MAT 140, Calculus I, Lecture 002
Fall 2001
Synopsis: Review of functions, limits, and
continuity. Differentiation: extremum problems, curve sketching,
differentials, related rates. Definite and indefinite integrals:
Riemann sums, initial-value problems, fundamental theorem, techniques of
integration. Applications of differentiation and integration to
physical problems. Use of symbolic manipulation and graphics
software in Calculus.
Note: This course uses MAPLE.
Lecturer:
Saeed Zakeri
Office: DRL 4N59, Tel. 3-9074.
Office Hours: Wed. 3-4 pm or by appointment.
Email:zakeri@math.upenn.edu
Teaching Assistants:
Jeremy Magland
Office: DRL 4N35 , Tel. 8-8200.
Email:jfm@math.upenn.edu
Scott Pollack
Office: DRL 4N9
Email:sbpollac@sas.upenn.edu
Text:
Calculus by Thomas & Finney, 9th ed.
Assignments of the week
Announcements:
- 12/13/2001: Information on the Final Exam, including a
practice test, has been posted.
- 12/5/2001: Here is the second MAPLE
project: Do problem 3 on page 203 of your Math 140 Lab Manual.
This project is due 12/17/2001.
- 12/4/2001: The common
Final Exam will be on Tuesday, Dec 18, 1:30-3:30pm. Soon I'll post
all the information you need, including a practice test. Also, there will be a comprehensive review session before the final. Time and place to be announced.
- 11/12/2001: Information on the second midterm, including a
practice test, has been posted.
- 11/8/2001: If you throw a ball upward in an environment with no air
resistance, the time it takes for the ball to reach its maximum height
will be equal to the time it takes for it to fall back to the ground
level. But what if there is some air resistance? Which one will be
faster: going up or coming down? Check out this
animated MAPLE project to see the answer. Give your browser a
few seconds to load the animations in Examples 1,2,3. Note that the
computations involve things that we haven't covered in this course.
But still it might be fun to observe the results.
- 11/8/2001: I will run a review session for the second midterm on
Monday 11/19/2001, 7:00-8:30pm in DRL A2. Feel free to attend!
- 11/7/2001: Here is the first MAPLE
project on Newton's Method: Do problems 16 and 17 on pages
194-195 of your Math 140 Lab Manual. This project is due 11/19/2001.
- 10/26/2001: The second midterm will
be on Tuesday 11/20/2001, 7:00-8:00 pm. Place to be announced. Check out
this page over the next week for information on the test as well as
sample problems.
- 10/25/2001: Our common
Final Exam will be on Tuesday, Dec 18, 2001.
- 10/2/2001: Information on the first midterm, including a
practice test, has been posted.
- 9/29/2001: The first midterm will be on Tuesday 10/9/2001, 7:00-8:00 pm. Place to be announced. Check out
this page over the next week for information on the test as well as sample problems.
- 9/10/2001: There will be
Maple Orientation sessions from 6:30pm to 8:45pm
on September 10-13 and September 17-20. On each of these days there will
be three 45-miniute sessions held at the DRL computer lab as well as
labs in various dorms around the campus. Sign up sheets
for the sessions will be posted outside DRL A1. Please do not sign up
for more than one session!
General Information:
- Lecture class meetings are Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 10:30-12:00 in DRL A1.
- You MUST be enrolled in and attend one of the
following recitation sections:
- Recitation 211 REC Monday 9-10am in DRL 2C6
- Recitation 212 REC Monday 10-11am in DRL 3C2
- Recitation 213 REC Wednesday 9-10am in DRL 2C8
- Recitation 214 REC Wednesday 10-11am in DRL 3C2
- Recitation 217 REC Wednesday 9-10am in BENN 325
- Recitation 218 REC Wednesday 10-11am BENN 325
- The Syllabus and Core Problems
are posted on the web, so are the old exams and solutions; see the
Math Department Math 140 page.
They are also included in your Maple Computer Manual.
- The exams will generally set at the level of the Core Problems.
The old exams are considered as part of the core problems.
- The schedules of the midterms and the final exam will be
announced here. The first midterm will be BEFORE October 12, which
is the last day to drop a course.
Basic Ground Rules:
- The Final grade is based on: Final exam (30%), two midterm exams
(20% each) and recitation (30%). Recitation grade will be heavily based
on the quizzes in recitation, as well as regular
homeworks and Maple homework. We will have our own midterms but the
final exam will be the same for all MATH 140 sections.
- Every week, during the last 5 minutes of your recitation, you will be
given a quiz on a homework problem from the previous week assignment.
The quizzes will be graded but the two worst scores will not be used in
calculating your final quiz grade. There will be no makeup quizzes.
In addition to the weekly in-class quizzes, there will be
two take-home Maple assignments which will be graded as regular quizzes.
The drop-two rule does not include the Maple assignments. The quizzes
will count as 25% of your final grade.
- Homeworks will be posted on the web every Thursday; you will have
a week to hand them in to your TA. You will need to use Maple to do few
of your homework problems. Maple is installed on all the campus computers,
and you may buy your own copy at a student discount price if you plan to
use a computer at home.
- Homeworks will be spot graded and returned in the recitation.
- LATE WORK (homework, Maple, etc..) will NEVER be accepted.
- Homework will contain instructions for reading.
Make sure you do the reading before the class for which
it is assigned. I will assume you have done so.
- You are responsible for doing all the core problems, including the
old exam problems, but you are not supposed to hand them in.
- You are encouraged to work in groups and discuss with each other.
However, the work that you hand in must be your own write up.
- Official
rules governing final examinations
- You can use a 5''x7'' note card (both sides) during the final
exam. Calculators are NOT allowed.
Grading notes: At the end of the semester, everyone who has
not withdrawn from the class will get a grade.
Incompletes will not be given to avoid F's.
Saeed Zakeri