MATH 150 - FALL 07

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Syllabus

Read it, it is in pdf format.

Homework

• Online homework (10% of the final grade) is due (almost) weekly. It is your responsibility to check the due dates. Homeworks are due at 11:55 pm of the due date. Arguments such as 'my computer crashed the night before' or 'my clock said it wasn't midnight' will not be accepted : do not leave your job for the last minute.
  To register for the homework follow the instructions here. You'll need the following keys:
  • sections: 150-513-518 key: E-YN73CUUA5G25G
  • sections: 150-519-524 key: E-5G9R6NMJQJA4C
  To do your homework, go to www.ilrn.com.
  If you have a question relating to the ThomsonNOW system or if you have a computer problem, email Mrs Janice Epstein at j-epstein@tamu.edu. Please include your name, your section number, and my name in any emails to her.
• Additionally, I strongly urge you do the problems which are here. Print this page and keep it in your notebook. You can ask questions about these problems in recitation.

Help

Please use and abuse of the

1. Week in review
2. Help sessions
   

Material

Here is an outline of the material which we will cover and which will be on the exams.

• Week 1: 1.1 - 1.5. Topics covered: real numbers, exponents, rational expressions, and equations.
  
  
• Week 2: 1.6 - 1.10. Topics covered: modeling with equations, inequalities, coordinate geometry, solving equations and inequalities graphically.
  
  
• Week 3: 2.1 - 2.5. Topics covered: functions, variations, average rate of change, transformations of functions.
  
  
• Week 4: 2.6 - 2.8, Extreme values of functions, combining functions, 1-1 functions and inverses.
  
  
• Week 5: 3.1 - 3.2. Review, EXAM I, graph of polynomial functions, dividing polynomials.
  
  
• Week 6: 3.3 - 3.6. Topics covered: real zeros, complex numbers, complex zeros, rational functions.
  
  
• Week 7: 4.1 - 4.4. Topics covered: exponential functions, logarithmic functions, laws of logarithms, exponential and logarithmic equations
  
• Week 8: 4.5 - 5.4. Topics covered: modeling with exponential and logarithmic equations, unit circle, trgonometric functions of real numbers, trigonometric graphs.
  
  
• Week 9: 6.1-6.2, Review, EXAM II. Topics covered: angle measure and trigonomtry of right angles.
  
  
• Week 10: 6.3 - 7.2. Topics covered: Trigonometry: law of sines, law of cosines, trigonometric identities, addition and subtraction formulas.
  
  
• Week 11: 7.3 - 7.5. Topics covered: double -angle, half-angle, product and sum formulas, inverse, trigonometric functions, trigonometric equations
  
• Week 12: 8.4 - 9.1. Topics covered: vectors, dot product, system of equations
  
  
• Week 13: 9.9 , Topics covered: system of inequalities and review for Exam 3
  
  
• Week 14: 10.1 - 10.2. Exam 3, parabolas, ellipses.
  
  
• Week 15: 10.3 Topics covered: Hyperbolas, Review, Reading day, Finals
  
• Week 16: FINALS

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