McGill University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
MATH 141 CALCULUS II
COURSE OUTLINE
INSTRUCTOR: Georg Schmidt (BURN 1220, 398-3844, gschmidt@math.mcgill.ca);
office hours: MWF 10:0-11:00 or by appointment.
PREREQUISITE MATH 139, 140 or equivalent.Students who received a grade of F in
the previous course are not allowed to register and those who received a D are encouraged
to repeat the previous course before taking this one. Students will be expected to be
thoroughly familiar with most of the material of chapters 1 to 4 of the textbook by
Stewart listed below.
TEXTBOOK: Calculus, 6th edition,(early transcendentals version) by James Stewart
There is a Single variable version and a version including multivariable calculus which will
be useful to you if you need to take Calculus III later. Other calculus textbooks may also
be used, although textbook references will always be to the specified text.
COURSE CONTENT: We shall cover the following material from the textbook:
Chapter 5 (sections 5.1 to 5.5 )
Chapter 6 (sections 6.1 to 6.3 and 6.5)
Chapter 7 (sections 7.1 to 7.5 and 7.8 )
Chapter 8 (sections 8.1 to 8.2)
Chapter 10 (sections 10.1 to 10.4)
Chapter 11 (sections 11.1 to 11.7)
TUTORIALS AND HELPDESK Tutorials for this course are compulsory. The
teaching assistants who run the tutorials will also have office hours. In addition there is a
Help Desk in BURN 911 whose hours will be posted at
http://www.math.mcgill.ca/students/undergrad/help desk
ASSIGNMENTS There will be no more than 7 compulsory WebWork assignments.
The WebWork webpage is http://msr04.math.mcgill.ca/webwork/m141f07. More
information concerning these assignments can be found on the course website.
MIDTERM TEST One 2 hour Midterm test scheduled for Wednesday, October 24,
2007, from 19:00 to 21:00. No calculators, books or notes will be allowed.
CLASS QUIZZES There will be brief quizzes held during tutorial hours. Each quiz will
require a detailed answer to some question(s) taken from the previously submitted
WebWork Assignment.
FINAL EXAMINATION The final examination will be of 3 hours duration and take
place during the regular examination period. No calculators, books or notes will be
allowed.
MARKING SCHEME: The final letter grade will correspond to the higher of (10%A
+ 5% Q +25% M +60% E) and (10% A + 5% Q + 85% E), where A is the assignment
mark, Q the mark on the quizzes, M the midterm mark and E the final examination
mark.. Note that the assignment and quiz marks are therefore a compulsory component of
the final grade!
COURSE WEBDSITE and WebCT: The website for this course is at
http://www.math.mcgill.ca/schmidt/141f07/index.html. Course documents, assignments
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etc. will be posted there along with announcements so you are urged to consult the site
regularly. The website will be accessible from WebCT, where grades will be posted.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the
meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the
code of student conduct and disciplinary procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/integrity for
more information).
ASSIGNMENT PLAGIARISM: Assignments must be done individually. You may
not copy another person’s work. Furthermore, you must not give a copy of your work to
another student. If you do plagiarize your assignments, in all probability you will not get
caught. However, do not lose sight of the fact that you need to do the assignments
yourself in order to develop the skills you will need for the final exam. In reality, the only
person you would be cheating would be yourself.
September 4, 2007
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