Math 110.106, Calculus I (Biological and Social Sciences)

Fall 2009 Course Syllabus

http://www.mathematics.jhu.edu/brown/Fall09106.htm

 

 

Dr. Richard Brown

MWF 10:00am - 10:50am Bloomberg 272

brown@math.jhu.edu

MWF 11:00am – 11:50am Mudd 26

403 Krieger Hall

 

410-516-8179

 

Office Hours:

 

M

1:00-2:00 pm

by appt. other times

W

1:00-2:00 pm

 

Below is some basic information relevant to this course.  A more detailed schedule of course material, homework assignments, and testing dates will follow shortly.

 

Text:  C. Neuhauser, Calculus for Biology and Medicine,2nd edition.

 

Current Recitation Sections:

Section

Time

Place

Instructor

1

Tuesday 4:30pm

Dunning 205

Sinclair

2

Thursday 3:00pm

Krieger 300

Spindler

3

Thursday 4:30pm

Krieger 308

Novotny

4

Tuesday 1:30pm

Bloomberg 176

Sinclair

5

Thursday 1:30pm

Krieger 304

Spindler

6

Thursday 1:30pm

Bloomberg 168

Novotny

7

Tuesday 3:00pm

Dunning 205

Sinclair

8

Tuesday 1:30pm

Hodson 110

Novotny

9

Thursday 3:00pm

Krieger 308

Mercure

 

 

Course Material: The core of the course will center on the text material, and will basically cover the material detailed in the schedule below.

 

Grade Policy:    There will be weekly homework sets (20%), 2 in-lecture exams (40%) and a final (40%).  The schedule of these exams is given with the homework problems below. There will be no make-ups on homework or exams.  If you miss an exam, you will have to be cleared by me to be excused from the exam, a process that will include documentation and a valid excuse.  In this case the ultimate grade for that exam will be calculated based on your performance on future exams and the final. 

 

Homework:    Homework based on the week’s lectures will be posted as official on the course web site sometime on Friday (Homework may be posted earlier, but may change as the lectures evolve for the week). That assignment will be due in section after the following week.  See below for the due dates.  You are encouraged to do your homework in groups. You are required, however, to write up your homework on your own. Homework is an essential educational part of the course. You will be graded mostly on your ability to work problems on quizzes and exams. You cannot work problems on quizzes and exams if you have not practiced the techniques within the homework problems. If you misuse homework by not doing it yourself, or not checking that you can solve a problem on your own after having been shown how to do it, then your exam scores and corresponding grade will reflect this. Talk to your section Teaching Assistant about how to turn in a homework if you cannot go to class.

 

Course Policy: You are responsible for lecture notes, any course material handed out, and attendance in class.  While I will not formally record your attendance, I will get to know you and your rate of presence over time.  The lectures will be conducted as if you have already read the material and attempted some homework problems.  In this manner, you can focus mainly on those parts of the lectures that cover the areas of your reading you found difficult to understand. My teaching style is that of interactive discussion and I will rely on your input in developing the material.  Active participation in the classroom is a great way to generate the discussion necessary to fully grasp the material.

 

Help Room:      213 Kreiger Hall.  The hours are 9am – 9pm on Monday through Thursday, and 9am – 5pm on Friday.  This free service is a very valuable way to get one-on-one help on the current material of a class from other students outside the course.  It is staffed by graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

 

Ethics Statement:  The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity. In this course, you must be honest and truthful.  Cheating is wrong. Cheating hurts our community by undermining academic integrity, creating mistrust, and fostering unfair competition. The university will punish cheaters with failure on an assignment, failure in a course, permanent transcript notation, suspension, and/or expulsion. Offenses may be reported to medical, law, or other professional or graduate schools when a cheater applies.

Violations can include cheating on exams, plagiarism, reuse of assignments without permission, improper use of the Internet and electronic devices unauthorized collaboration, alteration of graded assignments, forgery and falsification, lying, facilitating academic dishonesty, and unfair competition. Ignorance of these rules is not an excuse.

In this course, as in many math courses, working in groups to study particular problems and discuss theory is strongly encouraged.  Your ability to talk mathematics is of particular importance to your general understanding of mathematics.

