| Math 222, Section 1 | Spring 2019 |
| Text: | Vector Calculus by J. E. Marsden and A. J. Tromba. It is essential to carefully read the relevant sections of the book as we cover them in class; there will be topics from the text that are not discussed in detail in class. The supplement Additional Content for Vector Calculus by Marsden and Tromba also additional proofs, examples, and topics. | ||
| Professor: | Leslie Saper, Physics Building, room 110, 660-2843, saper@math.duke.edu | ||
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, Wednesdays, 11 am – 12 noon, Thursdays, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, and by appointment. You may also e-mail questions to me. Please take full advantage of office hours to resolve questions on course material or homework. | ||
| Lectures: | Tuesday and Thursday, 11:45 am – 1:00 pm, Physics Building, room 235. Attendance is required. Do not be late. Laptops, cell phones, newspapers and other distractions must be put away during lectures. As the term progresses, the actual topics covered each lecture will be posted on our Schedule page. | ||
| Course Grade: | Your final letter grade will be based on homework (15%), two in-class exams (25% each), and the final exam (35%). Excessive unexcused absences may result in the lowering of the final grade for the course by one or more letter grades. | ||
| Homework: | Several problems will be
assigned at the end of each lecture. You must show your
work to receive credit for a problem. Problems assigned Thursday and the following Tuesday will be collected at the beginning of class on the next Thursday (unless noted
otherwise).
On the front page of your homework, please neatly indicate
It is extremely unlikely that you will do well on the exams if you do not carefully and thoughtfully work on the assigned homework problems (at a minimum); problems from the homework may reappear on quizzes and exams. In fact, it would be best to do all problems in the text, not just the small number assigned. You are welcome to see me to check solutions of those you are unsure of. Likewise, once homework is handed in, I will go over in detail the solution to any requested problem during office hours. | ||
| Quizzes: | The possibility of an occasional quiz is not excluded. | ||
| Exams: | There will be two in-class exams. No electronics, notes, or books are permitted. The first exam will be on Thursday, February 14. The date of the second exam will be Tuesday, March 26. | ||
| Final Exam: | The final exam will be Mondau, April 29th, 9 am – noon, in the Physics Building, room 235. No electronics, notes, or books are permitted. | ||
| Written Work: | All submitted work (homework, quizzes, and exams) should be written neatly and legibly; instead of erasing please use a single line crossout. Multiple page submissions must be stapled before class or they will be returned ungraded. You must show all your work to receive credit for a problem. For proofs it is advisable to write in complete sentences; the logic must be must be completely clear for full credit. | ||
| Missed Work: | Late homework will not be accepted and missed quizzes and exams may not be made up except in four situations where an accommodation may be possible: personal emergencies or tragedies, an incapacitating illness, a religious holiday, or varsity athletic participation. Please visit these web-pages now to familiarize yourself with the procedures that must be followed. All excused missed work, homework and exams, must be made up. | ||
| Calculators: | You can use a computational aid for the homework but it is not advisable: calculators and computers (and your smart phone is a computer) are not allowed on quizzes, in-class exams, and the final exam. | ||
| Sources of help: | There is no Help Room for 222; after reviewing your notes from lectures, working through the text, and discussing the material with classmates, the best source of help is attending office hours, ideally with questions prepared in advance. For more general help, the Academic Resource Center (ARC) offers free services to all students during their undergraduate careers at Duke. Services include Learning Consultations, Peer Tutoring and Study Groups, ADHD/LD Coaching, Outreach Workshops, and more. Because learning is a process unique to every individual, they work with each student to discover and develop their own academic strategy for success at Duke. Undergraduates in any year, studying any discipline can benefit. The ARC is located at 211 Academic Advising Center Building, East Campus behind Marketplace. Contact them to schedule an appointment. Web: arc.duke.edu, e-mail: theARC@duke.edu, call: 919-684-5917. | ||
| Ethics: | Students are expected to adhere to the Duke
Community Standard.
You must reaffirm your committment to these standards on all
work. The policies that implement the principles of the Duke Community
Standards can be explored in
The
Duke Community Standard in Practice: A Guide for Undergraduates.
You may (and indeed are encouraged to) discuss issues raised by the class or the homework problems with your fellow classmates and both offer and receive advice. However submitted homework must be written up in your own words without consulting anyone else's written solution; you must acknowledge any collaboration. You may also consult sources other than the text to clarify the material, however it is not acceptable to search for solutions to problems on the homework from other texts, online sources, or from previous semesters' materials. For quizzes, in-class exams, and the final exam, you must work completely independently without collaboration with others and without consulting notes or books. In a case of academic dishonesty that is resolved directly through a faculty-student resolution agreement approved by the Office of Student Conduct, the terms of that agreement will dictate the grading response to the activity at issue. If a student is found responsible through the Office of Student Conduct for academic dishonesty on a graded activity in this course, and the infraction is not resolved by a faculty-student resolution agreement, then the student will receive a score of zero for that activity, and the instructor reserves the right to further reduce the final grade for the course by one or more letter grades, possibly to a failing grade. | ||
| Class Web Page: | The official source of information for this class
(outside of lecture) is the web page,
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