Professor: W. Stephen Wilson, Krieger 421, wsw@math.jhu.edu
Textbook: Calculus for Biology and Medicine, Third Edition, Claudia Neuhauser. ISBN 13: 978-0-321-64468-8.
All registration issues such as getting into the class or changing sections are handled by the the registrar or the math dept. The teaching assistants and I are not allowed to sign anything in this regard. Go to the Registrar for the first 2 weeks. After that, go to Sabrina Raymond in the math dept and she can help you. You will get into the course.
Here is a page of useful supportive materials for the course, things like how to study math etc. It has grown and become cluttered so I wanted to get it off the main page.
One of the things on that page is the following: One of the problems many students have is that they don't really know how to study since doing well came easy in K-12, or, because the K-12 environment is not quite the same as here in college (notice?). Anyway, here are some study tips.
Anyone interested in and/or in need of tutoring in Calculus II should take a look at the tutoring webpage for Academic Advising.
While we are doing abnormal things, a recent JHU grad has wrtten an app for Academic Advising. to keep track of grades, due dates, etc.
On the flip side of this, here is a paid tutoring opportunity for students like you.
Short syllabus for Calc I, 106. I highly recommend that you look this over carefully and make sure that you know all of it because it is all a prerequisite for the course. Take this seriously. I will assume that you know everything in the syllabus for 106 (Calc I). If you didn't have a semester of trig in high school, think seriously about learning a bit more trig quickly before class starts.
I gave an exam the first day of class last year and wrote it up. There are probably some interesting lessons for you in this.
Short syllabus for Calc II, 107.
Syllabus and General facts of life for the course for the Fall of 2014. Read all of this very carefully.
Weekly homework, reading assignments, and general announcements will be here.
I will try to post the reading assignments for Friday and next week's Monday and Wednesday, and the homework for this week's MWF lectures, due next week Tuesday or Thursday, on Wednesdays late (i.e. before midnight).
For this first week of class I suggest you do the obvious and take a close hard look at the syllabus for Calculus I above and make sure you know that stuff cold. Then read the sections in the first part of our syllabus, i.e. 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, etc.
There are 3 Khan Academy videos on improper integrals: Number 1. Number 2. Number 3.
There are 4 Khan Academy videos on elementary differential equations, including separable differential equations. I don't know if they cover equilibrium, but I'd be surprised if they do. Number 1. Number 2. Number 3. Number 4.
There are 3 Khan Academy videos on just solving linear equations of the sort we start with in 9.1. Number 1. Number 2. Number 3.
There are 3 Khan Academy videos on matrix multiplication. Number 1. Number 2. Number 3.
If you hunt around on my video website you might find some relevant problems solved. Almost everything there is linear algebra.
The first exam went very well. The average was 33.65 out of 50 for the 96 who took it. You need it for your homework assignment, so here it is. For more information, you can see the class distribution.
There are a number of possibly relevant Khan Academy videos for Chapter 10. Number 1. Number 2. Number 3. Number 4.
Our Exam # 2 went well. You need it for your homework Thursday. Once again I am impressed with how well the class did. 2 got perfect scores of 51 and 3 got 50. The median was 30 and the average was 31.43. I seem to be unable to get the average below 60% with this class. I suppose that's a really good thing. Should make your homework assignment really easy. Here is a graph of the distribution of the scores on the exam.
If you have any confusion about this elementary probability and statistics that the lectures or the book don't clear up, there are more Khan Academy videos than you can shake a stick at on the subject. He is charming and covers the material with lots of examples. Watch them to your heart's content.
Thinking ahead to the final, last year one of the TAs made up a really great practice final. He also made solutions. In addition, if you go to last year's website, you can see last year's final, without solutions. As you know if you have talked to me, don't look at the solutions. Work the practice final and last year's final under time pressure. Study what you didn't know, and do it again the next day.
Our Final had a class average (for 96) students of 67.87 out of 102. The high was 96 (2 of them). 7 students got all 3 of the hard hemophilia problems and I'm happy to say they all got A's. (Unlike last year.)
The scores are graphed here.