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{\bf Information for students in Math 126A, Fall, 2000}
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{\bf Instructor:} Nancy Stanton
301 CCMB, 631-7436

Office hours: by appointment or 9-10:30 a.m.\  TTh 

email: Stanton.1@nd.edu

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{\bf Teaching Assistant:} Vladislav Chernysh, 306 CCMB

Office hours: 6-7 p.m.\ T



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{\bf Text:}
Thomas and Finney, \emph{Calculus}, 9th edition

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{\bf Syllabus:}  We will cover  Chapters 6-9.  The topics
are transcendental functions, techniques of integration, infinite
series,
 parametrized curves, and polar coordinates.

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You are encouraged to read each section
of the text before it is
covered in class.  To do well, you {\bf must}
keep up with the homework and review frequently.


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{\bf Computers:} 
We will use the computer algebra system Maple.


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{\bf NOTE:}  On Monday, August 28, the class will meet in the computer 
cluster in 148 Fitzpatrick for an introduction to Sparc Stations and
Maple.
\emph{Make sure you know your AFS ID and password by then.}
If you want to start on Maple Assignment 1 before then, go to the
course web site, click on Maple, then on How to Use Maple Work Sheets.
Then go back to the Maple page, click on Maple Help Worksheets or
Maple Help Web Pages, then on An Introduction to Maple.  (If you click 
on the worksheet option, you can download the introduction as a Maple
Worksheet, open it in Maple and try the things in it.)  

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{\bf Examinations:}  There will be two  midterms, eleven quizzes
and a final exam.

Exam I: Thursday, September 28, 8-9:15 a.m. in 127 Nieuwland

Exam II: Thursday, November 9, 8-9:15 a.m. in 127 Nieuwland

Final: Friday, December 15, 1:45-3:45 p.m.

Quizzes: Tuesdays, in the tutorials, beginning August 29, weekly except the 
weeks of the midterms and the last week of classes. 


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Calculators will generally be allowed on most quizzes and exams. 

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{\bf Homework:}  
 Homework assignments will be posted on the course web site on
 Wednesday.
The first assignment is already posted.
 Assignments will usually include reading, problems from the book, and
 Maple problems.


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{\bf Grading:}
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Midterms  100 points each

Quizzes 100 points (10 points each, the lowest
quiz score will be discarded)
 
Final 150 points
 
Homework 100 points (after scaling)
 


  
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{\bf Absence from examinations and quizzes:}  A student who is absent from
an examination or quiz without an official excuse shall receive a grade
of zero for that examination or quiz.  A student who is officially
excused shall not be penalized.  If you miss a test or quiz for any
reason, call the instructor or the Mathematics Department as soon as possible.

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{\bf Honor Code:}   
The Honor Code is in effect for all exams, quizzes and
assignments. You are encouraged to work together on the assignments,
but copying in any form or submitting work done by others as your own
is a violation of the Honor Code.

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{\bf Web Site}  The web page for this section is 
 
http://www.nd.edu/$\sim$nancy/Math126/info.html 

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 On this page you will 
find general information about the course (including a copy of this
handout), homework assignments, announcements, information
about Maple and Maple demonstrations.  If any last minute
 corrections to the 
homework assignments 
are necessary, they will be posted as announcements.
The Maple worksheets are also in the appropriate subdirectories of the
afs course directory 

/usr/local/courses/math/math126a.01

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\textbf{About office hours and tutorials:} 
If you have a question about the homework which you would like me to
discuss in class, please send me an email message telling me what 
the question is by 8 a.m.\ the day of class.   At the start of class, I
will
answer a few of these questions, carefully chosen to be
representative. 
 Since this is a large class, I will 
probably not have time to answer all the questions about homework
in class.
In the tutorials, the
teaching assistant will answer questions about the homework and will
give the weekly quiz, but he may not have time to answer all
the questions. You can get additional help from us during  our office
hours.
During office hours 
I am also happy  to discuss topics from the course in greater 
depth or to discuss  any  math-related questions you might have.


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