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Course Information

Calculus III, Section 2

    Time: Mon, Wed: 1:10 pm - 2:25 pm

    Location: Havemeyer 209

Instructor

    Name: Jarod Alper

    Office: Room 716, Mathematics Building

    Email: jarod@math.columbia.edu

    Office hours: Tuesday 2-3 pm (and also by appointment)


Teaching Assistants



    Name: Anuca Laudat

    Email: avl2104@columbia.edu

    Help room hours: Friday 1-3 pm

    The Barnard Help Room, located in 333 Milbank, is specifically for Calculus I, II and III students. Tutors are on staff to assist with calculus questions. No appointment is necessary. The full schedule is available here.


Important Dates

Sept 8 First day of class (for CalcIII)
Sept 17 Last day to add classes
Oct 6 Midterm #1
Oct 12 Last day to drop classes
Nov 1 NO CLASS (Academic Holiday)
Nov 2 Election Day - University Holiday
Nov 18 Last day to change grade option
Nov 22 Midterm #2
Nov 25-26 Thanksgiving Break
Dec 13 Last day of class
Dec 20 Final exam

Textbook

We'll be using the following textbook this semester:

    Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Sixth Edition, by James Stewart.

If you have an earlier edition of this book, while the material covered is very similar, the exercises given are substantially different. Therefore, if you would like to use an earlier edition, make sure you copy the exercises from the sixth edition.


Course Content

This course will offer an introduction to multivariable calculus and particularly differentiation in several variables. We will cover most of the content in Chapters 12-14 with some additional sections selected from other chapers. The tentative syllabus is available here .


Homework

There will be weekly homework, due at 5pm on either Monday or Wednesday. Hand in your homework set in class or in the box labeled for my section of Calc III outside room 410 in the mathematics building.

Some of the homework will be exercises selected from Stewart and the rest will be exercises of my own choosing.

You are allowed to work together on finding solutions to homework problems. However, you must individually write up and submit your solutions. You are not allowed to exchange written homeworks with one another. If you decide to collaborate, you should write the names of your collaborators on the top of homework.

You must write your solutions legibly and show all of the work involved. Indeed an important part of undergraduate mathematics is learning the ability to write clear and precise explanations. Partial credit will be given.


Exams

There will be two in-class midterms and a final exam.

The first midterm will take place on October 6.

The second midterm will take place on November 22.

The final exam is projected to take place on Dec. 20, 1:10-4:00 pm.


Grades

The overall course grade is determined as follows:

Homework: 20%
Midterm 1: 20%
Midterm 2: 20%
Final Exam: 40%


Honor code

Cheating is of course strictly forbidden. Cheating on an exam will result in automatic failure of the class as well as potentially more severe consequences as the matter will be reported to the dean.

Copying another student's homework is also considered cheating and will suffer similar consequences. This remains true even if you worked on problems together; you must write up the solutions independently! The graders will be trying to identify homework scripts that are too similar. In any case, copying homework solutions will not add to your understanding of the material and therefore will not prepare you for exams.


Calculators

Calculators will not be used in a systematic way in this course. You will not be allowed to use calculators on exams and there will be no need for them.

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