Syllabus
MAA 4212 -- Advanced Calculus 2
Spring 2002--MWF 7th period--Little Hall 125

MAA 4212 home page

Professor David Groisser
418 Little Hall
392-0281 extension 261
groisser@math.ufl.edu

Office Hours: Tentatively Tuesday 4th period, Wednesday 5th period, and Friday 4th period. See my schedule for updates. Please come early in the period or let me know to expect you later. You can also see me by appointment any weekday except Thursday .

Text: Rosenlicht, Introduction to Analysis . This semester I plan to finish Chapter 5 and cover Chapters 6-10. Topics will include: a careful treatment of differentiation and integration of functions of one variable, sequences and series of functions, differentiating of integrals depending on a parameter, the Fundamental Theorem of Ordinary Differential Equations, partial differentiation, the Implicit Function Theorem, and multiple integrals.

Homework: There will be regular homework assignments, due at intervals of from one to two weeks. The length and frequency of assigments will vary. Please see the homework page for rules concerning homework. Assignments will be posted on this page in due course.

I cannot stress strongly enough the importance of the homework. Last semester,

Exams: There will be 2 midterms and a final. All of these will be take-home exams. Probably I will give you 48 hours for the midterms and either 48 or 72 for the final. I plan to give the midterms at approximately 1/3 and 2/3 of the way through the semester.

Grading. The system I plan to use is based on the premise that some people put their best foot forward on homework and some do it on exams. It works as follows:

  1. After each homework or exam, I decide a grade scale for that item according to the philosophy ``A = excellent, B = good, C = satisfactory, D = unsatisfactory but passing''. In setting these cutoffs, I don't have a predetermined grade curve or predetermined percentages for letter grades.
  2. At the end of the semester, I compute a numerical ``raw score'' for each student according to three different weighting schemes:
  3. By applying the same weighting schemes to the cutoffs for exams and homework, I construct three different sets of raw-score grade cutoffs. The homework assignments do not all count equally; longer assignments count more than shorter assignments.
  4. Using these data, I obtain three letter grades for each student. The final grade I assign is the highest of these three.
I think that the weighting schemes above are varied enough to allow every student a reasonable chance to show me his or her best work, while at the same time not allowing anyone to completely throw away low scores that do in fact tell me something. If anyone has another reasonable weighting scheme he or she thinks should be on the list above, I'll consider it, provided it is presented to me early enough. If at the end of the semester, none of the above schemes is giving you the grade you want, that will not be a good enough reason for me to consider another scheme in which your best component is given inordinately high weight and your worst component inordinately low weight.

Attendance. Students are expected to attend every lecture, barring such things as illness, family emergencies, religious holidays of which I am informed in advance.

Student Honor Code: Students are expected to abide by the the Honor Code:

We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honesty and integrity.
On all work submitted for credit by students at the university, the following pledge is either required or implied: "On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment."

Accommodations for students with disabilities: Students requesting classroom accommodation must first register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then provide this documentation to the Instructor when requesting accommodation.

Miscellaneous: Unless I say otherwise, you are responsible for knowing any material I cover in class, any subject covered in homework, and all the material in the textbook chapters we are studying. You are also responsible for the material covered in MAA 4211 and for most of MAC 2311-12-13 or the equivalent. However, remember you should not base any proofs in this class on theorems that were stated but not proved in the lower-level calculus sequence (unless we have previously proved these theorems in MAA 4211-12).

Last update made by D. Groisser Sun Jan 6 16:26:48 EST 2002