Math 136 is the second semester of the Math 135-136 sequence for students studying Life Sciences or Social Sciences. Math 136 is designed specifically for students who want a second semester of calculus for their technical background, but who do not intend to take further courses in Calculus or Differential Equations. Therefore, Math 136 offers a mixture of traditional Calculus II topics and of additional topics—such as mulitivariate functions and constrained optimization using Lagrange multipliers—that students are likely to meet in scientific applications.
Life Sciences majors may also take Math 138 to fulfill their requirement of a second semester Calculus course. To decide which course they would prefer, Life Sciences majors should also visit the Math 138 web page.
To include the additional material described above, Math 136 excludes many topics that are needed in a third semester calculus course such as Math 251. For this reason, Math 136 is not a CALC2 equivalent course. That is, Math 136 will not serve as a prerequisite for Math 251 or any other course requiring a CALC2 prerequisite, except Math 250. The same applies to Math 138.
The only courses satisfying the CALC2 prerequisite are Math 152, 154, and 192*. These are different versions of the second semester of the sequence Calculus for Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, a traditional second semester calculus course that prepares students for higher level mathematics courses. Students who may wish to take Math 251 should follow Math 135 with Math 152, not Math 136 (and not Math 138). This applies to students in certain programs in the Life Sciences (in particular, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry), which require Math 251. More information on the transition from Math 135 to Math 152 can be found on the web page Mathematics Placement Advice.
The current textbook for this course is a Calculus and Its Applications, a custom text for Rutgers University, published by Pearson Custom Publishing. The text is based primarily on Calculus, Third Edition, by Strauss, Bradley and Smith, but also contains material from Calculus & Its Applications, by Goldstein, both published by Prentice Hall.
Here is the current departmental syllabus for the course. Your instructor will supply his or her own version of this syllabus.
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Profs. Ocone and Gundy |
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Text: Larson Hoestler Edwards 1st ed. |
This material is posted by the faculty of the Mathematics Department at Rutgers New Brunswick for informational purposes. While we try to maintain it, information may not be current or may not apply to individual sections. The authority for content, textbook, syllabus, and grading policy lies with the course coordinator and instructor for the current term.
Information posted prior to the beginning of the semester is frequently tentative, or based on previous semesters. Textbooks should not be purchased until confirmed with the instructor. For generally reliable textbook information—with the exception of sections with an alphabetic code like H1 or T1, and topics courses (197,395,495)—see the textbook lists for the appropriate terms: Fall or Winter, Summer.
Earlier Text: Soo T. Tan; Applied Calculus; Brooks/Cole (Fifth edition), 2002 (976 pp.);(ISBN# 0-534-37843-9)
*Note: Through Fall 2001 Math 136 followed a syllabus similar to the Math 152 syllabus and was accepted as an equivalent for CALC II.
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Updated 9/2007 ugvc