Instructor:
Dr.
Wing Suet Li
Office: Rm 215, Tel 03-87-20-39-32.
Office hours: W, 2:00-3:00, Th: 10:00 - 11:00, or by appointment.
1. Material to be covered: Review of vector calculus and and its application to partial differential equations Topic Outline .
2. Textbook:
Advanced Engineering Mathematics (4th ed.), by Dennis G. Zill and Warren S. Wright, 2011, Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
References:
3. Meeting times and locations.
T, W: 11:00 - 12:30 Yellow Room
4. Homework and reading assignments.
Weekly reading and homework assignments will be posted on the Assignments website. Doing homework and completing the reading assignment are essential in learning the material. The homework will be collected and selected problems will be graded. The material of the exams is very similar to the homework assignments.
Collaboration, study groups etc. are encouraged when you work through the reading and the problem assignments. However when you turn in your homework assignment, it should be written by yourself and it is absolutely necessary to know how to do the problems by yourself alone. The tests are individual activities. Collaboration or usage of unauthorized aid (book, notes etc) will result in zero grade for the whole test.
5. Tests.
There will be two one-hour tests in class. The final is comprehensive. The tests and the final are obligatory. Make-ups will be available only for very serious reasons (e.g. documented health reason). In case you have a foreseeable serious reason to miss any of the tests, please let me know about it in advance.
Test Dates| Test I | Feb. 13 |
| Test II | Apr. 3 (tentative) |
| Final Exam | TBA (during the week of Apr. 29 - May 3) |
6. Attendance. Attendance of the lectures is required. The tests and the final are obligatory. Failure to take a test with the class will result in a 0; exceptions to this policy will be made only for very serious reasons (e.g., documented health reason). In case you have a foreseeable serious reason to miss any of the tests, please inform me well in advance.
7. Calculators. No restrictions will be placed on the use of calculators that do elementary mathematics on the tests and final exam. The use of calculators that can do calculus symbolically or matrix operations are not allowed on the tests and final exam. No credit will be given for a correct answer without the intermediate steps.
8. Cell phones/laptops. Please silence all cell phones/pagers/ipods before entering class. There is NO need to turn on your labtops during lectures. However, if you cannot function without laptops turning on, you are asked to sit in the last 2 rows of the classroom.
9. Grading.
| Tests | 40% |
| Homework: | 30% |
| Final Exam | 30% |
The final letter grades will be based on the overall average at the end of the semester, according to the following scheme: 85% or above -- at least an A, 75% or above -- at least a B, 68% or above -- at least a C, 58% or above -- at least a D, below 50% -- F. I may "curve up" from the 85, 75, 68, 58 cut-offs, but scores below 50 will not be curved up to pass.
10. HONOR CODE: All students are expected to comply with Georgia Tech Honor Cod. Please review the studetn code of conduct and the Honor Code .