MATH 170 - Calculus

Spring 07

MTWF 8:40-9:30am, MG 108

Final Exam: May 9, 2007, 8:00-10:00am, MG108. Results

Instructor: Barbara Zubik-Kowal

Office: MG 241B, Phone: 426-2802

Office Hours: M,T,F 9:40-10:30am

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

Syllabus

(topics from Chapters 1-5 of Stewart's textbook)

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

Learning Objectives

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, Quizzes (never dated), Homework, Final Exam

Test 1 : 02/05/2007 Sections: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

Test 2 : 03/05/2007 Sections: all from 2.4 to 3.3

Test 3 : 04/09/2007 Sections: all from 3.4 to 4.2

Link to homework assignments Full solutions collected each Monday

Final Exam : 05/09/2007 Chapters: 1-5

Grading Policy

Three tests & quizzes 56 %

Homework 14 %

Final Exam 30 %

Total 100 %

A+: 97% and above; A: 93%-97%; A-: 90%-93%; B+: 87%-90%; B: 83%-87%; B-: 80%-83%; C+: 77%-80%; C: 73%-77%; C-: 70%-73%; D+: 67%-70%; D: 63%-67%; D-: 60%-63%; F: below 60%.

Tests, Quizzes (never dated), Homework, Final Exam
Test 1 : 02/05/2007	Sections: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Test 2 : 03/05/2007	Sections: all from 2.4 to 3.3
Test 3 : 04/09/2007	Sections: all from 3.4 to 4.2
Link to homework assignments	Full solutions collected each Monday
Final Exam : 05/09/2007	Chapters: 1-5

Grading Policy
Three tests & quizzes	56 %
Homework	14 %
Final Exam	30 %
Total	100 %
A+: 97% and above; A: 93%-97%; A-: 90%-93%; B+: 87%-90%; B: 83%-87%; B-: 80%-83%; C+: 77%-80%; C: 73%-77%; C-: 70%-73%; D+: 67%-70%; D: 63%-67%; D-: 60%-63%; F: below 60%.