You should collaborate with other students in this course on the general construction of homework assignment problems.  However, you must write up the solutions to these homework problems individually and separately.  If there is any question as to what this statement means, please see the professor or the recitation instructor.

For more information, see the guide on "Academic Ethics for Undergraduates" and the Ethics Board web site (http://ethics.jhu.edu).

Students with Disabilities:  Students with documented disabilities or other special needs that require accommodation must register with the Office of Academic Advising. After that, remind me of your needs at least 5 days prior to each exam; we will need to have received confirmation from Academic Advising.

Math 110.106, Calculus I (Biological and Social Sciences)

Fall 2009 (VERY) Tentative Schedule

 

The details of this material will be updated and reformed as the semester progresses.

 

How to construct homework problem solutions

 

Week

Sections

Homework

Due in Section the week of

September 2 – 4

Course Orientation

1.1

1.2*1

 

1.3

 

 

2,4,6,16,26,38,52,58,60,64,68,70,74

88,90*2,98,104

2,8,12,16

September 14

Solutions

September 9 – 11

2.1

2.2

 

16,22,36,42,52,56,60,64,68,75,76

6,16,22,26,32,35,41,46,52,56,76,78,94

100,104,108

September 21

Solutions

September 14 – 18

2.2

3.1

 

4,12,18,20,32,34,36,38,42,50,52

September 28

Solutions

September 21 – 25

3.2

3.3

3.4

6,8,16,22,23,28,32,36,42,46

2,6,12,16,25

2,6,10,14,16

October 5

Solutions

September 28 – October 2

3.5

4.1

4.2

2,6,14

14,16,22*3,32,36,38,EP1,EP2,EP3

2,12,30,32,38,40,44,58,68,76

October 12

Solutions

October 5 – 9

 

4.3

4.4

4.5

6,18,36,44,52,78,90

4,14,34,52,58,64,70,80,85,86

6,18,26,34,40,60,62

October 19

Sol. 4.4.70

Solutions

October 12

Exam 1

Sections 1.1 – 4.4 only

Solutions

October 14 – 16

Notes

4.6

4.7

14, 28,40,48,54,60,64

2,8,18,22,29,32,36,43,48,58,62,64,66,76

October 26

Solutions

October 19 – 23

Notes

4.8

5.1

5.2

6,14,18,26

10,12,24,30,34,36,44,46,48,54

November 2

Solutions

Sol. 5.1.46

October 26 – 30

Notes

5.2

5.3

5.8.12.14.26.28.30

6.10.14.24.26.28.36.44

November 9

Solutions

November 2 – 6

Notes

5.4

5.5

5.8

2,6,10,18

5,14,15,30,34,48,52

8,12,14,22,32,42,62,65,67

November 16

Solutions

November 9 – 13

Notes

6.1

6.2

2,10,18,32,38,56,62,68,74,82,84

6,14,16,24,32,34,38

Due ON November 24

Sol 6.2.32

Solutions

November 16 – 20        

Notes

6.2

6.3

7.1

42,46,60,,70,90,94,106,118,124

4,14,17,20,22,26,30,32

November 30

Solutions

November 23

Notes

7.1

7.2

8,12,24,28,42,44,48,56,58,59

Due ON December 7

November 30 – December 2

Notes

7.2

7.3

6,12,20,24

24,42,45

December 4

Exam 2

Sections 4.5 – 7.1 of the sections I covered here.

Solutions

December 7

Course Review

 

 

 

 

 

December 11

Final Exam

9am – 12pm  Room:  HODSON 110

*1. In Section 1.2, some problems ask that you graph a function.  If you have access to a graphing calculator, go ahead and use it here.  If not, there are online graphers that work quite well.  Any one will do.  One that I found with a single search is at http://www.walterzorn.com/grapher/grapher_e.htm.

*2. Keep in mind here, that the p’s in this problem are proportional amounts of a whole, like percentages.  This will help you to understand what they are asking in this problem.

*3.  At this point in Section 4.1, you do not yet know the Power and Sum Rules.  So here, use the definition of the derivative.

 

EP1:      Let .  Draw its graph and show, using the definition of the derivative, that does not exist.

EP2:      Let .  Draw its graph and show, using the definition of the derivative, that  does not exist.

EP3:      Let .  Draw its graph and show, using the definition of the derivative, that  does exist.