Instructor's office hours: M 3-4 and WF 1-2 in MS 7919

Teaching Assistants: Luke Cherveny, William Conley and Ernie Esser.

TA office hours: Luke, Th 10-11 in MS6617A; Will, M 11-12 in MS 6160; Ernie, W 10-11 in MS2344.

Text: Most of chapters 6,7,8,9 and 12 of Calculus, 5th ed., by J. Stewart. We will cover roughly the departmental outline. Note: This is not the book by Stewart that was used last year for Math 31B. That book contained only single variable material. Our text for this quarter contains both single and multivariable material. It will be used for Math 32AB as well when you take them later this year.

Discussion sections: The discussion sections are conducted by the teaching assistant, and are an integral part of the course. The TA will discuss the homework that has been assigned and related material. The discussion sections provide an opportunity to have your questions answered on a more personal basis and at greater length than is possible in the lecture. There will often be aspects of solutions to exercises that you will not have considered. You should take advantage of the chance to ask questions that go beyond the particular problems that were assigned that week. Even though we will not have covered much material yet, the first week discussion sections will meet for the entire period. The teaching assistants will discuss some extra problems related to the material covered in Math 31A in the Thursday sections on Sept. 30.

Quizzes: There will be seven quizzes during the quarter. They will be given during the last 15 minutes of the discussion sections. They cannot be made up if missed. In them, you will be asked to do problems similar to the homework assigned during the previous several lectures (but not the most recent lecture). The way missed quizzes will be handled is explained under grading below. For those students in Tuesday discussion sections, the quizzes will be on October 12 and 26, November 2, 9, 23 and 30, and December 7. For those in Thursday discussion sections, they will be on October 7, 14 and 28, November 4 and 18, and December 2 and 9.

Homework: It is practically impossible to learn mathematics without doing a lot of problems. Therefore, it is extremely important that you do the assigned problems carefully and promptly. Don't get behind! I will assign homework in each lecture. It will not be turned in or graded. The role of the quizzes is to make sure that you are keeping up. You can ask questions about the problems in discussion section, or in the office hours of the TA and instructor. If you don't get a particular assignment, you can always find it on my web page.

Examinations: There will be two midterms and a final exam. Tentatively, the first midterm will be on Friday, October 22, and the second midterm will be on Wednesday, November 17. The final exam will be 11:30-2:30 on Wednesday, December 15. It will cover the entire quarter. There will be no makeup exams.

Grading: The final grade will be based on the the exams and quizzes with the following weights: Final (40%), midterms (20% each) and quizzes (20%). The bottom quiz score will be dropped before determining the quiz grade.