Mathematics 1050-1

Spring 2004

University of Utah

 

Instructor

Dr. David Levin

LCB 209

Telephone: 585-1647
levin at math dot utah dot edu
 

 

Course Time and Location

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:25-2:25 PM

JTB 310

 

Office Hours

Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:25-3:25 PM (Subject to change)

 

Final Examination

There is a common final for the daytime sections of Math 1050, on

Tuesday May 4 2004 3:30-5:30 PM

 

Deadlines

Drop date: January 21

Withdrawal deadline: March 5

 

Other dates

Spring Break, March 15-19

 

Exam Dates

Thursday 2/5/04, Thursday 3/4/04, Thursday 4/1/04, Tuesday 4/20/04 (Subject to change)

 

Attendance

Please do not arrive late or depart early from class.  This is extremely distracting for your instructor, and is disruptive to the class.  

 

Textbook

Larson and Hostetler, Precalculus, 6th edition.

 

Tutoring service

The math department offers free drop-in tutoring.  The tutoring center is located in the T. Benny Rushing Mathematics Center, between LCB and JWB on PresidentÕs Circle.  The center offers also very pleasant study and meeting space and a computer lab.  For more information check out

http://www.math.utah.edu/ugrad/mathcenter.html

or contact Angie Gardiner, 585-9478, gardiner@math.utah.edu.  Angie's office is in the center, adjacent to the tutoring and computing labs.

 

Grading

13 WeBWorK based homeworks, counting 3% each, four midterm exams counting 7% each, and the final exam counting 33%. 

 

ADA

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that reasonable accommodations be made for students with physical, sensory, cognitive, systemic, learning, and psychiatric disabilities. Please contact me at the beginning of the semester to discuss any such accommodations for the course



 

Schedule (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

Week

Date

Lecture

Topic

Textbook

 

1

Tu 01/13/04

1

Introduction and administrative matters. WebWorK

 

1

Th 01/15/04

2

Real Numbers. Exponentials and Radicals.

A1, A2

2

Tu 01/20/04

3

Polynomials and Factoring. Rational Expressions.

A3, A4

2

Th 01/22/04

4

Solving Equations. Quadratic Equations

A4, A5

3

Tu 01/27/04

5

Solving Inequalities. Pitfalls

A6, A7

3

Th 01/29/04

6

Cartesian Coordinates. Graphs of Linear Equations

1.1, 1.2.

4

Tu 02/03/04

7

Functions and Their Graphs.  Questions and Answers.

1.3, 1.4

4

Th 02/05/04

8

Exam 1.  More on Graphs.

1.6

5

Tu 02/10/04

9

Composition of Functions.  Inverse Functions.

1.7, 1.8

5

Th 02/12/04

10

Polynomials.  Synthetic Division

2.1, 2.2, 2.3

6

Tu 02/17/04

11

Complex Numbers.  Root Finding.

2.4,2.5

6

Th 02/19/04

12

Rational Functions.  Partial Fractions

2.6, 2.7

7

Tu 02/24/04

13

Exponential Functions. 

3.1

7

Th 02/26/04

14

Logarithms. 

3.2, 3.3

8

Tu 03/02/04

15

Exponential and Logarithmic Equations.  Questions and Answers

3.4

8

Th 03/04/04

16

Test 2.  More Exponential and Logarithmic Equations

3.4

9

Tu 03/09/04

17

Applications.  Catch up.

3.5

9

Th 03/11/04

18

Catch up.

 

10

Tu 03/16/04

19

No Class.

 

10

Th 03/18/04

20

No Class.

 

11

Tu 03/23/04

21

Linear Systems of Equations.  More on Linear Systems of Equations.

7.1, 7.2, 7.3

11

Th 03/25/04

22

Yet more on Linear Equations

7.2, 7.3

12

Tu 03/30/04

23

Systems of Inequalities.  Questions and Answers

7.4, 7.5.

12

Th 04/01/04

24

Exam 3.  Matrices

8.1

13

Tu 04/06/04

25

Matrix Inverses.  Determinants

8.3, 8.4

13

Th 04/08/04

26

More on Determinants.  Applications

8.5, 8.6

14

Tu 04/13/04

27

Sequences and Series. Arithmetic Sequences.

9.1, 9.2

14

Th 04/15/04

28

Geometric Sequences.  Questions and Answers

9.3

15

Tu 04/20/04

29

Exam 4. Mathematical Induction.

9.4

15

Tu 04/22/04

30

More Inductions.  Binomial Theorem.

9.5

16

Tu 04/27/04

31

Catchup and Questions and Answers.