Xinfeng Liu
Email:
xfliu@math.sc.edu
Phone: 576-5849
Office Location: LC 317Q
Office Hours: MWF 1:30PM-2:30PM or by appointment
Course Syllabus:
Syllabus
Textbook: Thomas' Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Custom Edition for USC (13th edition), by George B. Thomas
Prerequisite: A grade C or better in MATH 142.
Subject Materials: We shall cover the material presented in Chapters 12-16.
Learning Outcome:
The primary goal of this course is to understand "Vector Valued Functions", "Functions
of Two or More Variables", and associated derivatives (partial derivatives and
directional derivatives) and integrals (double integrals and triple integrals). After
this course, you are also supposed to be familiar with "Line Integrals" and a big theorem
"Green's Theorem", and how to use them.
Reading: Reading the textbook
in advance of the lecture is strongly
encouraged. Benefits of this preparation include obtaining a familiarity with the terminology and
concepts that will be encountered (so you can distinguish major points from side
issues), being able to formulate questions about the parts of the presentation that
you do not understand, and having a chance to review the skills and techniques
that will be needed to apply the new concepts.
Important Dates:
The deadline to change/drop the course
without a grade of W being recorded is Wednesday, August 26, 2020.
The deadline to drop/withdraw the course
without a WF being recorded is Wednesday, November 4, 2020.
Homework and Quiz:
Homework Assignment
Homework will not be collected, but you are supposed to do them all.
REMEMBER: the more problems you do, the better you understand the material.
Students are encouraged to work independently on homework sets.
There will be approximately one quiz per week on Wednesday/Friday,
and no quiz during the exam weeks.
There are two to four problems for each quiz.
The quiz problems will be either the same as, or very similar to those
from the homework. Thus, if a student has made a good attempt at the
homework, he/she should do well on the quiz.
One lowest quiz grade will be dropped from the final grade calculation.
Exams: There will be three midterm exams and a comprehensive final exam.
Exam 1: Wednesday, September 23
Exam 2: Wednesday, October 21
Exam 3: Wednesday, November 18
Final Exam: Wednesday, December 9, 9:00AM - 11:30AM
The exams are "closed book" – no books, no notes, no
calculators, no computer or equivalent technology, etc.
There are no early exams. A make-up exam is only possible for
written legitimate documented reasons of illness, family emergency, or participation
in a University sponsored event.
You must take your exams with the lecture for which you are registered.
Grades:
| Exam 1 |
15% |
| Exam 2 |
15%
|
| Exam 2 |
15%
|
| Final Exam |
30%
|
| Quizzes |
25%
|
| Total |
100%
|
A straight scale will be used
so that A's, B's C's and D's correspond to the percent ranges 100-90,
90-80,
80-70 and 70-60 respectively. Plus grading will be used. For example:
| 90-100:A |
86-89: B+ |
80-85: B |
76-79: C+ |
| 70-75: C |
66-69: D+ |
60-65: D |
0-59: F |
Attendance: Attendance at every class meeting is important - and expected.
Class Files (Check Blackboard)
Academic Dishonesty: Cheating and plagiarism in any form is not tolerated.
If a student is caught cheating, I will follow the guidelines as set
forth in the USC Honor Code and other University guidelines.