MAT 21B (Calculus) Fall 2023, C01-C07 (CRN 38425-38433)
     MWF 2:10-3pm, 198 Young

http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~gravner/MAT21B/


INSTRUCTOR:

TAs: TA Help: Calculus Room

PREREQUISITE: MAT 21A. You are responsible for satisfying the prerequisite!

TEXTBOOK: Thomas' Calculus: Early Transcendentals, by Weir and Hass (15th edition, Pearson, 2022). Sections 4.8, 5.1-5.6, 6.1-6.6, 7.1-7.2, 8.1-8.4, 8.7-8.8, 11.1-11.4 will be covered, possibly not in order. Earlier editions of the book are fine. The scanned text of homework assignments will be posted on the Homework assignments page, so you will not need the book to access homework assignments and there will be no confusion as to which problems are assigned. If you have any questions about how to obtain a paper or an electronic version of the textbook, please email studentservices[at]math[dot]ucdavis[dot]edu.

GRADE: Course grade will be based on the following:

  • Midterm Exam 1 (Wed., October 25, in class): 100 points;
  • Midterm Exam 2 (Fri., November 17, in class): 100 points;
  • Final (Tuesday, December 12, 8:00am-10:00am, location TBA): 200 points;
  • TOTAL: 400 points.

I will follow this grading curve:

  • 0-40%: F
  • 41-50%: D
  • 51-65%: C
  • 66-80%: B
  • 81-100%: A

ADDITIONAL POLICIES:

I will make everything as predictable as I can, which I think is necessary more than ever. In particular, course policies will not change (either for the class in general or for particular students) due to world events, unless otherwise ordered by the university administration.

Thursday meeting (times vary for each Section) is a discussion session, lead by your TA, and devoted to homework and further elaboration on lecture material. Attendance of discussion sessions is mandatory (in the sense that you are responsible for the material covered there; your presence will not be verified).

Please bear in mind that talking, texting, newspaper reading, etc. disrupt the lectures. Use of computers, cellphones, recorders, or any other electronic devices during lectures is prohibited, except for the purpose of taking notes.

If you have any problem at all that requires special accomodation, please let me know well in advance!

Various class materials, including exams (with solutions) from the last time I taught this course are available on the materials page. However, material presented in the lectures will be the basis for the exams.

Homework will be assigned every Friday, and will be due on the following Friday. You are strongly encouraged to carefully do every assigned problem on your own, although the homework will not be collected. Any homework problem may occur on an exam, perhaps in a slightly changed form. Together with the homework, I will assign discussion problems, which will include old exam problems, additional examples etc. A selection of these will be covered in the discussion sessions.

Use of books, notes, calculators, or anything else but pencil and paper, will not be allowed on any exam.

There will be no make-up exams. A missed exam counts as 0 points. The grade I (Incomplete) will not be given in any circumstances. If you miss much of the coursework because of illness or other emergency, please petition for the Retroactive Drop.

Solutions for the midterms will be posted on the materials page.