MAT 175 - Calculus

Instructor: Barbara Zubik-Kowal

Office: MG 241 B, Phone: 426-1018

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

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

Tutoring: very important help by Kif Ewing, tel.:440-2370, email:Kif_Ewing@yahoo.com, hours: 11:40am-2:00pm, the location of the study session is in the gateway center which is the red building on the other side of University drive, across from the Math building. It's a small building and if you go down the hall to the left you will see Kif's room. The sessions start on 09/05/2006.
 

• 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 : 09/18/2006	Chapters 6-7.
Test 2 : 10/23/2006	Sections 7.5,7.7,7.8 and Chapters 8,10
Homework	Click the link to have the list of homework assignments
Final Exam : 12/13/2006, 10:30am-12:30pm	Chapters 6-8, 10-11.

Grading Policy
Two 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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