Math 110.106 Calculus I (Bio & Soc Sci)

Spring 2014 Course Syllabus

http://www.mathematics.jhu.edu/brown/courses/s14/106.html

 

Dr. Richard Brown

MWF 10:00pm - 10:50pm: Hackerman B17

brown@math.jhu.edu

 

403 Krieger Hall

 

410-516-8179

 

Office Hours:

 

M

1:00-2:00 pm

by appt. other times

W

1:00-2:00 pm

 

Text Calculus for Biology and Medicine, 3rd Edition, Claudia Neuhauser, New Jersey: Pearson, January, 2010 0321644689 978-0321644688

 

Current Recitation Sections:

Section

Time

Place

Instructor

1

Tuesday 4:30pm

Hodson 211

Cattell

2

Tuesday 3:00pm

Krieger 300

Beardsley

3

Tuesday 4:30pm

Krieger 302

Hartman

Course Material: The core of the course will center on the text material, and will basically cover the material detailed in the syllabus link below.  I may add and/or slightly alter this material depending on how the semester plays out.  But the core set of material that I will cover will be what is on the syllabus:

Official Syllabus for 110.106 Calculus I

In addition to this, you should be aware that the prerequisite for this is a full treatment of what we call pre-calculus.  What we consider prerequisite content is everything on the syllabus for 110.105.  The link is here:

Official Syllabus for 110.105 Introduction to Calculus

Grade Policy:  There will be weekly homework sets and possibly some projects (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 will not be present when homework is submitted, please submit the assignment early.  If you miss a homework or project deadline, you can talk to the TA for late acceptance, but I have instructed them to not accept late submissions.  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 lecture at the end of the following week.  See below for the due dates.  Homework is an absolutely essential educational part of the course. You will be graded mostly on your ability to work problems on exams. You cannot work problems on exams if you have not practiced the techniques and become comfortable applying the concepts 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. Trust me on this last point.  Talk to your section Teaching Assistant about how to turn in a homework if you cannot go to class. Some additional points:

  • You are strongly encouraged to collaborate in the analysis and study stage of homework preparation.  However, you are required to submit completely original work, however, and must write up your homework for final submission alone.

  • You will be graded on your PROCESS in homework construction rather than simply your ability to calculate.  You must present your homework solutions as if they are complete educational tools for study.  In essence, you must PRESENT your solution and not simply answer questions. 

  • Here is a brief idea of how one should construct homework problems for submission:

How to construct homework problem solutions

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-3pm 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 grader.

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.

Spring 2014 Tentative Schedule

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

 

Week

Sections

Homework

Due in Lecture

January 27 -- 31

 

Jan31

Course Orientation

 

February 7

How to present...

How to present....

Selected Solutions

1.1 Preliminaries

1.2 Elementary Functions

1.3 Graphing

4,28,32,46,52,62,74,78,92,106

16,18,26,29,44,58

2,8,12,16,22,30,32

February 3 -- 7

Feb03, Feb05, Feb07

2.1 Exponential Growth and Decay

2.2 Sequences

6,8,12,16,22,38,42,50,56

10,12,20,22,30,34,48,52,54,58,62,74,80,82,

96,98,103,107

February 17

Selected Solutions

February 10 -- 12

Feb10, Feb12

3.1 Limits (with formal def:  3.6)

3.2 Continuity

5,14,18,22,30,34,42,43,50,52

8,10,14,22,26,28,31,41,46

February 21

Selected Solutions

February 14 Snow day - No class

February 17 -- 21

Feb17, Feb19, Feb21

3.3 Limits at Infinity

3.4 The Sandwich Theorem

3.5 Properties of Continuous Functions

2,6,10,16,22,25,27

1,6,12,13,18,20

2,3,6,8,11,14

February 28

Selected Solutions

February 24 -- 28

Feb24, Feb26, Feb28

4.1 Formal Definition of the Derivative

4.2 Basic Rules

22,24,25,26,30,34,36,38,40,42,59,62,64,68

 

March 10

Selected Solutions

March 3 Snow day - No class

March 5

Mar05

4.2 Basic Rules

4.3 Product and Quotient Rules

8,16,22,26,30,36,40,56,66,70,74,80,82

6,18,28,36,38,50,58,78,83,86

March 14

Selected Solutions

March 7

Exam 1 (Sections covered thru 4.1)

 

March 10 -- 14

Mar10, Mar12, Mar14

4.4 Chain Rule

4.5 Derivatives of Trig Functions

4.6 Derivatives of Exponential Functions

16,32,34,38,44,50,56,62,68,70,71,80,84,86

14,18,28,50,58,60,61,72,73

March 28

Selected Solutions

March 17 -- 21

Spring Break - No classes

March 24 -- 28

Mar24, Mar26, Mar28

4.6 Derivatives of Exp Functions

4.7 Inverse Functions and Logarithms

4.8 Linear Approximation

6,14,28,38,54,60,64,70

10,16,22,36,38,58,76

2,8,12,18,30,32

April 4

Selected Solutions

March 31-- April 4

Mar31, Apr02, Apr04

5.1 Extrema and the Mean-Value Thm

5.2 Monotonicity and Concavity

10,12,28,32,34,36,40,44,46,49

6,8,23,28,30,32

April 11

Selected Solutions

April 7 -- 11

Apr07, Apr09, Apr11

 

5.3 Inflection Points and Graphing

5.4 Optimization

5.5 L'Hospital's Rule

1,4,11,21,25,26,36

4,9,10,12,18,20,22

6,8,14,16,20,32,36,38,44,49,58

April 18

Selected Solutions

April 14 -- 18

Apr14, Apr16, Apr18

 

5.8 Antiderivatives

6.1 The Definite Integral

6.2 The Fundamental Thm of Calculus

8,12,39,46,62,64,71

32,38,39,42,62,68,73

6,10,42,46,54,69,80,90,102

April 28

April 21        Notes

6.3 Application of Integration

1,8,13,19,27

Not to be handed in

April 23

Exam 2 (Sections covered:  4.2 - 5.5)

 

April 25       

Cancelled due to illness  
April 28 -- May 2 

Apr28, Apr30, May02

 

7.1 The Substitution Rule

7.2 Integration by Parts

Course Review

2,6,10,14,16,17,26,33,51,54,59

4,12,23,32,35,40,50

 

 

 

May 7

Final Exam

9:00am - 12:00pm:  Hackerman B17