Math 155: Spring 2000
Elementary Calculus

Course information

Course: Math 155/0101: Elementary Calculus
Time/Place: TuTh 10:00am-11:15am, SS 206
Instructor: Dr. Rouben Rostamian
Office: MP 417
Phone: 410-455-2458
Email: rostamian@umbc.edu
Office hours: TuTh: 11:15-12:00 and by appointment

All done!

Announcement of May 26:

I have graded the final exam and determined your course grades. Grades are posted on the bulletin board outside my office door.

Have a great summer!

Grading policy

Homeworks will be assigned in class at each lecture. You are expected to work out the assigned problems, but solutions will not be collected. You will be given eleven in-class quizzes based on the homework assignments, according to the schedule in the syllabus. There will be no make-up quizzes but three lowest quiz scores will be dropped.

The course grade will be computed as follows:

oEight quizzes at @ 15 points each120 points
oExams 1 @ 100 points100 points
oExams 2 @ 100 points100 points
oFinal exam @ 150 points150 points
oTotal possible score470 points

The usual 90-80-70-60% grading system will be used for assigning course grades. You can use the math 155 course grade calculator to predict/calculate your couse grade.

Syllabus

Textbook: Applied Calculus: Brief by John C. Hegarty
Date Sections covered Notes
1Feb 11.1, 1.2 Functions & graphs
2Feb 31.3 Applications
3Feb 81.4 Quadratic functions
4Feb 101.5 Other functionsQuiz 1
5Feb 152.1 Limits
6Feb 172.4 The derivativeQuiz 2
7Feb 223.1 The power rule
8Feb 243.2 The product and quotient rulesQuiz 3
9Feb 293.3 The chain rule
10Mar 2(Note added 2/29) Will cover up to, and including, Sec 2.4Exam 1
11Mar 73.4 Marginal analysis
12Mar 93.5, 3.6 Higher derivatives & Implicit differentiationQuiz 4
13Mar 144.1 Maxima and minima
14Mar 164.2 OptimizationQuiz 5
--Mar 21Gone fishing :-)Spring Break
--Mar 23Ditto!!Spring Break
15Mar 284.3 Inflection points
16Mar 304.4 Curve sketchingQuiz 6
17Apr 45.1 Exponential functions
18Apr 6Exam 2
19Apr 115.2 Logarithmic functions
20Apr 135.3 Derivatives of exponential functionsQuiz 7
21Apr 185.4 Derivatives of logarithmic functions
22Apr 205.5 ApplicationsQuiz 8
23Apr 255.6 Newton's method
24Apr 276.1 The antiderivativeQuiz 9
25May 26.2 Area under a curve
26May 46.3 The integralQuiz 10
27May 96.4 Area between two curves
28May 11ReviewQuiz 11
29May 16Slack
30May 23 8:00am--10:00am Final Exam

Homework assigments

Date Homework assigned
1Feb 1Section 1.1: #1,3,5,7,19-28, 30
2Feb 3Section 1.2: #1,2,6,14,31,36,39
3Feb 8Section 1.3: #1,3,4,6,11
4Feb 10Section 1.4: #2,4,9,10,37,38,39,40
Section 1.5: # 21,23,30,32
5Feb 15No HW assigned today
6Feb 17Section 2.1: #17,21,23,24,26,27,28 + one assigned in class
7Feb 22Section 2.4: #5,7,13,17,19,21,25,28,30
8Feb 24Section 3.1: #3,7,10,12,13,14,17,23,27,29,54,55,56
9Feb 29No new HW assigned today
10Mar 2No new HW assigned today
11Mar 7Section 3.2: #3,5,13,14,19,27
12Mar 9Section 3.3: #3,5,13,17,19,23,24,26
13Mar 14Section 3.5: #3,5,8,11,13,17
Section 3.6: #2,3,6,17,18,21
14Mar 16Section 4.1: #7,11,13,19
Mar 21Spring Break
Mar 23Spring Break
15Mar 28Section 4.1: #23,25,27,31
16Mar 30Section 4.2: #1,6,7,9,10,13,14,15
17Apr 4No new HW assigned today
18Apr 6No new HW assigned today
19Apr 11Section 4.3: #3,5,7,9,15,17,19,21,23-31
20Apr 13No additional HW assigned today
21Apr 18Section 5.1: #1,2,3,6-17,21,23-26,35,37
22Apr 20No new HW assigned today
23Apr 25Section 5.2: #41-48,49,50,51,55,56,63,64
24Apr 27Section 5.3: #1,3,5,8,9,10,12,15,16,21,22
Section 5.4: #1,3,4,5,9,13,15,16,17,19,20,21
25May 2Section 6.1: #3-22
Section 6.2: #3,5,6,7,9,17,19
26May 4No new HW assigned today
27May 9Section 6.3: 13,15,16,17,18,19,33,34,35,36
28May 11Section 6.4: 1,4,13,15,16,17,19
29May 16Last day of classes: Question/Answer period
The URL of this document is http://www.math.umbc.edu/~rouben/2000-01-math155/index.html
This page created on Jan 19, 2000 -- it will be updated frequently throughout the semester
Author: rostamian@umbc.edu