- Name: Javier Fernandez
- Office: JWB 313 (this is in the third floor of the John Widtsoe Building, on President's circle).
- e-mail: jfernand@math.utah.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesday and Friday 10 - 11, and by appointment.
- Schedule: Lectures on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and
Fridays, 11:50AM - 12:40PM, in ST 205.
- Web Page: The ``official'' web page is
- Book: Calculus, 8th edition, by D. Varberg, E.
J. Purcell and S. E. Rigdon. Also, the notes Introduction to
Polynomial Calculus, that can be downloaded from the course's
web page.
- Topics: We will cover the notes mentioned above as well
as, mostly, chapters 2 through 6 from the textbook.
- Quizzes, Tests and Final Exam:
- Every Tuesday --except as announced in class-- there will be a quiz during the first ten to fifteen minutes of the class. You will be asked to answer some questions and/or exercises strongly based on the homework assigned up to the last Friday. There will be no makeups for these quizzes.
- There will be three 50 minute tests. They will take place, approximately, towards the middle of February, March and April, and each one will be based on the material covered since the last test.
- Cumulative Final Exam: Friday, April 30, 10:30AM - 12:30 PM.
- Makeups: none, except for University-excused absences.
- Homework: Exercises will be assigned on a daily basis,
but they will neither be collected nor graded.
- Grades: the final (number) grade will be computed as
follows:
from your final exam grade; 
from the best
two scores of your tests (the worst grade is discarded); 
from your in-class work (this includes the score of your quizzes,
of which we drop the lower three).
- Tutoring Center: Open 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM Monday through
Thursday and 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM on Fridays, in the Mathematics
Tutoring Center (between the JWB and LCB buildings). Please check
the schedule maintained at
http://www.math.utah.edu/ugrad/tutoring.htmlto be sure that there will be some tutor that can help you.
- Calculators: the use of a calculator in class and during exams
is allowed. Other electronic devices (laptop computers, etc) are
not allowed during exams and quizzes. Notice that it may be
requested that certain exercises be solved without the use
of calculators.
- ADA Statement: the Americans with Disabilities Act requires
that reasonable accommodations be provided for students with
physical, cognitive, systemic, learning and psychiatric
disabilities. Please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to discuss any such accommodations
you may require for this course.
- Withdrawal: the last day to withdraw from the course is
Friday, March 5.