• Course Instructor: Mingyang Li (mingyang.li@stonybrook.edu)

• Lecture time: TR 9:30 - 10:50

• Location: JAVITS LECTR 109

• Office hour: TR 8:30-9:30, SCGP 510. Please notify me by email first if you are coming.

Course Information

• Course Description:

The differential calculus and integral calculus, emphasizing conceptual understanding, computations and applications, for students who have the necessary background from 12th-year high school mathematics. Differentiation of elementary algebraic, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions; graphing; modeling and maximization; the Riemann integral; and the fundamental theorem. May not be taken for credit in addition to MAT 125 or 141 or AMS 151.

• Prerequisites:

In order to take MAT 131, you must have either:

• passed MAT 123 with a B or higher, or

• received a score of 5 or better on the mathematics placement examination.

• Textbook: 

Calculus: Concepts Contexts, 5th Edition (ISBN: 978-0-357-63249-9, Loose-leaf ISBN: 978-0-357-74896-1) by James Stewart and Stephen Kokoska. We will also be using WebAssign for online homework assignments this semester.

• Course Materials: 

WebAssign for Stewart's Calculus: Concepts and Contexts 5e (ISBN: 978-0-357-63249-9, Loose-leaf ISBN: 978-0-357-74896-1) OR Cengage Unlimited.

• Homework: 

Homework will be assigned according to the schedule below. It will be on Brightspace. There will be Webassign homework and Paper homework.

Grading System

• Midterm I: 25%

• Midterm II: 25%

• Final exam: 40%

• Homework: 10%

Exam Times

Schedule

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