COURSE GUIDE
                   Math 240-002, Spring 2009


INSTRUCTOR:
 
Professor Ron Donagi
Office: DRL 4E5 , phone: 898-8465
(email: donagi@math.upenn.edu)
Office hours:
Wed 11:30-12:15, Thu 11:45-12:45

Teaching Assistant:
Charles Siegel
(email: siegelch@math.upenn.edu)
Office: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 4N31
Office Hours: Monday 2-3, Wednesday 2-3, and by appointment. 
Office Phone: 215-898-7621 


TEXTS: 
Zill and Cullen: Advanced Engineering Mathematics.

Maple/Calculus Lab Manual for Math 240/241.



TIME & PLACE:  
Lectures:
	TR 10:30-Noon; DRL A1 
Recitations:
	211 REC W 8:00-9:00AM; DRL 4E19 	
	212 REC W 9:00-10:00AM; DRL 4E19 	
	213 REC F 9:00-10:00 AM; DRL 2C4 	
	214 REC F 10:00-11:00 AM; DRL 2C4 



COURSE GRADE: 
Homework       15%
Quizzes        15%
Midterms       20% each
Final          30%.

       
The quizzes, midterms, and final exam are all closed-book.  Calculators are not allowed. In the
midterms and final, but not in the quizzes, you may use a 'crib sheet', consisting of a 5x8 card of
notes in your own handwriting

NOTE:  Incompletes (I's) cannot be given to avoid F's.


HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:  
 
Each week's assignment will consist of:
  *The relevant core problems,
  *Problems from past final exams, and
  *A Maple assignment. 
In addition, I will occasionally assign some extra credit work from the text, the MAPLE/CALCULUS LAB
MANUAL, and other sources.

You are welcome to work on the homework together with a study group; but you MUST HAND IN YOUR OWN,
INDIVIDUAL WORK, explained in your own words.  Solutions must be written LEGIBLY. (Please be
considerate to your poor, overworked TA who has to read your assignment...)

Homework is due in recitation.  IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU TRY TO FINISH THE HOMEWORK A FEW 
DAYS AHEAD OF TIME.  Then, if you encounter difficulties, you will still have time to obtain help from 
the instructor, the TA, or a tutor.

No late homework assignments will be accepted UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, (again, please be considerate
to your poor, overworked TA), but the two lowest homework grades will be dropped.

CORE PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS FROM PAST FINALS:  Since there is much material to cover in math 115 and more
problems to work through than we have time to cover in lecture or recitation, we have chosen some
core problems to help define the course. The core problems are listed in the LAB MANUAL. A
copy of the list can also be found here.) In addition you will find 
problems from past final exams in the Lab Manual and here.  Together, the core problems and past 
finals define both the
material of the course and the level of difficulty expected.  Your objective is to understand
thoroughly how to solve them and to develop some facility with the underlying mathematics.

Because of the limited time available to the TA, only a couple of problems chosen at random from each
assignment will be graded.  If at the end of the semester you feel that you have been consistently
unlucky in that we always happened to grade the only two problems you did not do, talk to one of us
and we'll see whether we can make some adjustment.


QUIZZES: 
There will be a brief quiz given at the end of each recitation. Missed quizzes cannot be made up, but
the two lowest (or missed) quizzes will be dropped.  The material for each quiz will be taken from
the previous homework assignment, giving you added incentive to do all the homework problems.


MIDTERM EXAMS: 
There will be three midterm exams, common to all sections of the course:

Midterm 1: Thurs. Feb. 12th,  8-9:30pm in DRL A1:   Chapters 8,3:  Matrices, some ODEs, 
Midterm 2: Thurs. March 26th, 8-9:30pm in MEYH B1:  Chap. 3,10,5:  ODEs, Series solutions, systems, 
Midterm 3: Thurs. April 23rd, 8-9:30pm in CHEM 102:   Chapter 9:   Vector calc.



Only your two best midterms will count - we will automatically drop the lowest one (or the one you missed). No 
makeups will be given. If you miss an exam, this will be the one we drop. The midterms will take place on 
Thursday evenings. Please reserve those evenings to avoid time conflicts.


The midterms will be multiple choice, closed book, no calculators, but you may use a 5"x8" cheat
sheet in your own hand writing.  NO MAKE UP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN. 



FINAL:
 

All sections of Math 240 will have a common final exam on Thursday, May 7, 2009, Noon-2PM. 
The final will be multiple choice, closed book, no calculators, but you may use a 5"x8" cheat sheet in your 
own hand writing. If you miss the final or perform poorly for any reason, you may choose to take the makeup
final, which will be given in the beginning of next Fall Term.  In order to do this, you will (of
course!) have to agree (in writing, in advance) to give up the grade you received on the original
exam.  So your score on the makeup exam may bring your course grade either up or down.



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