The math course formerly known as ma19.

Here are the essentials on the course. See the Week-by-Week for a detailed overview of what we will cover each week and which problems are due.

Schedule for Section 1 (Ulfarsson):

Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:00-12:50pm in B&H 165
Office Hours: Monday 1:00-1:50pm and Friday 10:00-10:50am in KH018
Homework Due: Before 4:00pm on Friday in the UNGRADED course mailbox, in KH


Schedule for Section 2 (Prof. Hoffstein):

Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday 1:00-2:20pm in B&H 141
Office Hours: Monday 2:30-3:30pm and Friday 12:00-3:00am in KH111
Homework Due: Before 4:00pm on Friday in the UNGRADED course mailbox, in KH


Schedule for Recitation Sections:

Tanaka: Thursday 12:00-12:50pm in B&H 141
Cashman: Thursday 12:00-12:50pm in B&H 165
Jeong: Thursday 4:00-4:50pm in B&H 141
Course Description: "This course, which covers roughly the same material and has the same prerequisites as Mathematics 17, is intended for students with a special interest in physics or engineering. The main topics are: calculus of vectors and paths in two and three dimensions; differential equations of the first and second order; and infinite series, including power series and Taylor series."
Textbook: Edwards and Penney, Calculus, Early Transcendentals, 7th edition.
Location: Section 1 (Ulfarsson) meets in Barus & Holley, room 165 and Section 2 (Prof. Hoffstein) meets in Barus & Holley room 141. The building is on the corner of Hope Street and George Street: See map from maps.google.com below. The blue marker in the upper right hand corner is Barus & Holley. The blue marker in the lower left hand corner is Kassar House, which houses the department of mathematics - where we will have office hours.

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Office Hours: Ulfarsson's (Section 1) office is in Kassar House, room 018; that's in the basement. Prof. Hoffstein's (Section 2) office is in Kassar House, room 111; that's on the first floor. Office hours are displayed on the weekly schedules above and you can contact us if you need to set up an additional appointment.
MRC: In addition to the office hours of your instructors, you can get help at the Math Resource Center. Go to http://www.math.brown.edu/mrc for more information about the MRC this semester.
Recitation Sections: The first recitation sections will meet on Thursday, Sept. 13. Students of Hoffstein and Ulfarsson can go to any of the sections as long as they do so consistently and as long as a reasonable balance is maintained in the size of the sections. There will be weekly homework assignments. This HW will be due by 4 PM Friday in the math dept MA0190 mailbox, and will be discussed the preceding day in the recitation section. The HW problems to be turned in will be listed on the web site. The purpose of the section is to help explain points covered in class, and to help you over hurdles you may have encountered in the HW. It is NOT to provide a dictation source from which you can copy your HW. On the following thursday, the previous HW should be returned to you in section with a grade. You may discuss homework in groups of three or fewer; but if so you must attribute your collaborators at the top of each homework, e.g. ``I worked on these problems with...'' Incidentally, it's perfectly fine to work with others on homework, but there's a serious danger of giving yourself the impression that you understand something when you have in fact only been nodding in agreement. The way to tell if you've really understiood something is to do another similar problem, maybe not on the homework, entirely by yourself. Late homework will not be accepted.
Homework Guidelines: The general idea is to do the homework at a time that is as close as possible to the time the topics are covered in class. The very opposite of this is trying to do it all on Thursday night or, worse yet, trying to do it in section on Thursday afternoon. In general, give not just answers but descriptions of how you got to these answers. That is, show your work and reasoning. Homework will be graded on a basis of 2 points per problem: 2 points if the answer is basically all there, 1 if there is something more or less right but it's cloudier and more confused than it should be, and 0 if it's pretty much hopeless.

Turn in the homework on Friday at 4:00pm in the mailbox marked with the course number and your section number, in the mailroom in Kassar House.

Course Information/Grading Policy: The grade in the course is determined by homework (20%), two midterms (20% each) and a final (40%). The midterms will be in the recitation section. The first will be on Thursday September 27. The second will be on Thursday November 8. The Final will be on Tuesday December 18 at 2PM.
Special dates: See Academic Calendar.
Relevant Links:
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