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Instructor: Joshua Holden
Office: Physics 227
Office Phone: 660-2837
E-mail:
holden@math.duke.edu
Web Page:
http://www.math.duke.edu/~holden
Tentative Office Hours:
Monday and Tuesday, 1:30-2:30, and also by appointment.
Calculus with Analytic Geometry, Edwards and Penny, Fifth
edition.
- Homework will account for 15% of your grade. Homework
assignments will be posted on the web and in class every day, but they
will only be due once a week, on Wednesday. Homework will be graded and
returned to you.
- You are encouraged to work in groups of two or more on the
homework. However, each student should turn in a separate
paper and should note on his or her paper who her or his collaborators
were, if any.
- I am going to be making regular reading assignments from the
textbook. Please do as much of these as possible before every class,
and make up those which you have missed. 5% of your grade will
based based on homework questions taken directly from the reading.
All of this is necessary because you will be doing examples
in class, not me. (How this works will be explained in class.)
- There will be three hour exams given in class
during the semester. The best two scores will each be worth 20% of
your grade. The other will be worth 10% of your grade.
There will be a block final exam for the course on Monday, December
13 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. The final exam will be worth
20% of your grade.
- There will be a small written project for the course, worth 10%
of your grade.
- Opportunities for extra credit will be available; I will
explain these as they arise.
- In addition to the other class requirements, I would like everyone to
have e-mail and web access, and check them regularly. If this is a
problem with anyone, please see me. I will be posting homework
assignments on the web, and also overhead materials from lecture.
- The web page for my sections of Math 103 may be found at
http://www.math.duke.edu/~holden/Math103
.
- Since we only meet three days a week, there is not a lot of time
in this class to discuss homework. If you have any questions that you
would like to ask me about the homework, or anything else (really!
anything!) feel free to e-mail me, come to my office hours, or make
an appointment to see me at some other time.
- There is a help room for Math 103. It operates 6-9 pm,
Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, in Room 136, Carr Building,
starting Sunday, September 5, 1999. Further information on the
help room and on tutoring may be found at
http://www.math.duke.edu/first_year/help.html
.
- Prentice Hall has a web site for our textbook at
http://www.prenhall/edwards
.
The web site has supplementary material for the text. They also
advertise that an on-line tutor is available.
- Late homeworks: Here is how the late homework rules work. If
you give me the homework in class, it is in on time. If you put the
homework in my mailbox in Physics 121 before 5:00 on Wednesday, it
is on time. Do not slide homework under my office door. It
will be stepped on, and then marked late. If you put homework in my
box on Thursday, you might get lucky and I'll count it on time. But
you might not. It depends on whether the grader has taken the
homework home yet. Any late homeworks I will grade personally,
whenever I get around to it. They will receive half credit.
You must put your class meeting time on all late homeworks.
- You are responsible for all material missed during absences from
class.
- If you know in advance that you are going to have to miss an
hour exam, please let me know in writing as soon as possible, preferably
before the second week of classes if you can.
- If you miss an hour exam for unforeseen reasons, you will need a note
from the Dean's office. If you are sick, be warned that you may need to
go to the infirmary in order to get such a note.
- Absences from the final exam need to be handled through the
Dean's office.
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Joshua Holden
11/2/1999