Your performance will be compared to that of the standardizing group in order to determine your grade. If you miss an hour exam with an acceptable excuse, your grade for that exam will be one-half the percentile equivalent that you earn on the final exam. If or when you have difficulty with the homework, you should make an effort to see me in order to help overcome those difficulties. In order for me to be able to help you properly, it is necessary for me to have a grasp of the nature and extent of your difficulty. The usual college recommendation of 2 hours outside study for every hour of classroom instruction is a minimum recommended guideline for this course.
Problems are of the word problem variety.
You need to practice recognizing what is asked, what is given, and what strategy to employ for solving the problem. You need to know how to rearrange equations. You need to be very familiar with the operation of your calculator. You will also need to know how to work with logarithms and the various trigonometric functions. I understand its content.