Dr. Phillip E. Parker

Office: 330 JB
Office hours: 12:30-1:20 MWF and by appointment
Phone: 978-3955 (home 942-7694 evenings before midnight)
Email: phil@math.wichita.edu
URL: http://www.math.wichita.edu/~pparker/classes/

Text: Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals by J. Stewart.

Coverage: Chapts. 1--5. In order to have 4 exams, a review day for each exam, and some extra review at the end, we must cover about one section per class period. This might seem to leave a few "extra" periods, but they'll get "used" any time we slow down at all.

Grading: There will be five in-class, closed-book exams: four "hour tests" and a comprehensive final examination. The hour tests will be on or about 11 Sep (Chapt. 1), 9 Oct (Chapt. 2), 6 Nov (Chapt. 3), and 4 Dec (Chapts. 4 and perhaps part of 5). The final exam will be on Wed 16 Dec at 1:00 pm in the usual classroom. Letter cuts are 90, 80, 60, and 50 per cent; they may be lowered at the instructor's discretion. Each hour test will count about 10% and the final 60% of the semester's grade. (The possibility of quizzes makes these approximate.)

Attendance is assumed and excessive absences will adversely affect your course grade. Homework will not be collected; you'll do it thoroughly if you want to pass.

You may take an hour test early for any reason merely by requesting it well in advance. Make-up (late) tests will be possible ONLY in case of a bona fide emergency beyond your control. If it is at all physically possible, I must be notified before class time on the day on which it is to be given. Subsequently, you must provide suitable documentation before being allowed to schedule a make-up test.