Math 124: Calculus, Section 005; Fall 2005.

Time and Location: 9-950 AM in PAS 412.

Instructor:



Textbook: Calculus, Fourth Edition, by Hughes-Hallett et al., published by Wiley.

Course Syllabus
The syllabus will include information about grading policies, calculator policies, exam schedules and policies, etc. You should definitely read it.

Check out, if you want, the webpage for all of the 124 classes . There is all sorts of useful stuff there.

Homework: Homework assignements will be made weekly in class and posted here. Note: every week there will be 100 points of homework. No less than half, and very rarely all, of your homework points will come from these problems. The rest will come from frequent quizzes, group work assignements, and supplemental homeworks which will be announced in class and on this web page. (Believe it or not, this is designed to make your life easier). See the syllabus for more details.

Solutions to various homework problems will occasionally be posted here.

Here is a VERY approximate schedule ( part 1 and part 2 )of the sections to be covered (Sorry, I don't know why part 2 is so immense). The exam dates are locked in, however the specific dates that specific sections will be covered are very approximate.

Announcements:
  • There will be an algebra/trig exam in class on Tuesday, August 30th. Make sure you are there.
  • The first quiz will be in class on Friday, August 26th, covering sections 1.1-1.4. It will constitute 30% of your homework grade for week 1.
  • Monday the 5th is Labor Day. Enjoy your day off.
  • The first exam is Thursday September 15th in class. Make sure you bring a calculator.
  • Group assignment: The group assignment will be due Wednesday 9/21 in class. Come up with two examples of functions changing with respect to time (at least one of which involves money). For at least one, give an explicit function (doesn't have to be complicated or anything). Answer the following questions for each example: (1) What does the derivative measure? (2) How much does the quantity change over some particular interval? (3) How can we tell from the picute if f' > 0 or if f' < 0? (4) How can we tell from the equation if f is increasing or decreasing? (5) Give information about how the rate of change is increasing or decreasing. Write this up as if you were explaining this to someone who knows basic algebra, but not calculus.
  • There will be a quiz during the whole class time on Friday, October 30. It will be a bunch of problems, consisting entirely of doing derivatives using the tools we've learned, as quickly as possible.
  • There is no quiz on Friday, October 14th. Moreover, the omework will be due Tuesday, October 18th.
  • Here is the project that we will work on in class Friday October 14th and will be due Tuesday, October 18th.
  • Here are solutions to the practice final, courtesy of someone less lazy than me.