MAT 175 - Calculus

Instructor: Barbara Zubik-Kowal

Office: MG 220 A, Phone: 426-2802

Office Hours: MTW 10:40-11:30

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

• Applications of integration
• Techniques of integration
• Further applications of integration
• Parametric equations and polar coordinates
• Sequences and series

Upon completion of this course, students should:
• Be adept at finding antiderivatives in the easy cases
• Be able to use tables to find antiderivatives for more difficult cases
• Set up as definite integrals those common application problems involving volumes of rotation, arc length, surface area, work
• Have an intuitive understanding of the definitions of limit of a sequence and sum of an infinite series
• Be able to find intervals of convergence of power series using ratio, root, comparison and integral tests
• Have an understanding of polar coordinates and the calculus of functions described in those coordinates

 
 

Tests, Quizzes (never dated), Homework, Final Exam
Test 1 : 09/19/2005	Chapter 6, Sections 1-5; Chapter 7, Sections 1-2
Test 2 : 10/17/2005	Chapter 7, Sections 3,4,5,7,8; Chapter 8 Sections 1,2,3.
Test 3 : 11/14/2005	Chapters 10 and 11.
Homework	Click the link to have the list of homework assignments
Final Exam : 12/14/2005, 8:00-10:00am	The chapters and sections listed above for the three tests.

Grading Policy
Three tests and quizzes	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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