Welcome to Calculus III
This class meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 1:25-2:15 PM in Malott 253.
General Information
The tentative plan for the semester and homework problems can be found here. Other handouts can be found here.
We will be using Piazza for class discussion. The system is highly catered to getting you help fast and efficiently from classmates, the TA, and myself. Rather than emailing questions to the teaching staff, I encourage you to post your questions on Piazza. If you have any problems or feedback for the developers, email team@piazza.com.
Find our class page at: https://piazza.com/cornell/spring2014/math2130/home
Lecturer
Amy Cochran, 582 Malott Hall, alc98@cornell.edu
Office hours: Wednesday 11-1P, MLT 582
Teaching assistants
Danielle Toupo, dpt35@cornell.edu
Office hours: Monday 2:30-4:30P Rhodes 657
Zhexiu Tu, zt66@cornell.edu
Office hours: Friday 4-5P, MLT 218
Recitations
Dis 201, TR 8:00-8:50A, Tu
Dis 202, TR 9:05-9:55A, Toupo
Dis 203, TR 10:10-11:00A, Toupo
Textbook
McCallum, Hughes-Hallett, Gleason, et al., Calculus: Multivariable (paperback) (Edition: 6) John Wiley & Sons, 2013 (ISBN: 978-0-470-88867-4 ).
Prerequisites
MATH 1120, 1220, or 1910. Designed for students who wish to master the basic techniques of multivariable calculus, but whose major will not require a substantial amount of mathematics. Students who plan to major or minor in mathematics or take upper-level math courses should take MATH 1920, 2220, or 2240 rather than MATH 2130.
Course requirements and grading
There will be weekly homework assignments due in class on Wednesday. The homework consists of all problems assigned on the previous three lectures (Wed,Fri,Mon). Late homework will not be accepted except in the most extenuating circumstances.
Grades are broken down as follows:
Section grade (homework completeness, participation, and quizzes) 20%;
Three prelims, each worth 15%;
Final Exam 35%.
Homework will not be graded on correctness but rather on effort towards completing the assignment. Section grade will be based primarily on quizzes which are given every Thursday in recitation and which are (verbatim) homework problems due the previous day.
Working together
You may collaborate on the homework, provided that the homework you turn in represents your own solutions, written in your own words, regardless of whether you arrived at some of the solutions with others. Any persons with whom you collaborated should be referenced on your homework. You may not copy any part of someone's homework or any solution you may find on the internet. This will be treated as a violation of Cornell's Academic Integrity Code.
Academic integrity
Academic integrity is very important to me. I will follow university procedures in all cases of suspected cheating.