Math 124G - Calculus I - Autumn 2012

Lectures

Monday/Wednesday/Friday
11:30 - 12:20
Electrical Engineering
Room 105

Instructor

Patrick T. Perkins
Communications B-014
Phone: 206-685-4703
perkins "at" math.washington.edu

Topics

Solutions to the 2nd Midterm Exam: version 1, version 2
Solutions to the 1st Midterm Exam.

Calculator Policy
The Course
Syllabus and Homework Assignments
Office Hours
Grades
Homework
Quizzes and Exams
Quiz Section and TA's
The Textbook

Math 124 Materials Website This website has a large number of quizzes and exams from previous quarters.
WebAssign All the homework will be assigned here.
Worksheets All the worksheets in one big PDF file.
Final Exam Date, Ground Rules and Rooms.

The Course

This course is an introduction to differential calculus. We will talk about functions and their derivatives, as well as related ideas like limits and continuity. In addition to the usual facts about derivatives, like the product rule and the chain rule, we will spend quite a bit of time talking about applications. This means the homework will involve a lot of story problems, particularly later on in the quarter. If you want a good grade in this class, you should expect to spend about 10 hours a week on homework.

Grades

Your grade is determined by how you do relative to the class as a whole. Grades will be based on total points earned. There are 320 possible points:

Worksheets--20
Homework--50
Quizzes--50
2 Midterms--50 points each
Final--100

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Homework

will be assigned daily, see the WebAssign site for the problems due. You are responsible for all the problems assigned (ie: any of it could appear on the exams). The problems assigned during the week will be due at 11pm on the following Wednesday.

Quizzes and Exams

There will be a 20 minute quiz every Thursday, except for the weeks of the exams. These will usually cover the homework from the preceeding week. They will be very similar to the homework problems. The TA's will grade them and return them to you the following Tuesday. The quizzes are closed book/closed notes. There are no make up quizzes, but I do drop your lowest quiz score.
There will be 2 midterm exams. They will be given on the dates listed in the syllabus. They are meant to take 50 minutes but you can take the full 80 minutes of Quiz Section. You must bring a Photo ID to all exams.
The final exam will take place from 1:30pm to 4:20pm on Saturday, Dec. 8. Note that this is not the time listed in the final exam schedule. It will be held in Anderson 223.

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Rules for taking exams

You are allowed to use one handwritten 8.5 by 11 sheet of notes.
Graphing calculators are not allowed on exams or quizzes. You may use a scientific calculator.
All cases of suspected academic misconduct ("cheating") will be reported to the Dean's Office.
There are no make-up exams. If you have a compelling and well-documented reason for missing a test, speak to the professor about it.

Quiz section

On Tuesdays and Thursdays you will meet with a Teaching Assistant in a smaller group. This gives you a chance to get more of your questions answered. Tuesday's quiz section will be 80 minutes long so that, in addition to getting help with your homework, there will be time for a worksheet that you can work on while the TA circulates and answers questions. Most weeks there will be a quiz on Thursday. The midterm exams will be held in Quiz Section.

The TA's are:

Sections	Name	Office	Email
GA & GB	Örn Arnaldsson	GUG 407	orna "at" uw.edu
GC & GD	Wenqian Gao	PDL C-8F	wg5 "at" uw.edu
GE	Leonard Wong	PDL C-552	wongting "at" uw.edu

Text

Calculus, Early Transcendentals by James Stewart
(The Seventh Edition).

You can also use the smaller Single Variable Calculus but only if you are sure you will not be taking Math 126.

Calculators

You will need a scientific calculator for Math 124. It must have trigonometric functions, like Sin and Cos, as well as logarithms and exponentials (ln and exp). I recommend the Texas Instruments TI-30X IIS, which costs about $10 on Amazon. The Sharp EL243SB is also a good choice. It is a little less easy to use, but costs only $5. Graphing calculators are not allowed on quizzes and exams in Math 124 this Autumn. A graphing calculator is any device with a multiline display that has the ability to graph mathematical functions. Examples are the TI-85 or the HP-50G. See your instructor before the first quiz if you are not certain if your calculator is acceptable.

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Mathematics Department

University of Washington