Math 32H/O’Neill

                                                   Syllabus

 

 

Texts: Lang, Calculus of Several Variables  3rd Edition.

          O’Neill, B, Elementary Differential Geometry  Revised 2nd edition.

 

Time: MWF 11

 

Room: RN 104

 

Instructor: M. O’Neill

Office: Adams 214          

Phone/e-mail: 607-8336/moneill@cmc.edu               

 

Our objective is to reach chapter 12 in the text by Lang and to see as much as we can see from O’Neill’s text.

There will be a regular problem/review session on Thursday evenings in Bauer 25 at 7:30pm starting Thursday Sept. 10.

This 1 hour session will be shared with the regular Math 32 section. At 8:30pm on Thursdays in the same room, there will be a special session for Math 32H to discuss the extra reading and problems from O’Neill’s text.

 

Grading:     

                    Homework   (weekly)

                    2 or 3 midterms

                    Final exam 

 

The three components are each worth roughly a third of your grade.

I will give you at least one week's notice before a midterm. They will be roughly equally spaced through the semester but the first will be in the fourth week of class.

The possible 3rd midterm is in case of some disaster occurring on the first two.

 

The honors component of your grade will come from your homework assignments and your general participation.

The last honors assignment will be a comprehensive review of the material on differential geometry that we cover and will count a bit  more than the other assignments.

 

                  

Other important items:

  1. Please arrive to class on time.
  2. Please turn off cell phones and beepers in class.

 

 

Tips on performing well in this class:

 

1.      Work several problems EVERY day until the final exam.

2.      Find someone in the class to study with.

3.      Ask the instructor if you can’t figure something out.

4.       Take advantage of the office hours.

5.       Get help EARLY. It will be too late by the time an exam gets close.