INSTRUCTOR: Andy Long. Office: ST 328; phone: 572-5794; email: longa@nku.edu
MEETING TIME/PLACE:
LEC MWF 12:00-12:50PM ST 246
TR 12:15-01:30PM ST 246
EXPECTED BACKGROUND: B or better in MAT 119 (preferred), or MAT 118, or equivalent; or placement. If you have doubts or concerns about your background, please see me as soon as possible.
TEXT: Calculus, fourth edition, by James Stewart. We will cover most of chapters 1-7, making use of the TI-92 or TI-89 calculators (if you do not have one of these, one will be loaned to you).
GRADING: There will be three exams and a comprehensive final. Homework will be assigned regularly, and some homework assignments will be handed in so that a few homework problems (chosen at random) may be graded. To encourage you to read the textbook, a directed reading worksheet for each reading assignment will be provided. On randomly chosen occasions, a short quiz will be administered at the beginning of class, based on this worksheet. If you have prepared the worksheet ahead of time, you should do fine on the quiz; if not, well...I will drop your two worst quizzes. We'll have have a quiz on approximately 1/3 of the possible occasions.
Your course grade will be determined as follows:
| Homework/Quizzes | 15% |
| Three Exams | 60% |
| Final | 25% |
The tests will be given in class, closed book. Make-up exams will not be given except in extreme circumstances. If I excuse a student from an exam (again, for some extreme reason), the student's course grade will be calculated based on the rest of the semester's work.
HOMEWORK: Homework will be assigned almost daily. You should expect to do a lot of homework, and to do it regularly, in order to do well in the course. You should also expect to go to the board often in this class: we will often spend class time at the board, attempting problems together.
ATTENDANCE: The student is responsible for all material assigned or discussed in class. Attendance will be taken, and may be used along with class effort (as measured by participation - asking questions, answering other students' questions, group work, etc.) to resolve borderline grades.
WITHDRAWAL: The last day to withdraw from any class with a "W" is 3/28/2003. After that day it is not usually permitted.
OFFICE HOURS: MWF 10:00-11:30, TR 10:40-11:30. I am also available by appointment, and at random when approached with a smile.
Notes:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 1/13: Introductions/ Preview | 1/14: Function basics (Section 1.1) | 1/15: Functions as models for reality (whatever that is!): Section 1.2 | 1/16: Calculus in a day: the Mazda Project | 1/17: Functions upon functions (compositions, section 1.3). |
| 1/20: No Class: Martin Luther King Day | 1/21: More savage beasts from the function zoo. | 1/22: Functions that do flips (Section 7.1, p. 407-411) | 1/23: Function Practicum (CBL?) | 1/24: Have you hit your limit? (Section 2.1/2.2) |
| 1/27: Ugly, craggy functions (Section 2.2) | 1/28: Discovering limit laws (Section 2.3) | 1/29: Smoothness (Section 2.5) | 1/30: Limit your exercise, or exercise your limits? (Section 2.6) | 1/31: Derivatives as numbers (slopes - Section 3.1) |
| 2/3: Derivatives as functions (Section 3.2) | 2/4: Discovering differentiation laws (Section 3.3) | 2/5: Review | 2/6: Exam 1 (through 3.1) | 2/7: Derivatives of trig functions (Section 3.5) |
| 2/10: Rates of change (Section 3.4) | 2/11: Applications of rates of change | 2/12: Derivatives upon derivatives (Section 3.8) | 2/13: Where should a pilot start descent? (p. 199) | 2/14: Workin' on a chain rule (Section 3.6) |
| 2/17: No class: Presidents' Day | 2/18: Applications of related rates (Section 3.9) | 2/19: More related rates (Section 3.9) | 2/20: Taylor Series lab (p. 213) | 2/21: Optimization (max/mins: (Section 4.1) |
| 2/24: The Calculus of Rainbows (p. 232) | 2/25: Optimization problems | 2/26: Mean value theorem (Section 4.2) | 2/27: Shaped by the derivative (Section 4.3) | 2/28: Extreme limits (Section 4.4) |
| 3/3: Summary of curve sketching (Section 4.5) | 3/4: The shape of a can (p. 287) | 3/5: Optimization (Section 4.7) | 3/6: Exam 2 (through 4.3) | 3/7: Root-finding (Section 4.9) |
| 3/10: Spring Break | 3/11: Spring Break | 3/12: Spring Break | 3/13: Spring Break | 3/14: Spring Break |
| 3/17: The Antiderivative (Section 4.10) | 3/18: Undoing derivatives | 3/19: Areas and distances (Section 5.1) | 3/20: Playing with approximations | 3/21: The definite integral (Section 5.2) |
| 3/24: Area functions | 3/25: The fundamental theorem (Section 5.3) | 3/26: The indefinite integral (Section 5.4) | 3/27: Substitute that! (Section 5.5) | 3/28:
More on substitution (withdrawal deadline) |
| 3/31: Areas between curves (Section 6.1) | 4/1: 3-d areas? (Section 6.2) | 4/2: More on volumes | 4/3: Slicing and dicing (Section 6.3) | 4/4: More on volumes |
| 4/7: Work (Section 6.4) | 4/8: Get to work! | 4/9: Review (was "Average values of functions (Section 6.5)") | 4/10: Exam 3 (through 6.3) | 4/11: Back to the inverse (Section 7.1) |
| 4/14: The Exponential function (Section 7.2) | 4/15: The need for speed: applications of exponentials | 4/16: The Logarithmic function (Section 7.3) | 4/17: Applications of logs (including slide rules!) | 4/18: Derivatives of logs (Section 7.4) |
| 4/21: Inverse trig functions (Section 7.5) | 4/22: Where to sit at the movies (p. 478) | 4/23: Hyperbolic functions - no exaggeration! (Section 7.6) | 4/24: When limits get ugly (Section 7.7) | 4/25: The gory details of ugly limits (Section 7.7) |
| 4/28: Additional applications (e.g. Newton's method, section 4.9), | 4/29: | 4/30: Review (old stuff) | 5/1: Review (medium stuff), Evaluations, and | 5/2: Review (new stuff) |
| 5/5: class poster session | 5/6:
No Class Call/Email |
5/7:
No Class With |
5/8:
No Class Questions! |
5/9: Final Exam: 10:10 -12:10 |