Math 107, Calculus II (Biological and Social Sciences)
Spring 2020

Course Information

• Cristian Gavrus
• Email: cgavrus1@jhu.edu
• Office: 313 Krieger Hall
• Office hours: Mondays 15 - 16 pm
                        Fridays   12 - 13 pm,   or by appointment

• MWF 11:00 - 11:50 am in Krieger 205

•  C. Neuhauser, M. Roper   Calculus for Biology and Medicine, 4th edition.

We will cover chapters 7 – 12 of the textbook. The syllabus

There will be two midterm exams and a final exam:

• 1st midterm exam: Wednesday, February 26: in Shaffer 301 (sections 1,3 TA: Lili) and in Krieger 205 (sections 2,4 TA: Jin)
• 2nd midterm exam: Wednesday, April 1: in Shaffer 301 (sections 1,3 TA: Lili) and in Krieger 205 (sections 2,4 TA: Jin)
• Final exam: Monday, May 11, 9 AM - 12 PM

Exams are closed book, closed notes. There will be no make-up exams. For excused absences, the grade for a missed exam will be calculated based on your performance on all remaining exams. To be excused from an exam, you have to provide documentation and a valid excuse. Unexcused absences count as 0.

The course grade will be determined as follows:

• Homework: 10%
• 2 Midterm exams: 50% total
• Final exam: 40%

Homework:

Homework based on each week's lectures will be posted in the course schedule below. The HW will be handed on stapled sheets of paper during the recitation section to your T.A. (not to me). You will receive your graded homework back from your section teaching assistant the following week. No late homework will be accepted. If you absolutely cannot make it to class, arrange for someone else to hand it in for you. However, you may miss up to two homework assignments without grade penalty, as the lowest two homework scores will be dropped from the final grade calculation.

In order to master the material of the course, it is key that you do your homework. You should make every effort to solve the assigned problems using the concepts learned from the lectures and readings. You will be graded mostly on your ability to work problems on exams. If you have not practiced the techniques within the homework problems, you will have serious difficulties to work problems on exams. You are strongly encouraged to do your homework in groups. However, you must write up your solutions on your own. Copying is not acceptable.

You are responsible for lecture notes, any course material handed out, and attendance in class. I will not formally record your attendance, but you are encouraged to come to lectures. By attending lectures you will get a sense of what I consider important and that should help you know what to focus on when you study for the exams.

No cell phones and no computers are allowed during the lecture, except for note taking.

Besides attending the lectures and the recitation sections I encourage you to use the following opportunities for additional academic support:

• Come to my office hours and to your section's teaching assistant's office hours.
• Go to the math helproom in Krieger 213. The hours are 9:00-21:00 on Monday through Thursday and 9:00-17:00 on Friday. This free service is a very valuable way to get one-on-one help on the current material of the class from other students outside the course. It is staffed by graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
• Participate in the PILOT learning program. It is a peer-led-team learning program. Students are organized into study teams consisting of 6-10 members who meet weekly to work problems together. A trained student leader acts as captain and facilitates the meetings.
• Learning Den - small tutoring sessions on Wednesdays from 5-6:30pm in Gilman - sign up for a session online or they can do a walk-in and sign up in Gilman right before the session - xcalder2@jhu.edu

Check out the following JHU webpage with information about academic support and tutoring.

Special Aid:
Students with disabilities who may need special arrangements within this course must first register with the Office of Academic Advising. I will need to have received confirmation from the Office of Academic Advising. To arrange for testing accomodations please remind me at least 7 days before each of the midterms or final exam by email.

JHU Ethics Statement:

The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity. In this course, you must be honest and truthful. Cheating is wrong. Cheating hurts our community by undermining academic integrity, creating mistrust, and fostering unfair competition. The university will punish cheaters with failure on an assignment, failure in a course, permanent transcript notation, suspension, and/or expulsion. Offenses may be reported to medical, law, or other professional or graduate schools when a cheater applies.

Violations can include cheating on exams, plagiarism, reuse of assignments without permission, improper use of the internet and electronic devices, unauthorized collaboration, alteration of graded assignments, forgery and falsification, lying, facilitating academic dishonesty, and unfair competition. Ignorance of these rules is not an excuse.

In this course, as in many math courses, working in groups to study particular problems and discuss theory is strongly encouraged. Your ability to talk mathematics is of particular importance to your general understanding of mathematics. You should collaborate with other students in this course on the general construction of homework assignment problems. However, you must write up the solutions to these homework problems individually and separately. If there is any question as to what this statement means, please ask the instructor.

Check Blackboard regularly for course materials and other information.

Some Guidelines for Good Mathematical Writing:
I recommend this guide by Francis Edward Su.

Sections

Section #	Time	Room	TA	Email	Office hours
1	Th 1:30-2:20	Bloomberg 176	Lili He	lhe31@jhu.edu	Mon 1:30pm-2:30pm & Wed 1:30pm-2:30pm
2	T 3:00-3:50	Gilman 17	Jin Zhou	Jzhou39@jhu.edu	Tuesday 5:30 - 6:30 pm
3	Th 3:00-3:50	Gilman 55	Lili He	lhe31@jhu.edu	Mon 1:30pm-2:30pm & Wed 1:30pm-2:30pm
4	T 4:30 -5:20	Hodson 301	Jin Zhou	Jzhou39@jhu.edu	Tuesday 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Course Schedule

Here is a tentative schedule for the course. It will be updated as we go. It is strongly recommended that you read the relevant sections of the textbook before and/or after each lecture.

#	Week	Topics and Sections	Homework (from the book, 4th edition)
1	Jan 27, 29, 31	§7.1 §7.2 §7.4	No homework due 1st week.
2	Feb 3, 5, 7	§7.4, §8.1	7.1:   3, 6, 16, 22, 32, 43 7.2:   2, 20, 22, 24
3	Feb 10, 12, 14	§8.1, §8.2, §9.1	7.4:   2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 28, 34 8.1:   2, 6, 14, 18
4	Feb 17, 19, 21	§9.1, §9.2, §9.3	8.1:   8, 16, 30, 32 8.2:   2, 6, 14, 16, 80, 84
5	Feb 24, 26, 28	§9.3, §9.5 1st midterm on Wednesday in class	9.1:   10, 12, 20, 22, 30, 32 9.2:   2, 14, 22, 28, 32, 42, 44
6	Mar 2, 4, 6	§9.5, §10.1	9.1:   6, 16, 24 9.2:   46, 54, 62, 66 9.3: 7, 10, 18
7	Mar 9, 11, 13	§10.2, §10.3, §10.4	9.3:   4, 12, 20, 23, 24, 42, 44, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60 9.5:   2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 24, 26, 28
8	Mar 16-22	Spring break	No homework
9	Mar 23, 25, 27	§10.4, §10.5.1, §10.6, §10.7.1
10	Mar 30, Apr 1, 3	§10.7.1, §11.1 2nd midterm on Wednesday in class
11	Apr 6, 8, 10	§11.1, §11.2.3
12	Apr 13, 15, 17	§12.1, §12.2
13	Apr 20, 22, 24	§12.3, §12.4
14	Apr 27, 29 May 1	§12.5
		Last sections practice problems: