Professor: W. Stephen Wilson, Krieger 421, (410) 516-7413, wsw@math.jhu.edu
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday, 9-9:50.
Textbook: Single Variable Calculus, Early Transcendentals, James Stewart, 7E
There is more detailed information about the textbook.
The publisher tells me that you can save money by renting their text or buying e-books or audio books, etc, at this website.
All registration issues such as getting into the class or changing sections are handled by the the registrar or the math dept. The teaching assistants and I are not allowed to sign anything in this regard. Go to the Registrar for the first 2 weeks. After that, go to Sabrina Raymond in the math dept and she can help you. You will get into the course.
If you get the flu, you are not supposed to come to class. Our classroom is very small and you will be in close proximity to many and they too will get the flu. In particular, stay away from me so I can keep teaching. At least a third of you will at least catch a cold, if not the flu, during the first month or two of classes. This is one of the joys of college life, sort of like starting Kindergarten. I'll talk to you all endlessly, but, please, no physical contact, for example, shaking hands.
Here is a page of useful supportive materials for the course, things like how to study math etc. It has grown and become cluttered so I wanted to get it off the main page.
One of the things on that page is the following: One of the problems many students have is that they don't really know how to study since doing well came easy in K-12, or, because the K-12 environment is not quite the same as here in college (notice?). Anyway, here are some study tips.
Anyone interested in and/or in need of tutoring in Calculus II should take a look at the tutoring webpage for Academic Advising. You have to make a reservation, but their schedules, etc, are all there now.
First day of class the PILOT program was discussed. Here is their website.
Syllabus and General facts of life for the course for the Fall of 2011. Read all of this very carefully.
Short syllabus for Calc I, 108.
Short syllabus for Calc II, 109.
Weekly homework, reading assignments, and general announcements will be here.
I will try to post the reading assignments for Friday and next week's Monday and Wednesday, and the homework for this week's MWF lectures, due next week Tuesday or Thursday, on Wednesdays late (i.e. before midnight).
For this first week of class I suggest you do the obvious and read the sections in the first part of the syllabus, i.e. 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, etc.
A collection of videos on material in Chapter 7.
I just found 3 Khan Academy partial fraction videos that I've added (9/11). If anyone finds good videos I should put links up for, please email me and I will.
Just a couple of videos for Chapter 9. Please find me some more!
Just a few videos for Chapter 10. These don't have much Calculus, if any, in them, so they don't do area for example.
There was a serious problem with the last problem on the exam so it was not counted. I'll talk more about that in class on Friday.
Our Exam # 1 had a class average (for 240) students of 9.3 out of 16 for 58%, right about where I like the average to be (and where last year's was as well). Keep in mind that the middle student is probably a B- student in the class. (The median is 9. The mode is 7.)
There were 12 students with perfect 16 scores and 1 student with a perfect 0 score. There were another 29 students who scored 14 or 15 out of 16 suggesting that the test was too easy. The Exam distribution gives a good spread. It is graphed here.
Due to the exam next week (Oct 26), there will be no problem set. There will be a quiz in section though. It can be on anything that the exam can be on, i.e. anything in 10.1-4, so you should be prepared for it.
Our Exam # 2 had a class average of just a little over 15 out of 30 for a class average of 51%. I know this doesn't sound great, but I thought the class did pretty well. Keep in mind that the middle student is probably a B- student in the class. (The median is 15.)
There was one student with a perfect 30, another with 29, one with 28, one with 27, one with 26, and, finally, 2 with 25 and then more for lower scores. The Exam distribution . It is graphed here.
For those who need help with study skills (and many of you do): The link.
If you want some serious series to study, look at my ancient final exam for the course from the Fall of 1999.
This is not really a problem set, since you don't have to hand it in.
Our Final had a class average (for 237) students of 16.27 out of 40 for 40.1%. The high was 39. The low was 2.
The Exam distribution . It is graphed here.
Answers for the final, but not solutions.