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Instructors: Christophe (Chris) Golé and James (Jim) Henle
[The separation of tasks will go roughly this way: Chris will give the main lectures, on Mondays and Wednesdays, and Jim will conduct problems and application sections for a good part of the Friday classes. Quizzes will often occur at the end of Fridays classes.]
Office: Burton 316 (Chris) and Burton 305A (Jim)
Telephone: (585) 3875 (Chris) and (585) 3867 (Jim)
Email & www:
| cgole@math.smith.edu | www.math.smith.edu/~cgole (Chris) |
| JHenle@math.smith.edu | www.math.smith.edu/~cohenle/software.html (Jim and David's online Calculus toolbox) |
Office hours:
Mon. & Wed. 10 -11, Tue.
3-4, Thu. 4:10-5:10 (note the change)
(Chris)
Mon. 10-10:50, 2-3, Tue. 9-9:50, Wed. 3-4, Thu. 10:20-11:20, 3-4
Don't hesitate to come!
Class meetings: MW 8:40-9:50, F 8:30-9:50 (note the change on MW)
Text: Calculus, speaking about change, by
David Cohen and James Henle
The book is available at the stockroom in the basement
of Sabin-Reed Hall (at the end of the corridor). The price of $25 will
be charged to your monthly bill.
About Calculus: Calculus (short for "Calculus of
Infinitesimals") is one the greatest achievements of mankind. It provides
a language which enables one to model many situations in the nature or
human sciences. There are two key concepts in Calculus: the derivative
("infinitesimal rate of change") and the integral
("net change", sum of infinitesimal changes). These are
in some sense inverse of one another. Our approach will be to present both
concepts at once, under successive viewpoints: as they relate to every
day's language, graphically, numerically, algebraically (with formulas)
and finally theoretically (proofs...). Applications such as computing areas,
integrating some differential equations, finding minima and maxima of functions,
will be interspersed throughout.
Homework: The homework assignment will be posted on Chris' web page (see above) each week. It will be due on Mondays. But you are strongly encouraged to work on it in throughout the week. In particular, you will be asked to bring preliminary drafts on Wednesdays and Fridays that you will discuss in your group and with the class.
Exams: There will be almost weekly quizzes, two take home midterms and a self scheduled final. At least one of the midterms will be in two parts: the first part will be your personal work, the second one will be a revised version after group consultation. Your grade for that midterm will be some average of both parts. The final will be a self scheduled exam.
Technology: A graphing calculator can be helpful, but not strictly necessary. We will also use the toolbox of Calculus software that Jim developped and posted on the web.
Grading:
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Attendance: Attendance to all the classes is very important. We would appreciate your writing us an email message or calling us if you cannot make it to a class.