Math 234 Syllabus — Fall 2013

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Instructor.   Sigurd Angenent.   Office: Van Vleck Hall 609.

Office Hours: Wednesday 12—1pm and Friday, 1pm—2pm.

Lecture time and location. Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9:55am—10:45am, in Van Vleck Hall B102.

Text book, electronic version, and corrections. We follow the course notes that are now on sale in Van Vleck Hall
The pdf and corrections can be found at The UW Madison Calculus Student’s Page

Exams.   There will be two evening midterm exams. Time and location are to be announced soon. There will be no alternate exams.

Bring your student ID to each exam. Calculators and other computing devices will not be allowed on exams in this course.

TAs. There are six TAs associated to this lecture. Their office hours are
Chad Weibel Monday, Wednesday 11am–noon   Van Vleck 101
Rohit Nagpal Tuesdays Thursday 105–205 Van Vleck 818
Peter Mueller Friday 12–2pm Van Vleck 520
Guru Subramani Wednesday 1050– 1250 Van Vleck 101
Lakshmi Priya Tuesday 1230–130
Wednesday 11-12		 Van Vleck 618
Hans Chaumont Monday 5pm–6pm
Thursday 4pm–5pm		 Van Vleck 816

Homework and Quizzes. Homework will be assigned every Friday in lecture, and later posted here. Homework will not be collected, but on every Thursday there will be a quiz in your discussion section on problems similar to those assigend the previous Friday. There will be no make ups for quizzes, but we will drop the lowest quiz score.

Grades. The exams and quizzes contribute to your grade according to the following weights:
Exam 1 25%
Exam 2 25%
Final 35%
Discussion quizzes 15%
Your exam and quiz scores will be added with these weights, which gives you a semester score between 0% and 100%. At the end of the semester we then translate this semester score into a letter grade. We will use the following cutoffs:
F D C BC B AB A
  0–49   50–59   60–69   70–77   78–85   86–91   92–100
These cutoffs are approximate, tentative, and subject to change.