AMS 161.1 APPLIED CALCULUS II Fall, 2008
Class Time and Place: TuTh 12:50 - 2:10 pm, Pyhsics P118 .
Instructor: Prof. Alan Tucker
Office: Math Tower P-138;
Office Hours: MWF 10:00am-2:00pm, Tu10:00-11:15,TuTh 2:15-3:15 in MathP138
How to Reach Prof. Tucker: telephone: 2-8365; e-mail: atucker@notes.stonybrook.edu
Course Text: CALCULUS, Fourth Edition,
by Hughes-Hallet, Gleason et al.
Quizzes (30% of grade): There will be a quiz every 2 weeks on Thursday.
Test (40% of grade): Only a (2 1/2-hour) Final Exam; NO Mid-term Tests.
Course Assistant:
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
webwork.ams.sunysb.edu/ams161.
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 -- Jan 28-30 : Sections 6.1-6.2
Week 2 -- Feb 5- 7: Sections 6.3-6.4; Webwork set1 due Sept 11
Week 3 -- Feb 12-14: Sections 7.1-7.2; Webwork set2 due Sept 18
Week 4 -- Feb 19-21: Sections 7.2-7.3; Webwork set3 due Sept 25
Week 5 -- Feb 26-28: Sections 7.3-7.4; Webwork set4 due Oct 2
Week 6 -- Mar 4- 6: Section 7.5-6, 8.6; Webwork set5 due Oct 9
Week 7 -- Mar 11-13: Section 7.7-7.8 Webwork set6 due Oct 16 and the following problems from Sect. 7.8: 2,8,19.
Mar 18-20 SPRING BREAK
Week 8 -- Mar 25-27: Sections 8.1,8.2; Webwork set7 due Oct 23
Week 9 -- Apr 1- 3: Sections 8.4,8.5; Webwork set8 due Oct 30
Week 10 -- Apr 8-10: Sections 10.1-10.4; Webwork set9 dueNov 6
Week 11 -- Apr 15-17: Sections 9.2,10.5; Webwork set10 due Nov 13
Week 12 -- Apr 22-24: Section 11.1; Webwork set11 due Nov 20
Week 13 -- Apr 29-May 1: Sections 11.4-6 (in 11.6, only Compartment Analysis); Webwork set12 due Nov 29
Additional homework problems: Section 11.5: 22ab, Section 11.6:7.
Week 14-- May 6- 8: Section 11.10-11; Webwork set13 due Dec 6.
Week 15-- Review
Spring 2008 Final Exam
Fall 2007 Final Exam
Spring 2007 Final Exam
Solutions for Past Final Exams
Final Exam, Thursday May 15th, 11am -1:30pm, Regular Classroom
Expected Curve in Prof. Tucker's AMS 161 class:
- approximately 25% A's, 35% B's, 30% C's, 10% D's,F's, & W's