Math 31B-2

This is a copy of the original website for this course, which I taught at UCLA in 2014. All of the contact information below is out of date.

Math 31B-2: Calculus II, Lecture 2

Winter 2014

Instructor:	Kristen Hendricks
Office:	6617D Math Sciences Building
Office Hours:	M 12:30-2:00 W 1:00-2:30 [Priority to this class on M.]
E-Mail:	hendricks at math .ucla .edu

This class has three TAs. You can find your TA's e-mail address on ccle. Their office hours are:

Vivian Josie Bailey	MS 3915C, WR 12:00--1:00
Joseph Hughes	MS 3965, W 2:30--3:30
Dimitrios Ntalampekos	MS 3975, W 12:00--1:00

A printable copy of the syllabus is here.

Location and Time

MWF 11-11:50, Franz 1178. There are six sections, meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays, see times and places on myUCLA.

Content

This is the second quarter of a standard course in calculus. In this course we will cover transcendental functions, methods and applications of integration, and infinite sequences and series.

Textbook

J. Rogawski, Single Variable Calculus , (2nd Edition), W.H. Freeman & Company, 2012. Please make sure you have the correct edition, as the exercises differ between editions.

Prerequisites

Math 31A with a grade of C- or better.

Homework and Quizzes

Homework will be assigned weekly and not collected. Instead, there will be a quiz in section every week (excluding the first week) consisting of one problem taken directly from the homework. No make-up quizzes will be given, but your lowest quiz score will be dropped in computing your grade.

Exams

There will be two in-class midterms, tentatively scheduled for Monday, January 27 and Monday, February 24. There will also be a final exam Wednesday March 19, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Make-up exams should generally not be needed given the grading system, and will only be given in cases of religious holidays. Please note that the university requires that a student who does not attend the final exam and does not have a documented explanation for the absence be given a failing grade in the course.

Regrades

Requests for regrades of quizzes and midterms will be considered up to fourteen days after the graded work is returned. Please make sure to look over your graded work carefully before the time limit passes.

Grading

Grades will be recorded throughout the quarter using the myUCLA gradebook facility. Your grade will be computed according to one of the following schemes (whichever is higher):

Quizzes: 10%, Midterms 1 & 2: 25% each, Final: 40%
or
Quizzes: 10%, Highest Midterm: 30%, Final: 60%

The resulting numerical grade will be converted into a letter grade based on class ranking, using the department guidelines for the distribution of grades in this class.

Enrollment

Enrollment questions should be addressed to the Mathematics Department Undergraduate Advising Office. You can find them in MS 6356, or contact them at ugrad@math.ucla.edu . They will try to help if you are having scheduling trouble.

Questions and Getting Help

For mathematical questions, you are encouraged to come to office hours with me or your TA. You may also find the Student Math Center in MS 3974 helpful. Their hours are here.

Because this is a very large course, if you have a logistical question, the best thing to do is to check the syllabus/website, then e-mail or talk to your TA, and then get in contact with me if you still have questions. This helps ensure that at such time as you have an issue that really needs to be dealt with by me, I will have the attention and time to handle it for you.

Schedule

We will follow the sequence of topics in the official course description here.

In the printable copy of the syllabus you can find the tentative week-by-week schedule, complete with actual dates.

Homeworks

Exam Materials

Here are two sample first midterms given in previous iterations of this course: Sample First Midterm 1. Solutions. Sample First Midterm 2. Solutions. Please note that these are not an exact match for our course -- we didn't cover annuities, and question 5 on the second exam deals with material that won't be on this midterm.

Here are the solutions to the first midterm.

Here are two sample second midterms given in previous iterations of this course: Sample Second Midterm 1. Solutions. Sample Second Midterm 2. Solutions. Please note that these are not an exact match for our course -- on the first sample midterm, you should skip question 1 for now, and on the second you should skip 1(b) and 5(c).

Here are the solutions to the second midterm.

Here are three practice finals given in previous iterations of this course. (You should also go back to question 1 on the Sample Second Midterm 1). Practice Final 1. Solutions. Practice Final 1. Solutions. Practice Final 1. Solutions.