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.
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 two years ago and wrote it up. There are probably some interesting lessons for you in this. Look closely at problems 4 and 5 and think about it. Also, if you didn't get a 5 on the AP AB calculus test, you had better be sure that you could have. We find that anyone with the equivalent of a 4 has no chance of ever getting an A, even though there are plenty of A grades.
Short syllabus for Calc II, 107.
Syllabus and General facts of life for the course for the Fall of 2015. 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).
There are 3 Khan Academy videos on improper integrals: Number 1. Number 2. Number 3.
Some Khan Academy videos on elementary differential equations, including separable differential equations. Number 1. Number 2.
Khan keeps changing his links, so poke around and find more if you want.
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. You need it for your homework assignment, so here it is.
The class average was 33.14 and the median was 35.
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. Once again I am impressed with how well the class did. The median was 41 out of 50 and the average was 38.63. 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.
In case you hadn't noticed, the final exam was very very hard. As a consequence, the class average of 74.35 is to be considered pretty good. The median was 72 and the standard deviation, now that you know what that is, was 24.92. The high was 141 and the low was 22. Here is a graph of the distribution of the scores on the exam. Here is a copy of the final exam for future reference.