Wim Ruitenburg's Spring 2022 MATH 2450-101

Last updated: February 2022
Comments and suggestions: Email wim.ruitenburg@marquette.edu

OBJECTIVES: Develop spatial thinking skills in order to better analyze functions of more than one real variable. Reinforce and deepen the knowledge acquired in MATH 1450 and MATH 1451, particularly techniques and applications of differentiation and integration. Extend knowledge acquired in MATH 1450 and MATH 1451 to the multivariable domain. Increase the ability to handle abstraction. Encounter three or more variables within a single problem. Provide techniques to visualise objects and trajectories in two and three dimensional space. Provide techniques, knowledge, and mathematical tools to understand, analyze, and discuss in a quantitative manner multidimensional physical, biological, financial, or similar processes
CLASS PLACE AND TIME: CU 001, MWF 8
INSTRUCTOR: Wim Ruitenburg
OFFICE HOURS: By appointment (people can stop me in the halls too, and see whether I have time to answer a question). Office CU 384
PREREQUISITES: MATH 1451 or equivalent.
BOOK: Hughes-Hallett et al, Calculus, Single and Multivariable, 7th Edition (or: the three-part edition of the same)
CALCULATOR: In-class demonstrations use the TI-Nspire CX CAS. Students are expected to have a calculator with CAS ability.
SOFTWARE ACCESS: Wiley Plus (you only have to purchase this ONCE during the whole calculus sequence).
The link towards student access appears to start here.

GRADES will be determined by performance on exams and on homework problems.

There will be three exams: EX1, EX2, and EX3. Each exam is worth 10 points. Final score: We add the top two scores, plus half of the lowest score. Example: Someone has scored 9, 5, 7. Then the final score from the three exams is 9 + 2.5 + 7 = 18.5. In case of inclement weather during finals week, the final EX3 will be canceled and grades calculated on the basis of the coursework the student has completed up to the cancellation.
There will be quiz problems, about once a week. Participation is required. The up to 5 grade points from the quiz section will be used to adjust the final grade.
Participation in Wiley Plus earns 4 further points. In what way will be determined by how well this internet package works with the course.

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ATTENDANCE POLICY: You are expected to attend all classes for their full periods.
MAKEUP OF MISSED WORK: Makeup of missed work that contributes to your final grade for reasons of absence not automatically recognized by Marquette University: My policy is NO, but then again I tend to give everybody a chance to make up work once.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: See the undergraduate bulletin.

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