here: Old Exams (some semesters are more helpful than others).
• Find all your grades here: Blackboard. Webwork grades will be uploaded to blackboard at the end of the semester.
• Do not miss an exam. If something happens contact Dr. Blake Thornton as soon as possible.
• The final exam covers all material from the course.
• The Exam schedule can be found on this page, in the course description in Webstac.
• Curving:
  • If the average of the exam is below 75% then all exam scores will be adjusted upwards by adding a constant to everyone's score so that the average is 75%.
  • If the average of an exam is above 75%, no adjustments will be made.
  • Example: You get a 80% on Exam 1 and the actual average of Exam 1 is 50.0%. Thus, everyone will receive 25.0 "curve points" for Exam 1. Your score (to be used in grade calculations) for Exam 1 will therefore be 105%.

Exam Schedule

Exam Schedule
Exam 1	Mon Sept 17, 6:30-8:30PM
Exam 2	Tues Oct 9, 6:30-8:30PM
Exam 3	Tues Nov 13, 6:30-8:30PM
Final	Fri Dec 14, 10:30AM-12:30PM

Grades: Your final grades will be computed according to the following formula:

	    Grade = 0.75*( e1+e2+e3+ 2*e4 - min(e1, e2, e3, e4))/4
	    + 0.15*(WeBWork)
	    + 0.10*(Group Work)
	  

Basically this means that all exams and homework are weighted equally, the final exam can replace your lowest semester exam. The other items should be self-explanatory.

A+	TBA
A	[90,infinity)
A-	[85,90)
B+	[80,85)
B	[75,80)
B-	[70,75)
C+	[65,70)
C	[60,65)
C-	[55,60)
D	[50,55)
F	[0,50)

Pass/Fail Policy: You must get at least a C- to earn a "Pass".

Disability Resources (DR):

Special accommodations for exams are offered to students who have registered in a timely manner at Disability Resources (DR). Information about DR may be found at http://disability.wustl.edu/ Students who desire to take advantage of this service should go to the DR early in the semester, well before the first exam. Once approved for accommodations, students should work with DR for these exams.

Links and Resources

• Wolfram Alpha
• Flash Mathlets by B Kaskosz
• Sage
• Gnu Plot
• Maxima
• Octave
• Calculus Page Problems by D Kouba
• eCalculus.Org
• Slader Stewart Textbook Solutions
• Symbolab.com (Partial Fraction calculator)