| Course: | Math 142 (section 501) • Calculus II • Spring 2008 |
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| Class times: | Mon/Wed, 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM, LeConte 121/401 Tue/Thu, 11 AM – 12:15 PM, LeConte 121 |
| Instructor: | Bob Murphy |
| Office: | LeConte 400H |
| Office Hours: | Mon/Tue, 2 PM – 3:30 PM, or by appointment. |
| Phone: | 803-777-4713 |
| Email: | murphy ![]() |
| Home page: | www.math.sc.edu/~murphy/teaching/ |
| Prerequisite: | Qualification through placement, or a grade of C or better in Math 141. |
| Text: | Calculus: Early Transcendentals by Anton, Bivens, & Davis, 8th ed. (chapters 6, 7, 8, 10, 11) |
Maple Labs:
Wednesday's class will be in a Maple computer lab with lab TA Naichen Wang. Naichen's office is in LeConte 104B. He can be reached at 803-576-5944 or wangn
. There is also a lab home page at www.math.sc.edu/calclab/142L-S08/ .
Attendance: You are expected to come to every class on time and stay until the end of class.
Grading components: (no make-ups allowed on quizzes or tests)
| Maple labs | weekly assignments | 50 points &mdash this is 0.5 × (actual total) | ||
| Quizzes | Best 10 of 12 | 50 points &mdash this is 0.5 × (actual total) | ||
| Test 1: | Thursday, February 14 | 100 points | ||
| Test 2: | Thursday, March 20 | 100 points | ||
| Test 3: | Tuesday, April 22 | 100 points | ||
| Cumulative Final Exam: | Thursday, May 1, 9 AM – noon | 150 points | ||
| TOTAL: | 550 points |
Course Grade: Course grades are determined using the straight scale shown below.
| A | [495, 550] | |
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| B+ | [468, 494] | |
| B | [440, 467] | |
| C+ | [413, 439] | |
| C | [385, 412] | |
| D+ | [358, 384] | |
| D | [330, 357] | |
| F | [0, 329] |