AMS 161.1 APPLIED CALCULUS II Fall, 2009
Class Time: TuTh 12:50-2:10, Class Place: Physics P118
Instructor: Prof. Alan Tucker
Office: Math Tower P-138;
Office Hours: MWF 10:00am-2:00pm, Th10:00-11:15,TuTh 2:00-4:00 in MathP138
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 Thursday.
Tests (40% of grade): Only a (2 1/2-hour) Final Exam; NO Mid-term Tests.
Course Assistant: TBA. He will respond to questions late Tuesday night>
Homework (30% of grade): Weekly assignments, DUE EACH TUESDAY NIGHT 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/.
cjudiciary/
COURSE OUTLINE:
Week 1 -- Sept 1 - 8 : Intro to Antiderivatives-- Sections 6.1-6.2 Webwork set1 due Sept 8
Week 2 -- Sept 10 - 15: Intro to Diff Eq and Lws of Motion-- Sections 6.3-6.4; Webwork set2 due Sept 15
Week 3 -- Sept 17- 22: Techiques of Integration I-- Sections 7.1; Webwork set3 due Sept 22
Week 4 -- Sept 24- Oct 1: Techniques of Integration II-- Sections 7.1; Webwork set4 due Oct 1.
Week 5 -- Oct 6-8: Integration by Parts-- Sections 7.2,3; Webwork set5 due Oct 8
Week 6 -- Oct 13- 15: Numerical Integration-- Section 7.5-6, 8.6; Webwork set6 due Oct 15.
Week 7 -- Oct 20- 22: Improper Integrals-- Section 7.7-7.8 Webwork set7 due Oct 22 and the following problems from Sect. 7.8: 2,8,19.
Week 8 -- Oct 27- 29: Applications to Geometry-- Sections 8.1,8.2; Webwork set8 due Oct 29
Week 9 -- Nov 3 - 5: Applications to Density and Work-- Sections 8.4,8.5; Webwork set9 due Nov 5.
Week 10 -- Nov 10- 12: Taylor Series-- Sections 10.1-10.4; Webwork set10 due Nov 12.
Week 11 -- Nov 17- 19: Fourier Series-- Sections 9.2,10.5; Webwork set11 due Nov 19
Quiz 5 on Nov 17.
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 24 - Dec 1: Separation of Variables-- Sections 11.4-6 (in 11.6, only Compartment Analysis); Webwork set12 due Dec 1
Additional homework problems: Section 11.5: 22ab, Section 11.6:7.
Quiz 6 on Dec 3
One question from set11 like #3,4 and two questions from set 12, one like #1-5
and one like #6-8.
Week 13-- Dec 3 -8: Second Order DEs-- Section 11.10-11 and Review; Webwork set13 due Dec 8.
Week 14-- Dec 1o: Review for Final
Spring 2009 Final Exam
Fall 2008 Final Exam
Spring 2008 Final Exam
Solutions for Past Final Exams
Final Exam, Thur Dec 17th, 5:15-7:45pm, Regular Classroom
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