18.01: Single Variable Calculus - Fall 2008

Professor:	Ben Brubaker (office 2-267, email `brubaker@math.mit.edu`) Office hours: Tuesday 11-12, Thursday 10-12, or by appointment.
Lectures:	Tuesday and Thursday 1-2, Friday 2-3, in 54-100. Recitations
Textbooks:	George F. Simmons, Calculus with Analytic Geometry, 2nd edition. 18.01 Supplementary Notes and Problems, available from CopyTech, the copy center in Building 11.

Latest Announcements

12/07/08 -	Office hours for the week and a half before the final exam will be on a different schedule. The most up-to-date information and times are available on the exam info page.
12/03/08 -	Additional office hours on Thursday (December 4) will be held from 5-6 pm in 2-255.
12/03/08 -	Ivan Losev's office hours Thursday (December 4) have been cancelled. As always, students should feel free to attend the office hours of any of the other TAs.
11/24/08 -	There will be no recitation Wednesday, November 26. Have a good Thanksgiving.
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Recitations

Recitations meet Mondays and Wednesdays, times posted on door of 2-108. Recitations begin on Wednesday, September 3.

Default recitation sections are assigned by the Registrar. You may change your recitation and view your grades on Course Grade Management.

Homework and Collaboration

Homework will be posted weekly in the Problem Sets section of the class website.

Problem sets are due each Friday at 1:45pm in 2-106 and will be returned in recitation. The first unexcused late homework score will be multiplied by 3/4. No subsequent unexcused late homework is accepted. All late homework (excused or not) must include a signed statement certifying that you have not looked at posted solutions or discussed them with anyone.

Collaboration with other people in the class on the homework is allowed, but

Attempt each part of each problem yourself. Read each portion of the problem before asking for help. If you don't understand what is being asked, ask for help interpreting the problem and then make an honest attempt to solve it.
Write up each problem independently. On both Part A and B exercises, you may work together, so long as you write the names of classmates with whom you consulted and do the final write up of your solutions on your own.

This course has a long tradition at MIT, with a large portion of the exercises repeated from year to year. You should not consult these materials in preparing your problem set solutions. Failure to follow these rules will be treated as an act of academic dishonesty and could lead to the invocation of administrative disciplinary action.

Tutoring

Tutoring help is available in 2-102, Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs, 3-5 and 7:30-9:30 pm.

Exams

The course will have four in-class 50-minute exams and a three-hour final exam. See Syllabus for dates.

If you miss or fail an exam, you may take a make-up exam in 2-102 at certain arranged times. You will be notified by e-mail soon after taking an exam if you have failed it, so that you can plan for the make-up. Make-ups for failed exams can boost your grade only up to the lowest passing score (C-), which will be announced. Make-ups for full credit are permitted with a medical excuse. If you must be absent for other reasons, such as team sports, you must arrange to be excused in advance in 2-108.

Grading

Approximate weighting: problem sets 25%, exams 45%, final 30%.

Questions

Concerns about homework, grading, exams: see your recitation instructor.

Checking grade records, changing recitations: online on Course Grade Management.

Last updated Tuesday, 09-Dec-2008 09:07:43 EST