Welcome to Math 142! This course is the second course in the traditional calculus sequence. The course offers a balance between mathematical skills and conceptual understanding, with presentation of ideas geometrically, algebraically, numerically and verbally and with attention to applications.

Instructional Staff :

• Instructor: Frank Thorne, LeConte 417O, thorne [at] math.sc.edu.
  Office Hours: Tue 11:30-12:30, Thu/Fri 9:00-10:00, or by appointment.

• Teaching Assistant:
  Thomas Hamori, LeConte 400A, thamori [at] email.sc.edu
  The TA will hold discussion sections and office hours, run the computer labs, and grade the quizzes and homeworks. His job is to help you get through the course.
  

  Office Hours: Monday 10:30-11:30, Tuesday 12:15-1:15.

• Supplemental Instructor: Marley Perlstein, marleyp [at] email.sc.edu
  The supplemental instructor is an undergraduate who has done very well in Math 142 in the past. She will attend all the lectures and is here to help.
  In place of office hours she holds SI sessions that you can go to.

Syllabus. (learning outcomes, course policies, information about grading, and resources for gaining further help)

Fall 2013 course. Includes some old exams, review material, etc.

SI Schedules and Websites: Marley's and the overall SI schedule.

• 8/22: Introduction and Review of Calculus I

  8/23-28: Readiness test

  8/28: Deadline to drop without a grade of W.

  Homework 1, due Wednesday, August 28, 2019.

• 8/27: Integration by substition (Ch. 5.6, 8.1)
• 8/29: Integration by parts (Ch. 8.2)

• 9/3: Trigonometric integrals (Ch. 8.3)

  Homework 2, due Wednesday, September 4, 2019.

• 9/5: Trigonometric substitutions (Ch. 8.4)

  9/9-9/27: Gateway Exam 1

• 9/10: Partial fractions (Ch. 8.5)

  Homework 3, due Wednesday, September 11, 2019.

• 9/12: Numerical integration (Ch. 8.7)

• 9/17: Review

  Homework 4, due Wednesday, September 18, 2019.

• 9/19: Midterm Exam 1 (w/solutions).

• 9/24: Improper integration (Ch. 8.8)
• 9/26: Infinite sequences (Ch. 10.1)

• 10/1: Infinite series (Ch. 10.2)

• Homework 5, due Wednesday, October 2, 2019.

  10/3: Convergence tests I: the integral test (Ch. 10.3)

• 10/8: Convergence tests II: comparison tests (Ch. 10.4)

  Homework 6, due Wednesday, October 9, 2019.

  10/10: Fall Break!

  10/14-11/3: Gateway Exam 2

• 10/15: Convergence tests III: ratio and root tests (Ch. 10.5)

  Homework 7: Thomas, Ch. 10.4, 18-30. Due Wednesday, October 16, 2019.

• 10/17: Convergence tests IV: Alternating series (Ch. 10.6)

• 10/22: Review 10/8: Convergence tests II: comparison tests (Ch. 10.4)

  Homework 8, due Wednesday, October 23, 2019.

• 10/24: Midterm Exam 2. Here is your list of convergence tests, which was provided to you on the exam.

• 10/29: Power Series (Ch. 10.7)
• 10/31: Taylor and Maclaurin Series (Ch. 10.8)

  11/6: Deadline to drop without a WF.

• 11/5: Error estimates with Taylor series (Ch. 10.9)
• 11/7: Applications of Taylor polynomials (Ch. 10.10)

  11/11-22: Gateway Exam 3

• 11/12: Parametric curves (Ch. 11.1)

  Homework 9, due Wednesday, November 13, 2019.

• 11/14: Tangents and arc length (Ch. 11.2)

• 11/19: Review

  Homework 10, due Wednesday, November 20, 2019.

• 11/21: Midterm Exam 3.

• 11/26: Polar coordinates I (Ch. 11.3)

  11/28: Happy Thanksgiving!

• 12/3: Polar coordinates II (Ch. 11.4)
• 12/5: Areas and arc lengths in polar coordinates (Ch. 11.5)

  Homework 11, not be turned in.

• 12/10, 9:00 a.m.: FINAL EXAM. Here is the practice exam (good for extra credit). (See here for the graph.)