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Instructor: Dr. Robert Myers, Professor of Mathematics
Office: 429 Mathematical Sciences
Phone: 744-5792 (my office), 744-5688 (Mathematics Department office, for
leaving messages)
Email: myersr@math.okstate.edu
World Wide Web Homepage: http://www.math.okstate.edu/~myersr
Office Hours: MTWR 10:15-11:00 AM, or by appointment
Text: Vector Calculus, 5th Edition, by
Jerrold E. Marsden and Anthony J. Tromba.
The Study Guide by Karen Pao and Frederick Soon, which contains summaries
of the material and detailed solutions to selected problems, is optional.
We will cover most sections of
the book and, as time permits, some additional topics from outside the book.
Notes and exercises on such supplemental material would be
available on the course Web page.
Quizzes and Homework: There will be regular quizzes
(closed book and closed notes, unless otherwise indicated).
Homework will be assigned, but it will not be collected or graded.
Nevertheless, it is
extremely important that you work on the homework problems; the
quizzes will consist of similar problems.
Exams: There will be three 75 minute examinations.
Unless otherwise indicated, exams will be closed book, closed notes.
Grading: Each regular exam is graded on a 100 point scale and counts
30% of your total course score. There is no final exam. There is no curving of exam scores.
The quizzes may be graded on different
point scales. At the end of the semester your total quiz
score will be adjusted to a 100 point scale as follows. A certain number of
quiz points will be dropped from the actual maximum possible number of points to
obtain a certain ``perfect score''. For example, if the actual maximum possible number
of quiz points were 150, and if 30 points were dropped, then the ``perfect score''
would be 120. You will then be assigned the percentage (up to 100) of this ``perfect
score'' that you have earned. Continuing with our example,
if you earned 90 quiz points, then your total quiz percentage would be
75 (90 out of 120) instead of 60 (90 out of 150). If, in this example, you earned 120 or more
quiz points then you would receive the maximum of 100. The number you are assigned
will then count 10% of your total course score.
The following formula will give you a total course score which is some number out of
1000.
Partial Credit: On quizzes there will be very little, if any, partial
credit. On exams the amount of partial credit will depend primarily on how much
of a problem you do correctly. On both quizzes and exams it is extremely important
that you write down all of the steps involved in getting your final answer, not
just the final answer by itself, in order to get credit.
Blue Books: You must provide me with three BLANK blue books
(small size).
Do not put your name on them. Blue books with anything written on,
crossed or whited out, or erased will not be accepted. Five points
will be deducted from each exam score until the blue books are
provided, at which time the points will be restored.
Online Materials: Some items for this course will be made
available on the Web. These will be in two different locations.
The Math Department course homepage
http://www.math.okstate.edu/~myersr/4013.html will contain
announcements (such as upcoming quizzes and exams),
reviews for exams, supplementary notes and exercises, and links to
vector calculus resources on the Web. The Desire 2 Learn course
homepage will contain solutions to quizzes and exams. You will need to
login to your D2L account at https://oc.okstate.edu to access this
material.
Computer Software and MLRC: Your understanding of the material in this course
may be enhanced by the use of software for graphing. This is particularly true for
three dimensional graphing. There are also some lengthy computations, such as those of
multiple integrals, which can be made easier by the use of symbolic mathematics programs.
One program which handles both of these tasks is Maple. It is available on the computers
in the Mathematics Learning Resource Center (on the fourth floor of the Classroom Building)
as well as in various computer labs around campus.
Some other packages which are relevant to this course are Derive, Mathematica, and Matlab.
Some graphing calculators also have some of these abilities.
You are not required to use such software, but I urge you to
familiarize yourself with it. In particular, it is an excellent way to check your
homework. The MLRC phone number is 744-5818.
Electronic Device Usage: Unless otherwise indicated
the use of calculators, computers, cell phones, or
other electronic devices will be not be permitted during quizzes and exams.
Makeups: The procedure described earlier of dropping a certain number of
quiz points to obtain a ``perfect score'' is the official mechanism for dealing with
missed quizzes. Therefore, there will be no makeups for missed quizzes,
no matter what the reason why the quizzes were missed.
Makeups for exams will be given only for serious and unavoidable reasons.
You should try if at all possible to contact me before the
regularly scheduled exam time.
These makeup exams may be somewhat harder than the original exams.
Incomplete Grade: The grade of `I' is given to students who
satisfactorily completed the majority of the course work and whose
work averages `D' or better, but who have been unavoidably
prevented from completing the remaining work of the course. The conditions,
including appropriate time limits, for the removal of the `I' are
indicated on the official class roll by the instructor. A condition that
the students must repeat the course in order to remove the `I' is not
permitted. The maximum time allowed for a student to remove an `I' is
one calendar year.
Further Information: For information on dropping or withdrawing, academic integrity policies, disability services, and other sources of help or information please see the OSU Summer 2009 syllabus attachment. It is available online at http://osu.okstate.edu/acadaffr/aa/pdf%20files/sylatsu.pdf