Math 106: Calculus I for Biology and Social Science, 2024 Spring

Lecture Schedule and Homework Assignments | General Information and Syllabus

Instructor:     Fei Lu [ feilu##   ( ## = @math.jhu.edu) ]
Class meets:   MWF, 10-10:50, Remsen Hall 101
Office Hours: MWF 9-10:00    online/ Krieger 218
URL:          http://www.math.jhu.edu/~feilu/24Spring/calculus_106.html
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Section TA CA Time & Room

1 Su Jin [sjin23##] Junu Park [jpark314##] Tue 3:00 - 03:50pm, Shriver Hall 104

2 Ben Marlin [bmarlin1##] Andrew Gonzalez [agonza99##] Tue 04:30 - 05:20 pm, Gilman 400

3 Su Jin [sjin23##] Emily Stroud [estroud2##] Thu 3:00 - 03:50pm, Krieger 309

Section	TA	CA	Time & Room
1	Su Jin [sjin23##]	Junu Park [jpark314##]	Tue 3:00 - 03:50pm, Shriver Hall 104
2	Ben Marlin [bmarlin1##]	Andrew Gonzalez [agonza99##]	Tue 04:30 - 05:20 pm, Gilman 400
3	Su Jin [sjin23##]	Emily Stroud [estroud2##]	Thu 3:00 - 03:50pm, Krieger 309

Textbook: Calculus for Biology and Medicine, 4thEdition, C. Neuhauser and M. Roper, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, January 2018, ISBN-10: 0134070046, ISBN-13: 978-0134070049.
(Plan to cover Chapters 2-7. If you have another edition, please check if the homework assignments agree.)

Grading Policy: 10/11 homework assignments (25%), 10/11 Quizzes (15%), 3 Projects (10%); Midterm exams (20%) and a Final (30%). No make-ups on homework or exams.

Homework will be assigned every Monday and is due at the start of class the following Monday (see the schedule below).

Late submissions will not be accepted. There will be 11 assignments, with the lowest score being dropped in calculating your total grade.
To incentivize high performance on all assignments, the portion of your lowest score exceeding 50% will be added as extra credit to your homework grade. Each assignment is worth 20 points, of which 5 points are allocated for completeness and legibility.
You are strongly encouraged to collaborate in the analysis and study stage of homework preparation. However, you are required to submit completely original work, and must write up your homework for final submission alone. Both parties of copied homework will be assigned a score 0.

Quizzes take place each Friday at the beginning of the class, unless otherwise specified.

There will be 11 quizzes, with the lowest score being dropped. NO make-up quizzes.
You will receive a link to take the quiz in Canvas on the quiz days. Each quiz has 10 points. To incentivize high performance on all quizzes, the portion of your lowest score exceeding 50% will be added as extra credit to your total quiz grade.

Projects are writing assignments designed to fulfill the Foundational Abilities. Professor Emily Braley has provided examples. Also, the JHU Writing Center offers help.

There will be three projects focusing on limits and continuity, derivatives, and integration.
Projects will undergo peer review before grading. Each project is worth 30 points, and the revised versions submitted in the final week are worth 10 points. Details about each project will be provided in posts.

Exams are closed-book, but you are allowed one letter-sized, double-sided page of notes.

Midterm: March 13. Final: May 10, 9 am-12 pm.
There will be NO make-up exams. For excused absences, the grade for a missed exam will be 90% of the other exam's grade. Unexcused absences count as zero.

Please turn in homework assignments in the following format:

Present solutions with details. The homework will be graded based on the solution, not the final answer.
Box the final answer for each problem.

Academic Support : Check out the JHU PILOT Learning program and Learning Den. These web pages have information about academic support and tutoring. Furthermore, there is a math help room in Krieger 213. You are encouraged to make the best use of them.

Announcements: 2024-1-26: Please turn-in your homework to Gradescope in Canvas.

