MATH 170 - Calculus

Instructor: Barbara Zubik-Kowal

Office: MG 220 A, Phone: 426-2802

Office Hours: MTW 11:40am-12:30pm

Textbooks: "Calculus, Early Transcendentals" 5th Edition by James Stewart, Brooks/Cole (2003)
 

• Limits and continuity
• Derivative rules for polynomials and transcendental functions
• Implicit differentiation, related rates, and approximations
• Applications of the derivative
• Introduction to Riemann sums, integration and antidifferentiation

 

Our first semester calculus course has the usual objectives of a calculus course which is used by other disciplines on campus. As a service course taken primarily by non-majors, MATH170 stresses neither the aesthetic side of  mathematics nor the idea that of mathematics as the study of patterns.

Through the course of the semester, successful students will be expected

•       To develop an understanding of the derivative and how it can be used in solving problems.
•       To understand the relationship between the derivative and the graph of a function.
•       To be sufficiently practiced in basic algebra to set up and solve equations and inequalities involving functions and their derivatives.
•       To recognize that the integral is an operator which can be approximated through Riemann sums and is (in a sense) an anti-derivative of the integrand.
•       To have mastered the basic formulae for differentiation and integration.

 

Tests, Homeworks, Final Exam
Test 1 : 02/07/2005	3 problems
Test 2 : 03/07/2005	3 problems
Test 3 : 04/11/2005	3 problems
Link to homework assignments	full solutions collected each Monday
Final Exam	6 problems

Grading Policy
Three tests	56 %
Homework	14 %
Final Exam	30 %
Total	100 %
A: 90% and above; B: 80%-90%; C: 70%-80%; D: 60%-70%; E: below 60%.

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