Any student with a documented disability needing academic adjustments
or accommodations is requested to speak with me during the first two weeks
of class. All discussions will remain confidential. Students with
disabilities should also contact the Office of Student Disabilities Services, located in the
Learning Resources Center.
Functions of several variables, vector-valued functions, partial derivatives and applications, double and triple integrals, conic sections, polar coordinates, vectors and analytic geometry, first and second order ordinary differential equations. Applications to physical sciences. Use of symbolic manipulation and graphics software in Calculus.
Please see http://www.math.upenn.edu/ugrad/calc/m114/ for more details.
Maple will be used in this class. This software will be used in classroom demonstrations, and you will be required to use it for some of your homework assignments. The software is available for purchase at the bookstore. Additionally, Maple has been installed in most of the computer labs at Penn, including those in residence halls and in academic buildings. Please see the following website for more details: http://www.math.upenn.edu/ugrad/maple/.
We will use the Penn Maple/Calculus Lab Manual, which is available both at the bookstore and at the following
website:
http://www.math.upenn.edu/~ugrad/maplemanual2002/contents.html.
Homework is an important part of any math class. It is important that you practice doing the problems. This will help you to understand the material better and will prepare you for the exams. You are encouraged to discuss the homework, and to work together on the problems. However each student is responsible for the final preparation of his or her own homework papers.
Homework will be assigned at the end of every class. It will also be posted on the website:
http://www.math.upenn.edu/~cleidy/114/homework.html.
It is due the following class. If for some reason you miss class or cannot turn in the homework during class,
you have until the end of that day to put it in your TA's mailbox in the math department office
(DRL 4W2-7). The math department office closes
at 5pm. After that time, late homework will not be accepted.
Quizzes will be given at the beginning of each recitation. The quizzes will test
material that has already been covered in the lecture and in the homework. The purpose
of the quizzes is to give you feedback on your understanding of the material before the
exam. Quizzes cannot be made-up.
Two midterms and a final will be given.
The course grade will be computed as follows:
I will hold office hours Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm.
If you cannot make these, feel free to email me at cleidy@math.upenn.edu
to make an appointment for a different time.
The Calculus Help webpage has lots of information about how to get help. These include:
The Math/Maple Centers
These are places that you can go to ask questions about the course, including homework and Maple problems/projects. The sessions are held four nights each week (Monday-Thursday), with a rotating schedule throughout different campus residences. There is at least one Mathematics graduate student available at each location to answer questions. The centers are open to ALL calculus students no matter where they live (but remember to bring your Penn ID to be admitted to the residence hall).
The schedule for the Math/Maple Centers is here.
If you have your own laptop with Maple installed, it would be a good idea to bring it with you.
Sunday Night Reviews
These are held for each calculus course on selected Sunday evenings from 7:00-9:00pm in David Rittenhouse Laboratories, and are organized by course. Each review is run by a Teaching Assistant for that class. Reviews are a good place to go to ask specific questions about the problems and concepts that are being studied in class.
These reviews are held on demand, usually just before midterms. If
you want a Sunday review session on a particular date, please ask your
instructor who is able to schedule it through the Math
Department. Sunday Night Review schedules will be announced in
class.
Online Help
In addition, this semester you can seek help online using the computer program
Blackboard
for your course. Just login using your usual PennNet userid and
password. On the right side of the screen you'll see the list of your
courses that have set-up Blackboard sites. Among them should be your
calculus course. In the "Discussion" section for that course you can
send your own questions and reply to questions of others. It is like
a chat-session just for your calculus course. Someone from the
Math. Dept. will be monitoring this to help answer questions on
Monday-Thursday evenings, 9pm-1am. Of course you can use this to help
each other at any hour of the day (or night).
Tutoring
The Tutoring Center offers Penn students a variety of peer tutoring services. All Tutoring Center services are free for matriculating undergraduates.
In addition, Mathematics Department approved private tutors can be found at http://www.math.upenn.edu/ugrad/tutors.html.