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Course Syllabi Fall 2009

• Math 100
• Math 105
• CS 325
• CS 325 Notes

1. Objectives:

This course is called Precalculus. The overall objective of the course is to prepare students to move into calculus. The specific objectives of the course are as follows:

• Learn about functions and graphs of functions. This will include rates of change and inverse functions.
• Learn about polynomial and rational functions. This will include characteristics and graphs of such, real roots of polynomials, and polynomial and rational inequalities.
• Learn about exponential and logarithmic functions. This will include common and natural logarithms, graphs and properties of exponential and logarithmic functions, and the relationships between exponential and logarithmic functions.
• Learn about the six trigonometric functions. This will include radian measure of angles, graphs of the trigonometric functions, and some basic identities.
• Learn about triangle trigonometry and its applications, and the laws of cosines and sines.
• Time permitting, learn about some of the more advanced properties of the trigonometric functions. This will include addition and subtractions identities, inverse trigonometric functions, and trigonometric equations.

2. Grades:

There will be 4 exams which may cut across chapter boundaries. The final exam will be cumulative, and will count as much as two hour exams. Specific homework assignments will be collected, and the homework average, after the lowest homework grade is dropped, will count as much as one hour exam. (If there are more than 10 turn-in homework assignments, the lowest two homework grades will be dropped.) Students may work together on homework, but each student should turn in their own assignment. Note that no homework assignment will be accepted late.

NO MAKEUP HOUR EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN. Instead, a cumulative general purpose makeup will be given at the end of the semester. Although the makeup is intended primarily for students who miss an hour exam, if no hour exams are missed, the makeup can be used to replace the lowest hour exam score. In certain cases students who know in advance that they will miss an exam may be permitted to take the exam early, but no one will be permitted to take an exam after the date it is given to the class. Exams will be curved if necessary. The tentative exam dates are Sept. 23, Oct. 21, Nov. 11, and Dec. 7. The makeup exam is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 10. If an hour exam is scheduled for a day when there is a canceled class or a compressed schedule, the exam will be given at the next regularly scheduled class. Students will be permitted to bring one 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper with notes to each hour exam. Two such sheets will be permitted at the makeup exam and at the final Extra credit pop quizzes may be given at any time.

3. Text:

Contemporary Precalculus, A Graphing Approach, 5^th edition, by Thomas W. Hungerford and Douglas J. Shaw. A graphing calculator is also required for the course. The specific type of calculator is not important for this course, but be aware that the calculus classes at Wilkes will require the TI89 or its equivalent. If you purchase a lower level calculator, e.g. a TI 83 or 84, that will be fine for this course, but will not be sufficient for calculus. In the text the plan is to cover sections 1.3 and 1.4, 3.1 - 3.3, 3.5 - 3.7, 4.1 - 4.6, 5.1 - 5.5, 6,1 - 6.4, 6.6, 8.1 - 8.4, and, given time, 7.2 - 7.5.

My office is room 415. My formal office hours will be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:00 - 10:00 AM, 3:00 - 4:00 PM on Monday, and 2:00 - 3:00 PM on Thursday. During office hours I will see students on a first come, first served basis. Students are welcome (encouraged actually) to drop in at (or make a specific appointment for) any time that I do not have a previous commitment, whether or not it is a formal office hour. You are also welcome to call me (408-4834) or to send me email (tillman@mathcs.wilkes.edu). I can also be reached via one of our department fax machines (408-7883 or 408-2033). Some students have used the fax to submit homework assignments. My schedule is posted on my office door and can also be found at http://course.wilkes.edu/tillman/stories/storyReader$161.

5. Attendance:

Attendance will be taken daily. Students are responsible for all material covered or assigned whether or not they are in class. Attendance may be used as a deciding factor in determining borderline grades.

6. Drops:

During the first three weeks of the semester students may drop for any reason, at their own whim. Following the third week, and up through the tenth week, students may drop with permission of the instructor and their advisor. I will always grant my permission. Following the tenth week, students may drop only with permission of the instructor and the dean of the appropriate school (Dean Bruns in this case), and only for extraordinary reasons (e.g. an illness which makes it impossible to catch up on the work). A failing average is not considered sufficient reason. Once again I will always grant my permission.

