Math 111 - Calculus 1 - Fall 2014
Instructor: Christopher Sadowski
Email: csadowski at ursinus dot edu
Office: Pfahler Hall 101L
Office Hours: M,Th 10:30 - 12:00 and by appointment.
Text: Calculus Early Transcendentals, Second Edition, by Briggs, Cochran, and Gillett
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Location: Pfahler Hall 107
Meeting times: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 9:00-9:50 A.M.
Grading:
-10% Homework and Maple Labs
-10% Quizzes
-15% Midterm 1
-15% Midterm 2
-15% Midterm 3
-35% Final Exam
Midterms:
Midterm 1 will be on Friday, 10/3/14.
Midterm 2 will be on Friday, 10/31/14.
Midterm 3 will be on Monday, 11/24/14.
Final exam will be on Friday, 12/12/14 at 9am in the usual classroom.
Midterm Averages:
Midterm 1: 67.81
Midterm 2: 75.4
Midterm 3: 66.8
Homework: There will be weekly homework assigned each Thursday, to be completed online and finished by the following Thursday.
To set up your account to do homework, go to http://www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com. If you have an account with Pearson, you may use that one. If you don't you should create a new one. You should be registered as a Student. The course ID that you need to input to access the course is: sadowski94585
Quizzes: We will have a quiz on Thursday of each week on the material covered in the previous week. The quiz will be on the homework material due that week.
Maple:
Maple lab 1 is due 9/15/2014. It was sent out via email.
Maple lab 2 is due 10/6/2014. It was sent out via email.
Maple lab 3 is due 11/17/2014. It was sent out via email.
Syllabus (subject to change as the course progresses):
Week 1: 8/25 - 8/29
1.1 Review of Functions
1.2 Representing Functions
1.3 Inverse, Exponential, and Logarithmic Functions
Week 2: 9/1 - 9/5
1.4 Trigonometric Functions and Their Inverses
2.1 The Idea of Limits
2.2 Definition of Limits
Week 3: 9/8 - 9/12
2.3 Techniques for Computing Limits
2.4 Infinite Limits
2.5 Limits at Infinity
2.6 Continuity
Week 4: 9/15 - 9/19
2.6 Continuity (continued), Intermediate Value Theorem
3.1 Introducing the Derivative
3.2 Working With Derivatives
Week 5: 9/22 - 9/26
3.3 Rules of Differentiation
3.4 Product and Quotient Rules
Week 6: 9/29 - 10/3
3.5 Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
3.6 Derivatives as Rates of Change
MIDTERM 1 WILL BE ON FRIDAY, 10/3/14.
Week 7: 10/6 - 10/10
3.7 Chain Rule
3.8 Implicit Differentiation
Week 8: 10/15 - 10/16
3.9 Derivatives of Logarithmic and Exponential Functions
3.10 Derivative of Inverse Trigonometric Functions
Week 9: 10/20 - 10/24
3.11 Related Rates
4.1 Maxima and Minima
4.2 What Derivatives Tell us
Week 10: 10/27 - 10/31
4.3 Graphing Functions
4.4 Optimization Problems
MIDTERM 2 IS ON FRIDAY, 10/31/14.
Week 11: 11/3 - 11/7
4.5 Linear Approximations and Differentials
4.6 Mean Value Theorem
4.7 L'Hospital's Rule
Week 12: 11/10 - 11/14
4.9 Antiderivatives
5.1 Approximating Area Under Curves
Week 13: 11/17 - 11/21
5.1 Approximating Area Under Curves
5.2 Definite Integrals
Week 14: 11/24 Midterm 3 will be this week, covering 4.3 up to and including 5.3
Week 15: 12/1 - 12/5
5.3 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Review for Final