Course: Analytic Geometry and Calculus II

Math 263B, Sections A02 and A03

Instructor:  Sergio R. López

Office:  Morton 315A

Phone:  593-1258

e-mail:  lopez at math.ohiou.edu

Call Numbers: 04704 and 04705

Web page for our sections: www.math.ohiou.edu/~lopez/263B.html

Math 263 web page: www.math.ohiou.edu/courses/math263

Web page for MATLAB:  www.math.ohiou.edu/~matlab/

Office hours:  Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00-12:00 and by appointment.  Note that I will often be in Morton 414 during office hours to take advantage of the larger blackboard in that room.

Class schedule:  M,T,R,F 10:10 - 11:00.

Location:  Morton 326

Textbook:  Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Stewart, 5^th edition

Evaluation: There will be 2 tests and a final. In addition, there will be in-class group work which will be graded, a quiz on preliminary material, and assignments using MATLAB. The midterm exams will count for 20% of your grade, the final will be worth 35%, group work 20%, and MATLAB 5%. 

 You should read the Student Handbook for MATH 263 A and B and review all the material listed there. Memorize now everything it tells you to memorize.

 Homework will be assigned regularly but not graded. Many of the test problems will come directly from the homework. The best way to do well in this class is to do and understand all the homework.

 There will be 6 assignments using MATLAB. They will be very simple, but for maximum credit your work should be well written. Work on these assignments with a partner and turn them in together. You will be responsible for material from these assignments on exams.

Letter grades will be assigned according to the following distribution:

There is a combined final for 263B.    The time will be Friday, November 20, at 7:00 pm. The location will be announced later.

Cheating Policy:  No cheating on any exam or assignment will be tolerated.  Penalties may extend to the failure of the course.

The Ohio University Provost and the Chair of the Faculty Senate have encouraged our faculty to include the following remark in this first-day-handout to be prepared for any incidents regarding the Swine flu. Hopefully we will not need to enact any contingency plan but, as they say, better safe than sorry!

 In the event of a major campus emergency, course requirements, deadlines and grading percentages are subject to changes that may be necessitated by a revised [quarter] calendar or other circumstances beyond the instructor’s control.