Math 1100-02 (Fall 2004)

MWF 8:35-9:25, AEB 350
Office Hours: M 10-11, Th 9-10 (or by appointment)
My office is JWB 205


This webpage is the designated page for Math 1100-02. I am the course instructor, and will be posting homework assignments, quiz/test dates, and changes to the syllabus here. If you are a student in this class and have questions, please come by. If the scheduled office hours won't work for you, email me or just stop in to make an appointment.

This is the syllabus in pdf format.

Many students have expressed grief about the prerequisite material. This file talks about the basic algebra one needs to know for this class. Don't feel like you need to be experts on this material, but realize that you will do a lot of problems that use this material, and by so doing, you will hopefully get much better. The more comfortable you are now, the better.



News & Announcements

  • In addition to office hours, I will be in the Tutoring Center on Thursdays from 2:00 to 3:00.

  • On Mondays and Tuesdays between 6 PM and 7 PM there is a designated group tutoring session for our class. Take specific problems and questions for additional help. It appears, regrettably, that only a couple of people are taking advantage of this great opportunity.

  • Please take the opportunity to work a problem on the board during class. If for no other reason, it will at least give you some "extra credit" if your final grade is on a borderline.

  • I made the following handout on integration and finding the area under a curve. There are two parts: handout and figures

  • We will be holding a review session for the final on Friday December 10 from 8:00 to 10:00 am. The room will be LCB 215. Please bring any questions you may have.


    • Finishing Touches:

    Homework

    13.3 #1-12, 13.6#1-15 odd, 13.7 #1-10

    Quiz

    Wednesday, December 8. For many students this last quiz can have a big impact on your grade going into the final, so study hard. It will cover material from the homework above.

    Final Exam

    8:00-10:00 am: Wednesday, December 15 (in our regular classroom.) In order to do well on the final, you should go back and review all of the old material. Old exams and quizzes should be particularly helpful, as well as this review. (When I turned this file into a .pdf document the exponents got a little messed up.)

    Remember that the tutoring center will be closed during finals week, and graphing calculators are NOT permitted for the final.

    The following are some suggestions on how to prepare for the final:

  • Create a list of all definitions, properties and formulas. It would include things such as the definition of what it means for a function to be continuous, the definition of the derivative, limit properties, properties of the logarithm, rules of differentiation: chain rule, product rule, quotient rule, etc., formulas for setting up the left and right sums, formula for integration by parts, the first and second derivative tests, and everything else...
  • Go over all of the old tests and quizzes. This is the stuff that I thought was important when we were covering it before. Chances are, I still view this as the important material.
  • Study!!! It is very likely that you have forgotten many of the concepts that we went over during the first part of the class. Try to memorize your list of definitions, properties and formulas, and work through specific problems.

    • Come see me if you have questions. Good Luck!!!



    Quizzes

    Friday, September 3 (Covering sections 9.1 and 9.2)
    Friday, September 17 (Covering sections 9.3, 9.4 and 9.5)
    Monday, October 11 (The First and Second Derivative Tests)
    Wednesday, October 20 (sections 10.3, 10.5, 11.1 and 11.2)
    Monday, October 25 (This will be take two on problem 3 of quiz #4.)
    Wednesday, November 10 (sections 11.4, 12.1-12.3)
    Monday, November 22 (sections 12.3, 12.5 & 13.1)
    Wednesday, December 8 (sections 13.3, 13.6, 13.7)

    Midterm Exams

    Monday, September 27 (Covering Chapter 9 Sections 1 to 8.)
    Friday, October 29 (Chapter 10 and sections 11.1 to 11.3.)
    Wednesday, December 1 (11.4-13.2 ommitting sections not discussed in class)

    Homework

    Chapter 13

    Sections 13.3, 13.6, 13.7 see above

    Chapters 11, 12 & 13 (board problems in parentheses)

    Section 11.4 #1-21 odd (7, 11, 19)
    Section 12.1 #1-39 odd (21, 23, 25, 31)
    Section 12.2 #1-31 odd 37, 39 (7, 23, 31)
    Section 12.3 #1-39 odd (9, 15, 23)
    Section 12.5 #1-25 odd (3, 9, 13, 25, 31)
    Section 13.1 #1-31 odd (3, 7, 15, 17, 21)
    Section 13.2 #1-43 odd (9, 15, 23, 29)
    Section 13.3 #1-25 odd (7, 15, 23)

    Chapters 10 & 11

    Section 10.1 #1-35 odd, 43, 45, 47
    Section 10.2 #1-10, 11-23 odd, 29
    Section 10.5 #1, 5-23 odd; Section 10.3 #1-4, 5, 7
    Section 10.4 #21, 27, 29, 31
    Section 11.1 #1-45 odd
    Section 11.2 #1-39 odd
    Section 11.3 #1-49 odd
    Section 11.4 #1-21 odd

    Chapter 9

    Section 9.1 #1-11 odd, 17-37 odd, 52, 53, 54 (try solving 39, 41, 43 algebraically.)
    Section 9.2 #3-21 odd, 31-37 odd
    Section 9.3 #3-17 odd, 25-37 odd
    Section 9.4 #1-29 odd, 43, 49
    Section 9.5 #1-29 odd, 43, 45 (Also, try #41 and the Checkpoint Questions on page 682.)
    Section 9.6 #1-31 odd (don't worry about graphing on 29,31), 37, 39
    Section 9.7 #1-43 odd
    Section 9.8 #1-41 odd (Just find the indicated derivatives on 31, 33)

    Final Examination

    8:00-10:00 am: Wednesday, December 15 (in our regular classroom)