Single Variable Calculus II (early session)
Summer 2009

Instructor: Zhang, Letao
Office: Herman Brown B14
Phone: Ext 4598
E-mail: (my first name).zhang@rice.edu

Location: HB 427
Time:  9:00 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. every weekday
Help Sessions: 1:00-2:00P.M. every weekday, in my office,

Syllabus (PDF)

Academic Calendar

 

Tentative Daily Schedule and Homework


Date

Section

Topic

Homework

1

May. 12, Tue

7.2, 7.3

Integral tables,
substitutions,
integration by parts

HW1

2

May.13, Wed

7.4, 7.5

Trigonometric integrals

Rational functions and partial fractions

No homework

3

May 14, Thu

7.6,7.7

Trigonometric substitution, integrals involving quadratic polynomials

HW2

4

May 15, Fri

7.8, Review ch 7

Improper integrals
Review

HW3

5

May 18, Mon

9.2, 9.3

Polar coordinates

Area computations in polar coordinates

HW4

6

May 19, Tue

9.4, review Ch9

Area computations in polar coordinates
parametric curves

Hand out Exam 1 and no homework

7

May 20, Wed

Review ch7,9

Parametric curves
Review Ch7 and prepare Exam

HW5


8

May 21, Thu

10.1, 10.2

Infinite Sequences

HW6

9

May 22, Fri

10.2, 10.3

Infinite Sequences
Infinite Series and convergence

HW7

10

May 26, Tue

10.3, 10.4

Infinite Series and Convergence
Taylor series and Taylor polynomials

HW8 (the last homework)

11

May 27, Wed

10.5, 10.6

The integral test
Comparison tests for positive-term series

HW9 ( will not be collected)

12

May 28, Thu

10.7, 10.8

Alternating Series and Absolute Convergence
Power Series

Hand out Exam 2

13

May 29, Fri

Review all above

 

 

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