Prerequisites: Math 1226
The most important prerequisite material is: sketching curves, differentiation, and integration. If your knowledge on these topics is rusty, it's a good idea to review these before we need them. We need these throughout the whole semester.

Email: Use your university email account (not through Canvas or WebAssign) to email me pwappero@vt.edu and for a timely response, include `Math 2204' in the subject line.

Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:30am, Thursday 1:00-2:30pm.
If you have classes during these times, please make an appointment (email me 3 possible timeslots so that I can choose one that works for both).
Try to resolve minor issues at the end of class or by email (scan a pdf of your work and indicate where you experience problems). Come prepared to office hours: Completely and carefully read all relevant assignment instructions and associated notes and textbook sections. Try to work out as much of the relevant assignment as possible.

Class meeting time: MWF 10:10-11:00am, Architecture Annex 7
This is a face-to-face class and you are expected to attend class.

Final Exam Time: Saturday May 10, 7:00-9:00pm
IMPORTANT: The final exam is a required class meeting that will not be rescheduled for discretionary reasons, including conflicts with work schedules, with classes and exams at other colleges, and travel. In particular, if you simultaneously take courses at NRCC, you need to check at the beginning of the semester that they will not have a conflict because the Math Department will NOT accommodate such a conflict.

Special needs: Virginia Tech welcomes students with disabilities into the University's educational programs. The University promotes efforts to provide equal access and a culture of inclusion without altering the essential elements of coursework. If you anticipate or experience academic barriers that may be due to disability, including but not limited to, chronic medical conditions, Deaf or hard of hearing, learning disability, mental health, or vision impairment, please contact the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) (540-231-3788, ssd@vt.edu, or visit www.ssd.vt.edu).
If you have an SSD accommodation letter, please make an appointment or meet with me during office hours as early in the semester as possible to discuss implementing your accommodations. You must give me reasonable notice to implement your accommodations, which is generally 5 business days and 10 business days for final exams.

Homework policy
Written homework problems and due dates will be posted on my course website .

• Grading: The lowest score on your HW assignments will be dropped. Thus if there are 11 HWs, the best 10 count towards your grade. For the written homeworks, only selected problems will be graded (partial credit). These problems will not be known to students in advance. Except for problems selected for grading, homework will not be marked.
  IMPORTANT: Submitted work should not only give the correct answer but also clearly delineate the logic justifying the answer. Always include the formula that you use. No credit should be expected for correct answers if no work is shown.
  
• Submission: A hard copy needs to be submitted by the announced deadline. A paperclip is useful. If you have an emergency, like illness, or travel, email a temporary electronic copy (a pdf file, no links) to show you did the work in time. Then hand in the hard copy when you return.
  IMPORTANT: You are supposed to do the HW problems related to the material discussed in class before the next class meeting. Typically, you would be required to submit this part of the HWs in time, even with an excuse for the last couple of days: email me a pdf file of the completed work and hand in the original within one week of your return from an excused absence.
• Late homework: Homework that is handed in late is subject to a penalty (20 %) if it is handed in before I return the HW. Homework given after I returned the HW will be given a zero. To avoid a penalty or zero grade for a late homework you must show convincing evidence/documentation that you had no alternative. Since homework problems are known well in advance, only a valid reason for an absence of several days will be accepted as an excuse.
  
• Allowed help on homeworks:
  • You may use the answers at the back of the book to verify your answers. You may also use the tables at the back of the book, provided that you make a proper reference on written homeworks.
  • Students may consult the textbook and their notes for homework, and students may get help with homework assignments from other students, your 2204 instructor, and from Tutoring Services.
• Unallowed help on homeworks:
  • No calculators or other electronic devices are allowed for written homeworks. This also means, for example, that searching for solutions on the internet is NOT allowed.
  • Copying a solution from a solution manual, websites (Chegg, CoursHero, etc.) or any other source is prohibited.
  • Using another person's solutions to the homework when writing up an assignment is prohibited. In writing up an assignment to be handed in, every student needs to work alone (without other students or other students' papers). By handing in the homeworks, a student certifies that what is written accurately represents the student's own understanding of the material expressed in the student's own words.