Math 135 -- Calculus 1            

 

M,W,F – 10:50-12:05 Eng 109

 

Instructor:  Jim Daly

Office: EAS 278

Phone - 262.3428

Email - jdaly@uccs.edu

Office Hours - MW 12:30 - and by appointment

Text -- Single Variable Essential Calculus - Early Transcendentals by James Stewart

 

COURSE STRUCTURE

 

I will lecture on Mondays and Wednesdays. Fridays will be examples and questions led by instructor Erin Bolz.

 

Homework is due each Monday and will be returned on Friday. See the course schedule for specific assignments. Selected problems will be graded each week - not the entire assignment. The answer is not the most important thing. They can be obtained just about anywhere (a classmate or the solution manual for example) and many problems can be worked in multiple ways. A portion of each Friday is set aside for you to ask questions about your homework assignment that is due on Monday. Before Friday therefore, you should have come to lecture on Monday and Wednesday, read the appropriate sections of the text, and tried the first few problems from each section of that week's assignment.    No late homework is accepted; however, the two lowest homework scores will be dropped (for example if you missed two homework assignments, those scores of 0 will be dropped).

 

There will be 3 regular exams and a comprehensive final. The course will cover portions of Chapters 1-5 of the text.  Each regular exam will account for 20% of your grade. The final will account for 30%. Homework will account for 10%. There are no make-up exams. If you know you cannot make a given exam, arrangements can be made to take the exam early, but never late.  If you miss an exam, then the other grades will take on proportionally more weight. The down side is that you will get no benefit of doubt at the end of the semester. For example if you are a borderline A-B and you have missed an exam, you will receive a grade of B for the semester. Under no circumstances can you miss the final.

Link to calculus readiness page.  Review here to be sure you have the necessary precalculus skills to succeed in Calculus 1 - http://www.uccs.edu/~math/refresher.html.

 

Supplemental Instruction sessions -- Monday 1:30 – 3:00 & Tuesday 8:00 – 9:15 in Engineering 239

Free tutoring is available in the Mathematics Learning Center. See the Center door for actual hours.

Schedule

 

Week

Dates

Sections

Assignment

Due Date

1

Aug 24-28

C1 sec 1-2

  p8 - 1-7,19-41 odd, p21 - 9,11,21-47 odd

Aug 31

2

Aug 31-Sep 4

C1 sec 3,4

 p33 1,3,11,21   p43 1-19odd

Sep 9

3

Sep 9-11

C1 sec 5,6

  p54 - 3,5  p66 - 1,3,5,13-21odd

Sep 14

4

Sep 14-18

C2 sec 1,2

  p80 - 1,4,7,9,15,17,19,23  p91 - 1,3,17,19,27

Sep 21

5

Sep 21-26

C2 sec 3,4

  p104 - 1-35 odd, 41,43  p111 - 3-29 odd

Sep 28

6

Sep 28-Oct2

C2 sec 5,6

p119 1-49odd,  p125 1-17 odd  

Oct 5

7

Oct 5-9

C2  sec 7,8

 p131 1-7odd,13,15  p137 1-13 odd

Oct 12

8

Oct 12-16

C3 sec 1,2 Exam C1,2 on wed

p147 3-11odd  p159 21-27odd, 39,43,45

 Oct 19

9

Oct 19-23

C3 sec 3,4

 p166 1-41odd, p174 1,3

Oct 26

10

Oct 26-Oct30

C3 sec 5,6

 p180 1-5 odd, 17-25 odd, 31,33,39  p185  1-5odd, 27-39 odd ***

Nov 2

11

Nov 2-6

C3 sec 7,C4 sec 1

p193 1-31 odd, p203 3,5,7,23-29 odd

Nov 9

12

Nov 9-13

C4 sec 2,3 Exam C3 on wed

  p210 1,3,11,13  p217 1-7 odd

Nov 16

13

Nov 16-20

C4 sec3, 4,5,6

 p225 1-15 odd  p232 3,5,9  p240 5,11

Nov 23

14

Nov 23

.C4 sec5, 7

 

Nov 30

15

Nov 30-Dec 4

C5 sec 1,2 Exam C4 on Wed

 

Dec 7

16

Dec 7-11

C5 3,4,5

 

 

17

 

 

 Final Exam Dec 14 10:50-1:20

 

 

*** signed drop slips are available in the math department office

Topics for Exam 1 - derivatives, limits, rules of diff.-sum, product, quotient, chain, tangent lines, linear approx., related rates,

                                implicit diff.,   differentials

                            Review problems - p71 - 21-33odd, p140 11-47 every 4th

Topics for Exam 2 - derivatives including exponential, logarithmic, inverse trig, and hyperbolic functions, exponential growth and

                     decay, limits with L'Hospital's rule

                          Review problems - p196 21-47odd,57,63,67-81odd.

Topics for Exam 3 - Max-min values, critical points, points of inflection, concavity, curve sketching, optimization, mean value

                    theorem, Newton's method, antiderivatives

                          Review problems - p248 1-13odd,37,38,39,47,49-55odd

Additional topics for Final Exam - areas, definite integrals, average value, Riemann sums, Fundamental theorem of calculus,

                     substitution rule.

                     Review problems - p302 7-31 odd, 35,37,41

 

Some interesting applets for calculus at http://www.stewartcalculus.com/tec/