| Professor: | Dr M-G
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| Office: | 202B Love
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| Office hours: | Please
click here.
Office hours are subject to change during the
semester, but current
times are always posted online |
| Phone: | (850 64)42580
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| Email: | mmestert@mailer.fsu.edu
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| Web site: | http://www.math.fsu.edu/~mm-g |
| Goal: | The purpose of this course is to introduce
multivariable calculus and some of its applications |
| Course
page: | http://www.math.fsu.edu/~mm-g/CalcIII.html (this
page—but
obviously, if you are reading a hard copy of it, then you won't be able to
activate the links until you go online) |
| Class meets: | In 102 LOV,
Mondays and Wednesdays 1:25 p.m.—2:15 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 p.m.—3:15 p.m.
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| Text: | Hughes-Hallett et al,
Calculus: Single and Multivariable,2nd edition
(Wiley, 1998), Chapters 11-20 |
| Credit: | 5 semester hours |
| Eligibility: | Is yourresponsibility. You must
have the prerequisites listed below, and must never have completed with a
grade of C- or better a course for which MAC 2313 is a (stated or implied)
prerequisite. Moreover, if you have more than eight hours of prior credit
in college calculus, then you must reduce your credit for MAC 2313
accordingly |
| Prerequisites: |
| (i) | C- or better in MAC 2312 (Calculus with
Analytic Geometry
II) or appropriate transfer credit (satisfactory
completion of at least
eight hours of calculus courses equivalent to MAC 2311 & MAC
2312); and
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| (ii) | self-motivation and industriousness. Dr
M-G's philosophy
of learning is perhaps best expressed by the following
diagram: |
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For further details, please click here. |
| Communication: | It is your responsibility to
register here for a
(free) FSU computer account so that I can send you email, which you are
expected to check regularly. If you prefer to read your email elsewhere
then you can arrange to have messages
forwarded, but you must still obtain an FSU account in the first
instance |
| Your name: | I don't know who you are, but because
everything works so much better when I do, I would like to learn your name
as soon as possible. Please take a sheet of paper, fold it in half, write
your first name in large letters on one side and stand it up on your desk
so that I can see it. (Write whatever you want me to call you—if
you're a William who likes to be called Dubya, write Dubya, not William.)
Please bring your name plate to every class until I have finally learnt
your name (which will take significantly longer than it used to take when I
started out) |
| Course Format: | The course will be based on eighteen
lectures (all available online) interspersed by much interactive problem
solving (on which we'll spend most of our time). The text will serve
primarily as a source of problems. After each period I will set homework
for the following period (usually by email). In class, I will always assume
that you have at least attempted (not necessarily completed) the homework
problems. Questions may be asked at any time (and should be, if there's
anything you don't understand) |
| Test Format: | For a classroom test, begin each question
on a fresh sheet of paper, use one side of the paper only, and staple your
solutions together in order at the end of the examination (do NOT use dog
ears). Similarly, for assignments. (Not owning a stapler is no excuse: for
tests you can borrow mine, and for assignments you can borrow the one in
208 Love.) Needless to say, in either case, your name must appear legibly
on Page 1 |
| Grades: | Will be based on three classroom tests
(15% each), two written assignments (15% each) and a cumulative final
examination (25%). Note that quality of presentation is extremely
important. It is not enough merely to produce an answer: the method by
which you obtain it must be sound, and you must clearly demonstrate that
you understand it. Therefore, there will be penalties (commensurate with
degree of infraction) for bad presentation—which includes bad grammar,
illegibility, incompleteness, incoherence and untidiness—especially on
the written assignments. Even on a classroom test, however, you must show
all necessary steps in your method, with enough comments and/or diagrams to
convince me that you thoroughly understand.
