From harelb Sun Sep 11 22:28:13 1994 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 22:28:12 EDT From: harelb (Harel Barzilai) To: 112reform Subject: Report on meeting Bob, Cliff, Lisa, Maria and I met at 8:00pm. We tried to iron out a week-by-week semi-syllabus. Recall that the basic structure of the course will be: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sm Proj; Nuts/Bolts Exam; Lg Proj; Midterm; Sm Proj; Lg Proj; Final ------------------------------------------------------------------ We've tentatively eliminated "surface area" and have integrated the basic 112 material for the first half of the course into a rough syllabus as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | | | | | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday| Thursday | Friday | Saturday | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | JANUARY |CLASSES 23| 24| 25| 26| 27| 28| | |START | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | week1 | | VOLUME AND AREA SECTIONS | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 29| 30| 31|FEB 1| 2| 3| 4| | | | | | | | | | week2 | | | | |ASSIGN | | | | TECHNIQUES OF INTEGRATION | |SM PROJ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |"Houdini"?| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 5| 6| 7| 8| 9| 10| 11| | | | | | |SM PROJ | | | week3 | | | | |DUE | | | | REST OF TECH'S OF INTEGRATION | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 12| 13| 14| 15| 16| 17| 18| | | | | | | | | | week4 | IMPROPER INTEGRALS, ARC-LENGTH, START DEs| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 19| 20|PREL #1 21| 22| 23| 24| 25| | | | | | | | | | week5 | | | | | | | | | | | INDUCTION| DEs--> | | | | | | | | & | | | | | | | | SERIES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 26| 27| 28|MARCH 1| 2| 3| 4| | | | | | | | | | week6 | | | | | | | | | ASSIGN | SERIES | | | | | | | LG PROJ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |"Tripple | | | | | | | | Trouble"?| | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | | | | | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday| Thursday | Friday | Saturday | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |MARCH 5| 6| 7| 8| 9| 10| 11| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SERIES | | | | | | week7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 12| 13| 14| 15| 16| 17|SPRING 18| | | | | | | |BREAK | | | LG PROJ | SERIES | | | |STARTS | | week8 | IS DUE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 19| 20| 21| 22| 23| 24| 25| | | | | | | | | | BREAK | | | | | | | | WEEK | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 26|CLASSES 27| 28| 29|PREL #2 30| 31|APRIL 1| | |RESUME | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | week9 | MISC AND REVIEW | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Project (or in-class "activities") candidates (relevant material in ()s): *** AREA OF YOUR HAND (Areas, definition of integral) *** Choice between STICKING THE TANK and HOUDINI'S ESCAPE (Volumes) *** CONSTANTS [in] INTEGRATION BY PARTS (same) PI IN THE SKY (infinite series, geometric series, errors, integrals (and relation to series (and inequalities)) TRIPPLE TROUBLE (infinite, DEs) (Great story line based on Star Trek's "The Trouble with Tribbles") THE DEFT FLY (infinite series, induction) COCKROACH ON AN ELASTIC TIGHT-ROPE (infinite series, recurrence, induction) Problem posed by Marshall Cohen, re safe medical doses (Series, DEs) Why Can a Sailboat Sail Upwind, (Involves: Vectors, projection, etc.) ################################################################## From harelb Sun Sep 11 23:07:58 1994 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 23:07:57 EDT From: harelb (Harel Barzilai) To: 112reform I'm putting hard-copies in peopl's mailboxes to facilitate everyone's participating in the on-going drafting/re-drafting of the syllabus/course. Also, I forgot to mention that Ithaca College's workbook for their project oriented course is on Lisa Orlandi's desk for everyone's viewing; For the next week or so the New Mexico book of calculus projects will be with Cliff Earle; then probably on my or Lisa's desk. Harel