Tentative schedule (The lectures will likely be different from the schedule) 5.3 Extrema and Inflection Points

week	Topics	Quizzes	Homework	Due	Projects
Week 1 1/22, 24, 26	Chapter 1: Review of precalculus. real numbers, lines, circles trigonometry, elementary functions Graphing		hw1: 1.2: 6b, 52, 83, 102; 1.3: 6b, 18, 30, 43, 73; 1.4: 86ab	1/29
Week 2 1/29, 31, 2/2	2.1 Exponential Growth and Decay 2.2 Sequences 2.3 Populations models	Quiz 1	hw2: Sec2.1: 33; Sec2.2: 9, 51, 67, 73,79, 84, 114; Sec2.3: 23, 58(abfi);	2/5
Week 3 2/5,7,9	Chapter 3: Limits and Continuity 3.1 Limits 3.2 Continuity	Quiz 2	hw3: Sec3.1: 2,19,31,42,56 Sec.3.2: 7, 11, 28a, 36, 47	2/12	Project 1 post
Week 4 2/12, 14, 16	Chapter 3: Limits and Continuity 3.3 Limits at Infinity 3.4 Trigonometric Limits and The Sandwich Theorem 3.5 Properties of Continuous Functions	Quiz 3	hw4: Sec3.3: 6,21,29; Sec3.4: 6,12,15,19c; Sec3.5: 3,11,20	2/19
Week 5 2/19, 21,23	Chapter 4: Derivatives 4.1 Formal Definition of the Derivative 4.2 Basic Rules of Derivatives 4.3 Power Rule and the Rules of Differentiation	Quiz 4	hw5: 4.1: 10, 27, 33; 4.2: 12, 17, 27 4.3: 13, 29, 46, 60	2/26	Project 1 due 2/21
Week 6 2/26,28, 3/1	4.4 Product and Quotient Rules 4.5 The Chain Rule 4.6 Implicit Functions and Implicit Differentiation	Quiz 5	hw6: 4.4: 8, 65,85; 4.5: 8, 25, 39,45 4.6: 5, 10, 23	3/4	Project 2 post
Week 7 3/4, 6,8	4.7 Higher Derivatives 4.8 Derivative of Trigonometric Functions 4.9 Derivatives of Exponential Functions 4.10 Derivatives of Inverse Functions	Quiz 6	hw7: 4.7: 4,13, 15; 4.8: 33, 54, 69; 4.9: 16, 38,63; 4.10: 10, 21, 62	3/11
Week 8 3/11, 13,15	4.11 Linear Approximation Midterm		Midterm 3/13. In class.
Week 9 3/18- 22	Spring Break;
Week 10 3/25, 27, 29	Chapter 5: Applications of Differentiation 5.1 Extreme and Mean Value Theorems 5.2 Monotonicity and Concavity	Quiz 7	hw8: Sec5.1:31, 33, 38, 43, 53, 55; Sec5.2: 6, 14, 26, 43	4/1	Project 2 due 3/27
Week 11 4/1,3,5	5.3: Extrema and inflection points 5.4 Optimization 5.5 L'Hopital's Rule	Quiz 8	hw9: Sec5.3: 12, 20, 29; Sec5.4: 9bc, 18; Sec5.5: 9, 16, 26, 45, 62	4/8	Project 3 post
Week 12 4/8,10,12	5.10 Antiderivatives Chapter 6: Integration 6.1 The Definite Integral 6.2 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus	Quiz 9	hw10: Sec5.10: 37, 50, 64, 73; Sec.6.1: 19, 37, 50c, 65; Sec6.2: 9,18	4/15
Week 13 4/15, 17, 19	6.2 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus 6.3 Applications of Integration Chapter 7 Applications of the Integral 7.1 The Substitution Rule 7.2 Integration by Parts and Practicing Integration	Quiz 10	hw11: Sec6.2: 72,102,126 Sec.6.3: 9,12,25,43 Sec7.1: 8,37,48	4/22	Project 3 due 4/17
Week 14 4/22,24,26	7.2 Integration by Parts and Practicing Integration 7.3 Rational Functions and Partial Fractions Review Projects, Review for Final;	Quiz 11	No hw. Exercises: Sec7.2: 5, 13, 21, 29, 29, 47, 51 Sec7.3: 31, 35, 41, 86
Week 16 5/6-10	Final Exam, May 10, 9am-12pm. Location: Krieger 205 Coverage: ALL. 60% credits for material after midterm.