Math 146, Spring 2017

Honors Calculus II

MATH 146: Covers integral calculus, sequences and series, and the basics of vectors with applications to physical sciences and engineering. The course will be comprised of a series of "mini-units" focusing on fundamental calculus topics and their applications.

• There is a strict policy of NO LATE HW (or any other assignment) and NO MAKE-UP EXAMS.
• Assignments should be submitted in original hard-copy form, or else as carefully scanned PDFs; photographs of HW will not be accepted.

Announcements

• Final Exam - Tuesday 5/9 - 4:30 - 7:00 pm in 120 Snow Hall is comprehensive and will cover topics of all three Exams:
  • Exam I: see lectures 1 through 14,
  • Exam II: see lectures 16 through 25 ( Parametric Equations, Arc Length and Speed, Polar Coordinates, Area and Arc Length in Polar Coordinates, Vectors in the Plane, Vectors in Three Dimensions, Dot Product and the Angle Between Two Vectors, The Cross Product, Planes in 3- Space)
  • Exam III: see lectures 26 through 37

• 5/2/2017:
  You are invited to:

  • "Predicting Epileptogenesis after Traumatic Brain Injury and Using Virtual Reality to Correct Segmentation Errors in MRI" (pdf)

  at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May, 2, in 306 Snow Hall:

  4/27/2017:

  • You are invited to attend the Smith Colloquium at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, in 306 Snow Hall:
  • "The Amazing Poisson Calculation: A Method or a Trick?" (pdf)

  4/24/2017:

  • You are invited to attend the Russell Bradt Undergraduate Colloquium at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, April 24, in 306 Snow Hall:
    • "Statistics for Renegade Mathematicians" (pdf)

  
  Exam II - Take Home, March 29 covered Chapter 11 & 12
  Exam III - In class, April 26 will cover Chapter 10

Homework Grading Policies and Expectations

1. Weekly assignments of 10 problems will be collected at the beginning of class each Wednesday. No late HW will be accepted.
2. The student's name and "Math 146, HW #..." need to be clearly stated on the front page of each submission.

3. Each problem is worth up to 2 points (so each assignment is out of 20 points in total), with:

   • 0 points for no solution or totally wrong approach
   • 1 point for correct reasoning but the lack of details in justification or/and wrong calculation
   • 2 points for correct reasoning with detailed justification

   Remarks: The focus of this course is on good understanding of mathematical statistics concepts; therefore arithmetic mistakes in this course are negligible, but I require that they be clearly marked. Grading has to be done in such a way that a student will know clearly what was the reason for losing points. Different approaches to finding solutions are encouraged and promoted; therefore looking at posted online solutions while grading students' work is not recommended. I recommend looking at a student's full assignment and providing any general comments or recommendations such as "your presentation requires improvement or significant improvement" at the end of the assignment.

4. I expect to receive a weekly report/feedback from the grader. In this report I expect to see:
   • the record of points, mean, median, the lowest and the largest value and the standard deviation
   • the list of problems that left students with their concerns; in other words, which problems I should revisit to address students' lack of understanding
5. Graded assignments will be returned to students in class on the following Wednesday
6. At the end of the semester I will expect to receive a cumulative distribution of points and percentages with the same distribution characteristics as for each individual assignment.
7. Students are responsible for collecting their graded HW assignments and for keeping them in their course portfolio as important evidence of their contributions.

Homework Assignments

Lectures