Professor: W. Stephen Wilson, Krieger 421, wsw@math.jhu.edu
Textbook: Calculus for Biology and Medicine, Third Edition, Claudia Neuhauser. ISBN 13: 978-0-321-64468-8.
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.
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.
Syllabus and General facts of life for the course for the Fall of 2013. Read all of this very carefully.
Short syllabus for Calc I, 106. I highly recommend that you look this over carefully and make sure that you know all of it because it is all a prerequisite for the course. Take this seriously. I will assume that you know everything in the syllabus for 106 (Calc I).
Short syllabus for Calc II, 107.
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 take a close hard look at the syllabus for Calculus I above and make sure you know that stuff cold. Then read the sections in the first part of our syllabus, i.e. 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, etc.
Information about Exam 0 is available.
There are 3 Khan Academy videos on improper integrals: Number 1. Number 2. Number 3.
There are 4 Khan Academy videos on elementary differential equations, including separable differential equations. I don't know if they cover equilibrium, but I'd be surprised if they do. Number 1. Number 2. Number 3. Number 4.
There are 3 Khan Academy videos on just solving linear equations of the sort we start with in 9.1. Number 1. Number 2. Number 3.
There are 3 Khan Academy videos on matrix multiplication. Number 1. Number 2. Number 3.
If you hunt around on my video website you might find some relevant problems solved. Almost everything there is linear algebra.
The first exam went very well. You need it for your homework assignment, so here it is.
The class average was 20.6, the median 22, and the standard deviation, for what that is worth, was about 5. A graph of the distribution is here with the actual distribution here.
Obviously 20 and above was very good, and 18 and below should be cause for concern.
There are a number of possibly relevant Khan Academy videos for Chapter 10. Number 1. Number 2. Number 3. Number 4.
Our Exam # 2 had a class average of 30 out of 46 + 2 bonus points and a median of 29. There was a high of 47 and a low of 10. 88 took the exam. I thought the class did pretty well.
The Exam distribution is graphed here.
If you have any confusion about this elementary probability and statistics that the lectures or the book don't clear up, there are more Khan Academy videos than you can shake a stick at on the subject. He is charming and covers the material with lots of examples. Watch them to your heart's content.
Our Final had a class average (for 88) students of 62.47 out of 100. I was very impressed as I thought I had made a much harder exam. The high was 90.
The scores are graphed here.
As impressed (and pleased) with the results as I was, there was one little disappointment. After we were finished grading, we went back through to see how many students got the two hard Meaner Monty Hall problems involving door switching and also got the two hard conditional hemophilia problems. Only two students got all 4 of those. They were, of course, my favorite problems.