21-112 Calculus II
Fall 2007
Important: According to this link, our Final Exam is scheduled for 8:30 - 11:30 AM on Monday, December 10, location TBA.
Do not make plans to leave campus before then.
If your parents will
be making reservations for you, keep them informed so that
they
do
not schedule your departure before your exams are finished.
No one will be permitted to take the Final Exam early.
Preliminary Suggestions
The course will
go
most smoothly for you if you commit yourself now to the following
habits:
(i) Decide that you will attend evey lecture and every recitation
unless
something absolutely unavoidable happens.
(ii) Later on the same day of a lecture, take
a few minutes to review what we covered, to identify quickly any
points
on
which you are confused. Seek immediate assistance through the
professor,
your TA, or one of your chums in the class. (iii) Recognize that the
exams will cover concepts emphasized in lecture; the emphasis given
in
your text to particular topics
may be somewhat different. View the lecture as your primary source
and
the
text and recitations as a supplementary resource. (iv) Spread your
work
on assignments over a week, rather than working on the problems all
in
one
day. (v) Always pause for a moment after working a problem,
not
only to check accuracy, but also to reflect on your work,
thinking about ways to
simpify what you did, or argue differently, or ask if the method you
used
is applicable in more general contexts than the one from the problem
you
just did. Engage your mind in the work that you're doing;
don't
short-change yourself by rushing to "just get it done", and don't
allow
half of your mind to be occupied with Ultimate Frisbee or something.
Are you ready? Let's have a great course.
Textbook
The text for this course is Brief Calculus & its Applications
, 11th edition, by Goldstein, Lay, Schneider, and Asmar.
Instructor
Dr. John
Tolle
Office: Wean Hall 6124
e-mail: tolle+@andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 268-8419
Office Hours: MWF 12:35 - 1:35 PM, from August 27 to December 7, on
class days. I am happy to meet with you by appointment if you are
not available during this time slot. Simply email me, and we will
arrange a time.
Teaching Assistant
Katherine Kardaras
Office: Wean Hall 6215
e-mail: kkardara@andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: TBA
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 7-8 PM