The course is over! Final grades have been submitted to MySlice. Thanks to everyone for a great semester, and enjoy your summer.

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Basic Info

Instructor

Prof. Graham Leuschke
email: gjleusch@math.syr.edu
AIM: leuschkeg
Yahoo!: graham_leuschke
GTalk: leuschke@gmail
or see below!

Time & Place

MWF 9:30—10:25 in Heroy Auditorium

Textbook

Stewart, Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 6th edition, ISBN 0495011665

Office Hours

MW 1:30—4:00, R 10:30—12:00; by appointment; and any time my door is open (206C Carnegie)

Important documents

syllabus for all sections
supplement to the syllabus for my section

Silliness

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Final Exam

The mean was about 74.8%, and the median was 77.2%. (Does everybody know the difference? The second one means that half of the people who took the test got better than 193/250=77.2%.) This was quite good, as the final was pretty hard.

Exam III

The median was 75 again; the mean was 72. Come to recitation to get your test back.

Exam II

The median was 75, and the mean was about 70.2. There will be no curve. Upon further consideration, I’ve decided to rebate everyone 7 points on this exam as well. Come to lecture to learn more.

Exam I

The exam was about a half-question too long. Accordingly, the grades will be scaled upward by 7 points. With that addition in place, the stats on the exam were as follows.

mean

71.875

median

71

Handouts, Slides, Review Sheets, and Study Guides

• review sheet on power series
• 36 practice series for you to play with
• review sheet for Exam III (go to recitation for the answers)
• Series Convergence/Divergence Flow Chart (from class on 4/6)
• review sheet for Exam II (go to recitation for the answers)
• Surface of Revolution images from 25 February: function, rotated, a different view, with fewer bands, and a single band
• review sheet for Exam I (go to recitation for the answers)
• formulas to know from Calc I (shown in class 1/14)
• algebra/trig review (and here’s a PDF version for printing)

Calculus (and Other) Links

• Taylor polynomial approximations for sin(x)
• a very silly check (click the link at the top for explanation, and trust me that the second term involving e is −1)
• this is the guy who wrote your textbook
• Impossible Stack ZOMG IT’S BLACK MAGIC (also known as the harmonic series diverging)
• Leonhard Euler was the one who first proved that Σ(1/n²) = ²/6. Until he did, computing its exact value was known (for nearly 100 years) as the Basel Problem
• the harmonic series gets its name from the musical connection with harmony.
• the harmonic series diverges again and again (pdf)
• java applet for graphing sequences and their sequences of partial sums
• Medical researcher ‘invents’ integration, gets 75 citations
• graphing polar equations
• Famous Curves and animated demonstrations (ever get Freeth’s Nephroid in your Conchoid of de Sluze?)
• parametric curve applet
• approximating arc length by line segments
• some more improper integral examples
• Gabriel’s Horn
• Beijing celebrates the Mean Value Theorem
• Drill problems on parts, trig substitution, and partial fractions
• apparently calculus was several hundred years older than we thought
• flash demos of average value and the Mean Value Theorem
• some notes on work as an integral
• animated demos of the shell method
• Reading this could save you two days of intense suffering
• At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard (What do you think of the large-lecture format?)
• some animated demos of the washer method
• visualizing the discs approximating a volume of revolution

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