Math 2142 (Advanced Calculus II)

Office Hours

My office hours are Wednesday 12:15-2:00 and Thursday 1:15-3:00. However, I am around the Math Department in Monteith almost every day, so if you cannot make those times, you can stop by my office or send an email to request another time.

Syllabus

The syllabus is here. The textbook for this course is Calculus Volume 1 by Thomas M. Apostol. The grading will be based on 40% for homework (roughly weekly and typically collected on Friday), 20% for each of the two midterm exams and 20% for the final exam. The midterm exams will be in class on Wednesday February 28 and Wednesday April 4. When UConn announces the time and place for our final exam, I will post it here as well.

UConn Policy Statement on Final Exam Scheduling: Final exam week for Spring 2018 takes place from Monday, April 30 through Saturday, May 5, 2018. Students are required to be available for their exam during the stated time. If you have a conflict with this time, you must visit the Dean of Students Office to discuss the possibility of rescheduling this exam. Please note that vacations, previously purchased tickets or reservations, social events, misreading the exam schedule and over-sleeping are not viable excuses for missing a final exam. If you think that your situation warrants permission to reschedule, please contact the Dean of Students Office with any questions. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Students with disabilities: Please contact me during office hours (or come by my office at another time) to discuss academic accommodations that may be needed during the semester due to a documented disability. If you have a disability for which you wish to request accommodations and have not contacted the Center for Students with Disabilities (CSD), please do so as soon as possible. The CSD engages in an interactive process with each student and reviews requests for accommodation on an individualized case-by-case basis. The CSD is located in Wibur Cross Room 204 and can be reached at 860-486-2020 or at csd@uconn.edu. Detailed information regarding the process to request accommodations is available on the CSD website.

Homework Assignments and Announcements

• Homework 1 due Friday, January 26, [solutions].
• Homework 2 due Friday, February 2, [solutions].
• Homework 3 due Friday February 9, [solutions].
• Homework 4 Part 1 and Part 2, due Friday February 16, [solutions for Part 1 and for Part 2].
• Reading on Laplace transforms.
• Homework 5 Part 1 and Part 2, due Friday February 23, [solutions for Part 1 and for Part 2].
• Here are some review problems for Exam 1 with solutions (updated Monday afternoon with corrections). The exam will cover the material through differntial equations, including infinite limits and L'Hopital's rule, improper integrals (computing and determining convergence/divergence), Taylor polynomials, complex numbers and differential equations.
• There will be a review session for the first exam on Monday February 26, 7:30-8:30 in MONT 225.
• Homework 6 due Friday March 9, [solutions].
• Homework 7 Part 1 and Part 2, due Friday March 23, [solutions for Part 1 and for Part 2].
• Homework 8, due Friday March 30, [solutions].
• Here are some review problems [and solutions] and some additional convergence review problems for Exam 2.
• Homework 9 due Friday April 13, [solutions].
• Here are some review notes about vectors that I wrote for another class a few years ago. Also, here are notes finishing a proof from class.
• Homework 10, due Friday April 20, [solutions].
• Here are some problems on the material from the week April 16-20 [and solutions]. You do not need to hand these in, but they cover material that will be on the final exam.
• Here are some problems on the material from the week April 23-27 [and solutions]. You can skip Problems 6, 7(c) and 8 as they cover topics that will not be on the final exam.
• Finally, here is one last batch of review problems for the final exam [and solutions] in case you want some more.
• The final exam will cover the material since Exam 2, including vectors, vector operations and the associated geometry; the notions of independence, span and basis; and vector calculus. I will have office hours during finals week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 12-2. I will hold a review session on Wednesday 3:30-5:00 in Monteith 113. Here is a short list of terms and results that you need to be able to state precisey for the final exam.