Course Instructor: Howen Chuah (Email: hchuah@purdue.edu, Office: Math Science Building, Room 733, Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/math-howen-chuah/homepage?authuser=0)
Course Coordinator: Dr. Huimei Delgado
Course Time and Room: Section 013: MWF 11:30 am -12:20 pm (CRN: 18232), SCHM 309
Section 014: MWF 12:30 pm -1:20 pm (CRN: 18252), SCHM 309
Course Syllabus: Please find here for the Course Syllabus.
Course Lecture Notes: Please find here for the comprehensive Course Lecture Notes.
Course Description: Topics include trigonometric and exponential functions; limits and differentiation, rules of differentiation, maxima, minima and optimization; curve sketching, integration, anti-derivatives, fundamental theorem of calculus. Properties of definite integrals and numerical methods. Applications to life, managerial and social sciences.
Course Webpage: All the information regarding the course will be updated both here and on Brightspace. In case there is a discrepancy, please refer to Brightspace.
Course Homework: The homework assignments of the class will be accessed through Macmillan’s Achieve online system .
Course Exams: There will be three midterm exams and a final exam. The final exam will be comprehensive, and it will cover the material from the entire course. All exams are course-wide, multiple-choice, machine-graded exams. The three midterms are all evening exams. The final exam information will be given later in the semester. If there are any special circumstances that may affect your ability to successfully complete an exam (illness, family emergency, etc.), you must discuss the situation with your instructor before taking the exam. Do not wait until after you take the exam to mention a situation to your instructor. Students cannot retake an exam.
Course Attendance: The course attendance is required for each student. It is the student's responsibility to attend the classes and keep updated about the class. The attendance for each class is either 0 or 1 point, and there are NO partial points. There might be different methods to take attendance throughout the semester. If students switch sections, all the attendance points will stay.
Course Extra Credits: There will be 8 points of extra credits total in 4 installments. The criteria will be fair, reasonably easy and encouraging. The extra credit can be thought of as a bump-up mechanism in a way. Therefore, we will strictly follow a predetermined grading scale to determine your final letter grade.
Course Office Hours: Wednesday 10:30 am -11:20 am, Math Science Building G175, or by appointment.
Course Grade: The course grade will be based on a total of 582 points:
Homework: 64 points
Attendance: 38 points
Exam 1: 96 points
Exam 2: 96 points
Exam 3: 96 points
Final Exam: 192 points
Class Period and Important Dates:
[1] Class Begin: August 24th, 2026
[2] Class End: December 12th, 2026
[3] The First Midterm Exam : September 23rd (Wednesday), 8:00 pm, Lessons 2-10
[4] The Second Midterm Exam : October 15th (Thursday), 8:00 pm, Lessons 11-18
[5] The Third Midterm Exam : November 10th (Tuesday), 8:00 pm, Lessons 20-28
[6] Final Exam: (To be Determined), Lessons 2-35
[7] Fall Break: October 12th- October 13th, 2026
[8] Thanksgiving Break: November 25th- November 28th, 2026
[9] Labor Day: September 7th, 2026
[10] Last Day to Withdraw a Course Without it on Your Record: August 28th, 2026
[11] Last Day to Drop a Course and Receive a W: November 13th, 2026
Week 1: August 24th: Class Begin; Course Information; Review (Lecture 1) (Lecture 1 without Solutions)
August 26th: Finding Limits Numerically; One-sided Limits; Finding Limits Graphically (Lecture 2) (Lecture 2 without Solutions)
August 28th: Finding Limits Analytically; Last Day to Withdraw a Course Without it on Your Record (Lecture 3) (Lecture 3 without Solutions)
Week 2: August 31st: Continuity (Lecture 4)(Lecture 4 without Solutions)
September 2nd: The Derivative (Lecture 5)(Lecture 5 without Solutions)
September 4th: Basic Rules of Differentiation; Derivatives of Sine and Cosine; Natural Exponential Function (Lecture 6) (Lecture 6 without Solutions)
Week 3: September 7th: No class due to Labor Day.
September 9th: Instantaneous Rates of Change (Lecture 7) (Lecture 7 without Solutions)
September 11th: The Product Rule (Lecture 8) (Lecture 8 without Solutions)
Week 4: September 14th: The Quotient Rule; Other Trigonometric Derivatives (Lecture 9) (Lecture 9 without Solutions)
September 16th: The Chain Rule (Lecture 10) (Lecture 10 without Solutions)
September 18th: The Chain Rule; Natural Logarithmic Function (Lecture 11) (Lecture 11 without Solutions)
Week 5: September 21st: Review for Exam 1
September 23rd: Exam 1 (8:00-9:00 pm, Multiple Locations)
September 25th: Higher Order Derivatives (Lecture 12)
Week 6: September 28th: Implicit Differentiation (Lecture 13)
September 30th: Related Rates (Lecture 14)
October 2nd: Related Rates (Lecture 15)
Week 7: October 5th: Relative Extrema and Critical Numbers (Lecture 16)
October 7th: Increasing and Decreasing Functions; First Derivative Test (Lecture 17)
October 9th: Concavity; Inflection Points; Second Derivative Test (Lecture 18)
Week 8: October 12th: No class due to Fall Break.
October 14th: Review for Exam 2
October 15th: Exam 2 (8:00–9:00 PM, Multiple Locations)
October 16th: Absolute Extrema on an Interval (Lecture 19)
Week 9: October 19th: Graphical Interpretation of Derivatives (Lecture 20)
October 21st: Limits at Infinity (Lecture 21)
October 23rd: Summary of Curve Sketching (Lecture 22)
Week 10: October 26th: Optimization (Lecture 23)
October 28th: Optimization (Lecture 24)
October 30th: Optimization (Lecture 25)
Week 11: November 2nd: Antiderivatives and Indefinite Integration (Lecture 26)
November 4th: Antiderivatives and Indefinite Integration (Lecture 27)
November 6th: Area and Riemann Sums (Lecture 28)
Week 12: November 9th: Review for Exam 3
November 10th: Exam 3 (8:00–9:00 PM, Multiple Locations)
November11th: No Classes (for Exam 3)
November 13th: Definite Integrals; Last Day to Drop a Course and Receive a W (Lecture 29)
Week 13: November 16th: Definite Integrals (Lecture 30)
November 18th: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (Lecture 31)
November 20th: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (Lecture 32)
Week 14: November 23rd: No Classes (for Exam 2)
November 25th: No Classes Due to Thanksgiving Break.
November 27th: No Classes Due to Thanksgiving Break.
Week 15: November 30th: Numerical Integration (Lecture 33)
December 2nd: Exponential Growth (Lecture 34)
December 4th: Exponential Decay (Lecture 35)
Week 16: December 7th: Review for Final Exam
December 9th: Review for Final Exam
December 11th: Review for Final Exam; Class End
Week 17: December 14th: Week of Final Exams
December 16th: Week of Final Exams
December 18th: Week of Final Exams
Other Important Information:
[1] MA 16010 Fall 2026, Calculator Policy and Calculator Tips.
[2] MA 16010 Fall 2026, Alternate Exam Form
[3] MA 16010 Fall 2026, Course Calender in PDF
[4] Deadline for Alternate Exams: Alternate Exam 1: Wednesday, September 30th
Alternate Exam 2: Thursday, October 22nd
Alternate Exam 3: Wednesday, November 18th
[5] Deadline for Section Changes: October 27th