Engineering Mathematics A, Math 1172 (class number 18637), Autumn Semester 2021

Instructor: Sergei Chmutov

Classes: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11:15AM -- 12:45 PM on ZOOM.
Except of the quiz and exam time you have an option not to be present in zoom meetings during the scheduled lectures. All classes will be recorded, the links will be posted in Carmen. You may watch the lectures at any time convenient to you.

TEXTBOOK: (Ximera) Calculus II (free accessible through Carmen).

Homework will be assigned weekly through Carmen. I will not collect the assignments.

Tests and quizzes: There will be three midterms and one final exams. Every Friday will be a quiz (last 20 minutes of the class time) or a midterm exam (entire class time). You may NOT use your calculator. You may not use your text, notes, or solutions to assignments. During the quiz and exam time you are supposed to be logged in to both Carmen and Zoom with your camera on. Except for extraordinary reasons, you must take the quizzes and examinations at the scheduled times. The first quiz grade will be dropped and one more, the lowest one, quiz grade will be dropped.

Calculators WILL NOT BE PERMITTED during exams and quizzes.

TENTATIVE EXAMINATION SCHEDULE:
MIDTERM 1 Friday, September 17. MIDTERM 2 Friday, October 22.
MIDTERM 3 Friday, November 19. FINAL EXAM Wednesday, December 15, 10:30 AM --- 12:15 PM

TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE:
Quizzes 100 Midterms 3x100 Final exam 200 TOTAL 600

GRADING SCALE (Percent):
A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D
90 87 83 80 77 73 70 67 63 60

Tentative daily schedule

GE information:
This mathematics course can be used, depending on your degree program, to satisfy the Quantitative and Logical Skills category of the General Education Requirement (GE).
  • Learning Objectives: Understand the basic techniques and applications of Integral Calculus, including applications of integration, integration techniques, sequences and series, Taylor series, working with parametric equations and polar coordinates, developing the component description of vectors, working with functions of several variables.

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