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FALL 2015
Thursdays 11 12:50 pm in Room C-012
Instructor: Youngjun Choi
Office: S-228
Telephone: 1-908-526-1200, ext. 8445
e-mail: ychoi@raritanval.edu
Office hours: Mondays 3 4 pm, Tuesdays 10:50 12:50 pm, Wednesdays 1- 2 pm
Textbook: Calculus Early Transcendentals, 2nd edition, by Briggs & Cochran, Publishers:
Pearson Addison Wesley. NOTE: If you purchase your textbook from the RVCC bookstore it
comes with a MyMathLab technology component with an Access Code (required) and
Mathematica . Also, when you purchase/enroll into the course in MyMathLab you have access to
a PDF version of the textbook and may choose to not have a hard cover text in order to save
money
Technology Requirements:
Tests:
A
B+
B
40%
15%
5%
5%
5%
30 %
76 79%
70 - 77%
60 69%
Below 60%
C+
C
D
F
NO MAKE-UP TESTS will be given unless there contact to me via email or voice mail NO
LATER THAN the day of the exam as well as written documentation such as doctors note,
parole report, court appearance, accident report, bereavement notice, etc., explaining the
absence.
Only NON-GRAPHING calculators allowed for the tests. A word of advice explanations are
worth more to me than final answers. I often give multi-staged problems on tests, so show all
work in order to receive partial credit. The final exam will be cumulative and will contain material
from all chapters covered.
Labs: Lab work is separate from class work. Labs are meant to give you the opportunity to
explore calculus problems with the aid of technology and with the aid of other people. Each
student in a group needs to participate fully in investigating and answering the lab
questions. Only one lab report will be submitted by each group with each participants name
on the cover page; and one grade will be assigned for the group. Labs will be done in groups
of 4. Labs are to be typed or neatly written. Illegible work will receive no credit.
ATTENDANCE AND WITHDRAWAL POLICY
All students are expected to attend all classes. Regular attendance is essential for success in the
course. If you miss more than one-fifth of the class meetings, you may be asked to withdraw
from the course. In all cases, the responsibility for withdrawing from the course is the
individual student's. Failure to withdraw may result in an "F" grade for the course. Those who
simply stop attending the class may receive an "F" grade for the course.
Please contact me in advance (if possible) to explain your lack of attendance and to obtain
missing assignments.
DELAYED OPENING
If the College announces a delayed opening at any location due to inclement weather or other
emergency situation, all offices will be closed and all College classes and/or other activities
will be suspended at that location until the delayed opening time.
Classes scheduled to begin before the delayed opening time that have 60 minutes or more of
instruction time remaining at the delayed opening time will begin at the delayed opening time
and conclude at the regularly scheduled ending time. Classes scheduled to begin before the
delayed opening time that have fewer than 60 minutes of instruction time remaining at the
delayed opening time will be cancelled. Classes scheduled to begin at or after the delayed
opening time will meet as scheduled.
STUDENTS WITH DOCUMENTED LEARNING DISABILITIES
Reasonable Accommodation: Students with disabilities who require accommodations
(academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids or services) for this course MUST provide
documentation of accommodations from the RVCC office of Disability Services, C143. No
accommodations will be made without this documentation. For additional information, go to
the Disabilities Services website at
http://www.raritanval.edu/studentserv/counseling/index.html
Office Hours. The purpose of office hours is to provide time for me to help and interact
with you. If my office hours dont fit your schedule, email me and set up an appointment
to meet either on campus or virtually using WebStudy LIVE.
Classmates. Students are encouraged to form study groups. You can easily contact each
other via Lions Den or exchange each others contact information in person.
Academic Support Center (ASC). RVCC provides its students with math tutors, as well
as tutors in other disciplines, free of charge, in the ASC located in S-020 on the basement
floor of Somerset Hall. The textbooks student solution manual and video lectures are
available by request. To find out more, visit the ASC or call (908) 526-1200 x 8393.
Textbook Supplements. In addition to your textbook, there are supplemental resources:
MyMathLab: www.mymathlab.com online practice exercises, tutorial, solutions to
textbook exercises, lecture series, multimedia textbook. I will provide you a handout that
gives you instructions on how to register for MyMathLab.com. You will need a Student
Access Code (provided with your textbook or purchased alone) and a Course ID
choi02178. If your book did not come with MyMathLab, you will need to purchase a
stand-alone kit in the RVCC bookstore or go to
http://www.mymathlab.com/enrolling.html and click on purchase online access where
you will be asked for the Course ID choi02178.
CD Lecture Series Lessons corresponds to textbook topics.
Solution manual (available for free in MML, under chapter contents) provides step-bystep solutions for all the textbooks Check Points, Chapter Review Exercises, and
Chapter Tests. It also provides step-by-step solutions to the odd-numbered exercises for
each section.
THINGS I APPRECIATE
Conduct during class:
Be respectful to your classmates and me. Refrain from talking during lecture or any
disruptive behavior during class time (e.g., sleeping, working on unrelated material).
If you plan to be absent, tardy or leave class early, please inform me in advance.
Refrain from using profanity in class.
Come prepared:
Bring necessary material such as your textbook, writing utensil, and notebook.
Come ready to learn. That means that you are armed with a good attitude, have read the
assigned sections and attempted the homework assignment.
Final advice: You may not want to hear this, but it is true. The best thing you can do for yourself
is to forget about your grade. Your focus should be What do I need to do to understand
this material? If you understand what you are doing, your grade will follow appropriately.
What does it mean to understand? Students think that if they follow what I am doing at the
board in class, then they understand. THIS IS WRONG! Understanding what I am doing
in class simply means that you know how to follow a lecture. This does not mean you
understand the material. If you can read through your notes the day after a lecture and
explain to yourself what those notes say, then you are on your way to understanding. GET
INTO THE HABIT OF LOOKING OVER YOUR CALCULUS NOTES ON THE
DAYS WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE CLASS!
How do you gain understanding? Repetition. If you do something again and again, you begin
to understand how it works. CALCULUS IS NOT AN EASY SUBJECT! You are dealing
with time, motion, and infinity. These are not subjects for the faint-hearted. These are not
concepts in which you can gain understanding overnight. Those who are successful in
calculus are those who are willing to take time to think and ponder and contemplate and
explore. Those who are successful at calculus typically spend up to 10 hours a week
outside of class working on the subject!
CALCULUS II Honors
Tentative HOMEWORK, LABS, AND TEST SCHEDULE
Note: Before beginning any homework problems READ the appropriate section in the textbook
and then reread your notes. After each class meeting, do the homework that corresponds
to the sections covered in class.
Advice on doing homework: If you get a problem that you either cannot do or you
cannot get the correct answer, send me an email. I will either answer in an email reply
or at the beginning of the next class.
Section 6.1: Velocity and Net Change
Week 1
Week 2
Between Curves
p. 442 -444 # 5-14 all, 15-21 , 2832, 33-40, 41-48, 50-54, 55--62, 57
p. 450 # 1-15 all, 17-26, 27-30, 37,
38,
p. 457-458 # 1-4 all , 5-14 , 17-20,
22-24, 26, 28 ,29, 34,
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 8
Section 8.3: Infinite Series
Lab 7
Test 2, covering Chapters 7.1 7.9
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 14
Week 13