Welcome to Calculus 2. The
purpose
of this page is to make certain resources available and keep you
up to date with everything
going
on in the course.
** REMINDER: If you're having trouble
with the
course,
there are video clips available
on
which
many
typical problems are presented and explained. It's worth taking a look
at if you
feel
the
need.
They are available here
.
EXAM #1
INFORMATION:
Exam #1 will take place during the usual lecture time and room on
Wednesday, October 1.
There will be an in-class review in lecture on Monday, September
29. Here are some practice
problems.
No books, notes or calculators are allowed. I will provide the two
double angle trig identities as well as the
parametric and polar arclength formulas.
Below is a list of topics to be covered on the
exam, with textbook citations. Since we didn't necessarily
discuss every section in its entirety, the class notes are the best
guide to the exact material covered.
This
is one of several opportunities to improve your quiz grades. A
cumulative quiz containing new versions of some of the problems
from the previous skills
quizzes will be given, and you will gain credit for any problem you
answer correctly that was answered
incorrectly on the previous
quizzes. Note that there is no penalty for
answering a question incorrectly if it has already been answered
correctly on a previous
quiz.
Course
Information:
Office Hours Information:
Prof. Schmidt's Office Hours (in Amos Eaton 408): Monday 1 - 2:30 PM, Wednesday 10 - 11 AM
Recitation Instructor Office Hours:
Kai Sikorski: Tuesday 10 - 11 AM and
Friday 3 - 4 PM
Skills Assistant Office Hours:
Joan Stupik: Tuesday 1 - 2 PM, 4th Floor
of Amos Eaton
Elyse Demers: Wednesday 10 - 11 AM, McNeil Room,
Rensselaer Union
Course Resources:
General resources for Calculus:
This web page
collects many
helpful
resources, including information about Supplemental
Instruction, Drop In
Tutoring,
on-line
video clips and much, much more!
Resources Specific to our class:
Resources for Calculus Skills Problem Set:
The Calculus
Skills Problem
Set
is a set of problems designed to test your ability to carry out the
basic
computations
from Calculus accurately.
Throughout
the semester you will be tested (during quizzes and the final exam) on
algorithmically generated
versions
of these problems. You will also have designated class time each
week
to work on these problems
in a
supervised setting.
These problems
will always be
graded
with no partial credit, and will account for approximately 20 % of
the course grade. The
details of
how the skills problems will be tested and how they will contribute to
your
grade appear in the course
policies
above.
The
Calculus Skills home
page
is http://calculus.math.rpi.edu.
This page contains much important information
pertaining to the skills portion of the course,
including
rules pertaining to how the problems will be graded,
academic integrity guidelines, and Skills
Assistant
office hours. It also contains a list of all the Calculus
Skills problems and resources for practicing
different
versions of them.
MAPLE Resources:
MAPLE
Files This is a series of tutorial files explaining how
MAPLE can be used to perform different pre-Calculus
and Calculus tasks. MAPLE (or a graphing calculator) may be handy now
and
then if you need to
quickly sketch a graph or solve an equation, although neither resource
may be used on exams and
quizzes.