Summer 2008 - MAT 125 (Calculus A)

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Class:			MAT 125 (Calculus A)
Instructor:			Brandon Williams
Grader:			Carl Hammarsten
Class Time:			Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 6:00 - 8:15 PM in Physics P127
Office Hours:			TBA, or by appointment

Textbook:
James Stewart, Calculus, Concepts and Contexts: Single Variable, third edition, Brooks-Cole Publishing.

Course Description:
This course continues what you learned from precalculus to work towards understanding limits, continuity and derivatives. We will very briefly review some precalculus, such as functions, exponentials and logarithms, and some trigonometry. We will then develop the basic notions of limits and derivatives, and try to understand what these mean geometrically. Next we will develop methods for finding derivatives of most functions. Finally, we will cover some applications of derivatives.

Policy:
Problems will be posted below each week, but are not due at any time. Instead, there will be weekly quizzes given every Monday. The quizzes will be roughly 10-15 minutes, and will be based on the previous week's homework problems. There are 5 quizzes in total, but the lowest quiz grade will be dropped. The final exam will be given on the last day of class (August 21st). Each quiz will be worth 15 points and the final will be worth 40 points, for a possible 100 points total.

Final Information:
The final will be given in class on August 21th at 6:00pm. You have 2 hours to complete the exam, which consists of 20 problems, each worth 2 points. Calculators are not allowed, but you can have one index card for formulas. A list of topics on the final can be found here, and a sample final can be found here. Another sample final can be found here (this is the sample final from a previous MAT 125 class).

Syllabus (Tentative):

Week	Class	Material	Problems
1	July 14	1.1 - 1.4	1.1: 18, 21, 27, 43, 57 1.2: 3, 9, 19 1.3: 3, 6, 13, 18, 37 1.4: none 1.5: 10, 12, 16, 17 1.6: 9, 13, 17, 23, 25, 34, 36, 39, 48, 50 Appendix C: 1(a), 3(b), 4(a), 11, 12, 13, 21, 23, 41, 45 2.1: 2, 4 2.2: 4, 5, 6, 10
	July 16	1.5, 1.6, Appendix C
	July 17	2.1, 2.2
2	July 21	Quiz, 2.3, 2.4	2.3: 1 (e, f, h), 5, 7, 8, 15, 16, 21, 22, 31, 45 2.4: 3, 13, 14, 16, 27, 28, 33 2.5: 4, 7, 10, 15, 19, 21, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33 2.6: 6 (a, b), 7, 9, 17, 2.7: 3, 6, 13, 15, 23, 35, 36 2.8: 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 22, 31, 32, 33, 37
	July 23	2.5, 2.6
	July 24	2.7, 2.8
3	July 28	Quiz, 2.9, 3.1	2.9: 1, 2, 4, 11, 12, 15, 19, 21, 25, 28, 3.1: 3, 5, 7, 9, 14, 23, 28, 32, 41, 46, 48, 57, 68 3.2: 3, 8, 9, 18, 29, 30, 34, 41, 42 3.4: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 18, 28
	July 30	3.2, 3.4
	July 31	CANCELED
4	August 4	Quiz, 3.5, 3.6	3.5: 2, 5 7, 10, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, 53, 54 3.6: 3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 16 3.7: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 15, 17 3.8: 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 4.1: 1, 3, 4, 8, 13, 16 4.2: 3, 4, 11, 14, 21, 23, 27, 29, 33, 39, 43, 44, 45, 49, 60
	August 6	3.7, 3.8
	August 7	4.1, 4.2
5	August 11	Quiz, 4.3, 4.4	4.3: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 4.4: NONE 4.5: 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 23, 25, 41, 42 ,43 4.6: 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 13, 14, 21 4.8: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
	August 13	4.5
	August 14	4.6, 4.8
6	August 18	Quiz, 4.9	4.9: 1, 3, 5, 7, 17, 19, 27
	August 20	Review
	August 21	Final Exam

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