Math 128:  CALCULUS II FOR THE LIFE, MANAGERIAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES,  Spring 2004


SYLLABUS

Time and Place.   MWF 10:00-11:00am  in Louderman 458.
                           
                             Classes begin seven minutes after the hour and end on the hour. Late arrivals and early departures are very disruptive; please avoid them.
                             You are responsible for material covered in class and announcements made there.



Instructor .  Professor  Roberts
                   Cupples I, Room 109
                   935-8527


                   Send email to Prof. Roberts at roberts@math.wustl.edu.

Office Hours.   MW 11:00am-12:30pm and by appointment.


TA Office Hours.   The TA's will all have regular office hours and will be glad to help you with details or concepts. Your first choice should be the TA from your discussion section but either of
                            the two will be glad to help.


                            Greg Knese:  Tue  9-10am and Th 10-11am, 1-2pm  in Ridgley 419


                            Cynthia Traub:  Tue 10am-12pm, Th 9-10am   in Ridgley 419


Text .  Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences , Eighth Edition; Barnett, Ziegler and Byleen; chapters 7-12.

Communication.   The Daily Schedule gives the daily reading assignments and the recommended practice problems.  You should also check out the remaining links below, which are part of
                            this syllabus. The math department home page may be found at www.math.wustl.edu.  There are a number of useful links there, including a link to this syllabus online. 

Homework.   There will be daily recommended practice problems available on the Daily Schedule.  It is crucial that you work through these problems even though they will not be collected
                   for grading. The solutions to these can be found in the back of your textbook and, in more detail, in the Students Solution Manual.
                     There will also be weekly graded homework sets on Webwork, an internet based mathematics homework system.  These homeworks will be assigned via Webwork each
                   Friday, to be due the following Sunday. There will be no make-up homeworks;  if you miss a homework, a grade of 0 is assigned. However, your four lowest scores will be
                   dropped when computing your semester homework score (with the proviso that at most two of the last four scores will be dropped).

Discussion Sections.   You should be enrolled in one of the discussion sections for this course.  A quiz will be given at each discussion section (except during exam weeks),
                                  for a total of ten quizzes. The quizzes in a given week will cover the material listed in the Daily Schedule for the previous week. There will be no make-up quizzes; 
                                  if you miss a quiz, a grade of 0 is assigned. However, your four lowest scores will be dropped when computing your semester quiz score (again, with the proviso
                                  that at most two of the last four scores will be dropped).  No notes may be used on the quiz.  Sometimes calculators will be allowed; sometimes not. Quiz
                                  solutions can be found here.


Exams .   Three in-semester evening exams will be given.  These will be held on February 12 (Thursday), March 23 (Tuesday!) and April 15 (Thursday), 6:30-8:30 p.m.   
              The final exam will be given on May 6 (Thursday), 3:30-5:30pm. 


              The location for each evening exam will be announced on-line the day of the exam.  You should bring your WU photo ID,  pencils/pens,  and your calculator.


               If it is to your advantage, your final exam score will replace your lowest in-semester exam score.

               Legitimate excuses for missing an exam (such as verified illlness or family emergency) must be approved by Professor Jack Shapiro (Cupples 1, 107B, 935-6787).
             In unapproved cases, a grade of 0 will be assigned for a missed exam. Students who miss an in-semester exam with a legitimate excuse will not take a make-up exam; instead the
             statistical technique of multilinear regression will be used to estimate the missing score. (The details are complicated but the method takes into account both how the student did on
             the exams he/she took and the difficulty of the various exams; so he/she is not penalized if the exam he/she missed was an easy one.)  Students who miss the final exam with a
             legitimate excuse will take a make-up exam at the beginning of the next semester.


             See the  Exam Policies and Procedures link below for further information.


Grading System .   Your grade will be based on the following.  

 A final scale for letter grades will be determined at the end of the course. It will be no more severe than the scale listed in the following table.

            Students taking the course with the "Credit/No Credit" ("Pass/Fail") grading option must earn a grade of "D" or better to receive a "pass".

            Any students taking the course on an "audit" basis should talk with the instructor to determine what criteria will be used to award a grade of "successful audit."

Links.

Notes.   (1)  Calculus is not just about memorization and computation, but about understanding and application.  Although studying the lectures and doing all  homework should lead to
good results on the exams,  do not expect the exams to be carbon copies of the homework.  Thought and application are required!