AMS 161.1 APPLIED CALCULUS II Fall, 2010
Class Time: TuTh 12:50-2:10, Class Place: Physics P118
Instructor: Prof. Alan Tucker
Office: Math Tower 1-105;
Office Hours: WF 10:00am-1:30pm, TuTh10:00-11:15,2:00-4:00
Due to health problems, Prof. Tucker has been absent frequently this se
mester. It is best to contact him by email.
How to Reach Prof. Tucker: telephone: 2-8365; e-mail: atucker@notes.stonybrook.edu
Course Text: CALCULUS, Fifth Edition,
by Hughes-Hallet, Gleason et al.
Quizzes (30% of grade): There will be a quiz every 2 weeks on dates indicated on the class schedule below.
Tests (40% of grade): Only a (2 1/2-hour) Final Exam; NO Mid-term Tests.
Course Assistant: Nick Battista, NickABattista@gmail.com. He will respond to questions late Tuesday night>
Homework (30% of grade): Weekly assignments, DUE EACH THURSDAY NIGHT (except Tuesday night in first and last week-- see weekly assignments below) by 2 AM, generated and graded by computer and
done on the Web. You may try problems as many times as you want, until the stated deadline for the assignment. Each
student gets their own individualized version of each problem.
The address of the homework webpage is
webwork2.ams.sunysb.edu.
Your login name is your first initial and last name (type only first 10 letters of your last name if it is longer), your password is your USB id number.
In homework answers, you may use expressions, such '2*8.45 + sqrt(15).'
NOTE: YOU MUST RECEIVE AT LEAST
A 50% SCORE ON THE HOMEWORK TO PASS THE COURSE. NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS REQUIREMENT
Students with disabilities or who need special assistance with exams or other aspects of the course are asked to let Prof. Tucker know about their circumstances at the
beginning of the course.
Each student must pursue his or her academic goals honestly and
be personally accountable for all submitted work. Representing another
person's work as your own is always wrong. Any suspected instance of academic
dishonesty will be reported to the Academic Judiciary. For more comprehensive
information on academic integrity, including categories of academic dishonesty,
please refer to the academic judiciary website at http:
//www.stonybrook.edu/uaa/academicjudiciary/.
COURSE OUTLINE:
Week 1 -- Aug 31 - Sept 7 : Intro to Antiderivatives-- Sections 6.1-6.2 Webwork set1 due Sept 7
Week 2 -- Sept 14 - 16 : Intro to Diff Eq and Lws of Motion-- Sections 6.3-6.4; Webwork set2 due Sept 16
Week 3 -- Sept 21 - 23: Techiques of Integration-- Sections 7.1,2; Webwork set3 due Sept 23
Quiz 1 on Sept 21.
Two questions from set1: one like #4-17, one on area between 2 curves; three questions
on set2: one like problems #10-12, one like problems #18-21, 23-25; and one like problems #17,22.
Week 4 -- Sept 28 - 30: Integration by Parts-- Sections 7.3; Webwork set4 due Sept 30.
Week 5 -- Oct 5 - Oct 7: Numerical Integration-- Sections 7.5,6, 8.6; Webwork set5 due Oct 7.
Quiz 2 on Oct 5.
Two questions from set 3: one like #1-15, one like #13,23,24
and two questions
from set 4: one like #1-4 and one like #10 and #12.
Week 6 -- Oct 12 - 14: Impropoer Integrals-- Section 7.7-8; Webwork set6 due Oct 14 and the following SUPPLEMENTARY problems in Section 7.8: 2,8,19.
Week 7 -- Oct 19 - 21: Applications of Geometry-- Section 8.1,2; Webwork set7 due Oct 21.
Quiz 3 on Oct 19.
Two questions from set5: one like #11 and one like #8,10;
three questions from set6, one like #2,3,5,13,14, one like 12,15, one like #4,6,11.
Week 8 -- Oct 26 - 28: Applications to Density and Work-- Sections 8.4,5; Webwork set8 due Oct 28
Week 9 -- Nov 2 - 4 : Taylors Series-- Sections 10.1,2; Webwork set9 due Nov 4.
Quiz 4 on Nov 2.
One question from set 7 like #5-7, and one question on the volume of revolution like #9-12 & #16,
and from set8, one work problem like #2,3, one circular density problem, like #7,8, and one dam problem like #4,10.
Week 10 -- Nov 9 - 11: Applications of Taylor Series and Fourier Series-- Sections 9.2,10.3,5; Webwork set10 due Nov 11.
Week 11 -- Nov 16- 18: Introduction to Differential Equations-- Sections 11.1-3; Webwork set11 due Nov 18.
Quiz 5 on Nov 16.
From set9, one basic Taylor series problem like #1-4,6,
7, and one radius of convergence problem (carrying less weight) like #8-10,
from set 10, one question like #1,2,3 and one like #6.
Week 12 -- Nov 30 - Dec 2: Separation of Variables-- Sections 11.4-6 (in 11.6, only Compartment Analysis); Webwork set12 due Dec 2.
Week 13-- Dec 2 - 7: Second Order DEs-- Section 11.10-11; Webwork set13 due Dec 7.
Quiz 6 on Dec 7
One question from set11 like #3,4 and two questions from set 12, one like #1-5
and one like #6-7.
Week 14-- Dec 9: Review for Final
Spring 2010 Final Exam
Fall 2009 Final Exam
Spring 2009 Final Exam
Solutions for Past Final Exams
Final Exam, Thur Dec 16, 5:15-7:45pm, Regular Classroom Phys P118
Recent distribution of grades in Prof. Tucker's AMS 161 classes:
- approximately 30% A's, 35% B's, 15% C's, 20% D's,F's, & W's