MATH 105 COURSE SYLLABUS

My office is room 415. My formal office hours will be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:00 - 10:00 AM, 3:00 - 4:00 PM on Monday, and 2:00 - 3:00 PM on Thursday. During office hours I will see students on a first come, first served basis. Students are welcome (encouraged actually) to drop in at (or make a specific appointment for) any time that I do not have a previous commitment, whether or not it is a formal office hour. You are also welcome to call me (408-4834) or to send me email (tillman@mathcs.wilkes.edu). I can also be reached via one of our department fax machines (408-7883 or 408-2033). Some students have used the fax to submit homework assignments. My schedule is posted on my office door and can also be found at http://course.wilkes.edu/tillman/stories/storyReader$161.

Attendance will be taken daily. Students are responsible for all material covered or assigned whether or not they are in class. Attendance may be used as a deciding factor in determining borderline grades.

During the first three weeks of the semester students may drop for any reason, at their own whim. Following the third week, and up through the tenth week, students may drop with permission of the instructor and their advisor. I will always grant my permission. Following the tenth week, students may drop only with permission of the instructor and the dean of the appropriate school (Dean Bruns in this case), and only for extraordinary reasons (e.g. an illness which makes it impossible to catch up on the work). A failing average is not considered sufficient reason. Once again I will always grant my permission.

CS 325 COURSE SYLLABUS

There will be several programming projects and a few homework assignments which do not involve programming. All of these should be individual efforts. The project and homework average will be worth 30% of the final grade. There will be six mini-projects, with due dates one week or less from the time assigned. There will be two main projects. The mini-project average will be 13% of the grade, the main project average will be 12% of the grade, and the non-programming homework 5% of the grade. There will also be a seventh extra credit mini-project. The projects will use oracle, a relational database and the most widely used database in the world. Oracle resides on a virtual machine called oracle, which has LINUX as its operating system. The oracle projects will be written in either SQL (a major topic of the course) or SQL embedded in a host language. The host language will be java, except for the extra credit mini-project where the host language will be C++. On-line documentation for Oracle can be found at

http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/homepage?remark=tahiti

for the general reference. For a list of specific references look at

http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/portal.all_books

The most useful links are likely to be Error Messages , Pro*C/C++ Precompiler Programmer's Guide, Programmer's Guide to the Oracle Precompilers, JDBC Developer's Guide and Reference (the Java reference guide), SQL Reference, and SQL*Plus User's Guide and Reference which will give you information on using the SQL*Plus subsystem.

NO PROJECT or HOMEWORK WILL BE ACCEPTED LATE!

DATABASE SYSTEMS Design, Implementation, and Management, eighth edition, by Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel. We will cover chapters 1 - 5, part of 6, 7, much of 8, 9 very lightly, 10 and 12. We will also discuss the underlying data structures of database management systems in some detail, embedded SQL (covered only very lightly in the text), and, of course, we will discuss Oracle in some detail.

My office is room 415. My formal office hours will be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:00 - 10:00 AM, 3:00 - 4:00 PM on Monday, and 2:00 - 3:00 PM on Thursday. During office hours I will see students on a first come, first served basis. Students are welcome (encouraged actually) to drop in at (or make a specific appointment for) any time that I do not have a previous commitment, whether or not it is a formal office hour. You are also welcome to call me (408-4834) or to send me email (tillman@mathcs.wilkes.edu). I can also be reached via one of our department fax machines (408-7883 or 408-2033). Some students have used the fax to submit homework assignments. My schedule is posted on my office door and can also be found at http://course.wilkes.edu/tillman/stories/storyReader$161.

Attendance will be taken daily. Students are responsible for all material covered or assigned whether or not they are in class. Attendance may be used as a deciding factor in determining borderline grades.

During the first three weeks of the semester students may drop for any reason, at their own whim. Following the third week, and up through the tenth week, students may drop with permission of the instructor and their advisor. I will always grant my permission. Following the tenth week, students may drop only with permission of the instructor and the dean of the appropriate school (Dean Bruns in this case), and only for extraordinary reasons (e.g. an illness which makes it impossible to catch up on the work). A failing average is not considered sufficient reason. Once again I will always grant my permission.

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