Precise cut-off points for A, B and C will be
determined by the distribution of grades at the end of the semester, but
are likely be in the vicinity of 90%, 80% and 70%, respectively. In
borderline cases, a smaller number of completely correct solutions will
carry more weight than a proportionate number of fragmentary answers; later
test scores will carry more weight than earlier test scores; and a record
of active participation in class will carry more weight than a record of
passive attendance (in that order of relative importance among these three
factors). Within the range for any given letter grade, +/- grades will be
determined not only by the relative distribution, but also by the same
three factors as above (the ones that determine borderline decisions). It
is therefore perfectly conceivable (if perhaps not especially likely) that,
e.g., one of two students with a final average of 90% obtains a grade of A
while the other obtains A-, or one of two students with a final average of
68% obtains a grade of C- while the other obtains D+. Also, please note
that partial credit will be awarded only when part of a solution is
completely correct (not when all of a solution is partially correct,
whatever that means, if anything) |
| Attendance policy: | You are expected to attend class
regularly, and bear the full responsibility for learning anything covered
during any class that you miss |
| Exam policy: | No makeup exams. An absence may be excused
given sufficient evidence of extenuating circumstances (in which case,
extra weight will be attached to the other exams). But you must either
have discussed the matter with me (well) in advance; or, in the
case of illness,
have brought me a note from a physician explicitly stating that you were
too ill to attend class on the day in question. An unexcused absence will
result in a grade of zero |
| Forgiveness policy: | Although there are no makeup exams,
if you have attended regularly, you can obtain a grade of C or C- by
performing sufficiently well on the final examination alone. In this case,
the determining factor is not your final score, but rather whether you are
able to provide practically perfect solutions to a few special problems
requiring mastery of all key topics on the course. Note that C and C- are the
only grades that can be earned this way: it is impossible to obtain an A or
a B by performance on the final alone |
| Etiquette: | You are firmly bound by Florida State
University's Academic Honor Code. Briefly, you
have the responsibility to uphold the highest standards of academic
integrity in your own work, to refuse to tolerate violations of academic
integrity in the University community, and to foster a high sense of
integrity and social responsibility on the part of the University
community. Even more briefly, you must neither cheat nor enable others to
cheat. The penalties for violations can be severe. Please carefully read
the section in the FSU Student Handbook on the Honor Code and official
procedures for dealing with students who violate it. If you are in any
doubt at all as to what constitutes acceptable behavior in this regard, you
should ask me for clarification.
You are also bound by the ordinary rules and
customs of polite behavior that prevail in a civilized society. I assume
that you know these rules and customs, and I expect you to comply with
them. |
| Probable test dates: | Tuesday,
January 29
Tuesday,
February 26
Tuesday,
April 9 |
| Assignments: | It is likely that the two written
assignments will be set during the first halves of February and March,
respectively, and will be due within about 10 days. Needless to say,
assignments must be turned in on time: the normal result of a late
assignment will be a grade of zero |
| Final: | Tuesday, April 23, 5:30
p.m.—7:30 p.m. in 102
LOV |
| How to study: | There is a huge amount of material to be
covered in this course, so it is important that you keep up from the very
beginning, always attempting as many as possible of the homework problems.
I encourage you to form a homework study group with others in the class.
But meet only after each of you individually has attempted at least some of
the problems. If you get stuck, you may find that the Math Help Center can
offer limited help (i.e., some, but not all, of the staffers can help with
Calculus III: opening hours will be posted here as soon as they
are known). Alternatively, send me your question by email. As soon as I
possibly can, which might be as soon as within half an hour, but might also
be as late as a few days later—I have a life, too, you know—I will reply,
not to you, but rather to the class alias (after carefully concealing your
identity, just in case you are inexplicably bashful about being perceived
as smart enough to ask questions). Usually, my email will just be a short
message to the effect that a reply has been posted here |
| Disabilities: | If you have a disability requiring
academic accommodations, then not only should you register with the Student
Disability Resource Center (SDRC),
but also you should bring me written confirmation from SDRC during the
first week of class. This and other class materials are available in
alternative format upon request. |