Syllabus
Math 227 Calculus IV
Instructor: Sharon Wiest
Office: Wenatchi Hall, Room 2232
Office Phone: 682-6745
E-Mail: swiest@wvc.edu
Website: www.wenval.cc/swiest
Office Hours: 12:00-12:50 Monday through Friday or by appointment
Text: Calculus, 6E, Stewart
Goal: TO FINISH THE BOOK! (Actually, just through chapter 17) This course covers vectors and vector calculus, analytic geometry in three dimensions using rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinate systems, three dimensional functions and their limits, derivatives and partial derivatives, directional derivatives, gradients, maxima, minima and saddle points in three-space, Lagrange multipliers, integrals in three space using different coordinate systems, vector fields, line integrals, potential and conservation fields, Green’s theorem in plane, Stoke’s theorem, and the Divergence Theorem.
Homework: Every other odd problem unless specified. I will often be giving more specific and tailored assignment.
Grades: Grades will be based on an average of test, and project scores. There will be 4 in-class exams and five to six take-home projects.
Grading Scale: ³93 90 87 83 80 77 73 70 67 63 60 <60
A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- F
This course moves very quickly. Please feel free to come to my office hours or schedule a time to get together with me if you have questions. Any take-home projects can be done in conjunction with others, but I will ask each person to turn in a paper of their own. Because of the nature of this course, I will be collecting grading, and returning projects prior to the in-class exam so in-class exams are scheduled several days after I finish lecturing on the material. We will start a couple of sections in the next chapter in the mean time. Please try to do some problems from the current section every night.
Some of the work this quarter may be made easier with 3-D graphing utilities like Maple (college server), Deriveâ for your home computer or use of a TI-89 or TI-92. The tutor center should have TI-92 calculators for your use. Feel free to search the web for a good 3-D grapher. We will discuss in class our latest findings.
Projected Test Dates: Chapters 13 and 14 test: 10/6
Chapter 15 test: 10/24
Chapter 16 test: 11/16
Chapter 17 – Final on 12/10 at 8:00 – 10:00 AM
NO CELL PHONES ON IN CLASS!!! Dire consequences (like bringing donuts for the class- if violation is during class, or flunking the exam- if violation is during an exam).