21C Section A - Syllabus, Spring 2008

21C Section A - Syllabus, Spring 2008

Calculus Math 21C
Section A. MWF 9:00-9:50 AM, 2205 Haring Hall.

Instructor: Prof. Joel Hass
Office: 2222 MSB
Office hours: MW 1:40-3:00 PM.

Announcements:
The Final Exam will be held Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 3:30-5:30 PM in SCILEC 123, the Sciences Lecture Hall.
Map to SCILEC
Sciences Lecture Hall Web Page

Optional Review Session:
Monday, June 9, 2008
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Hunt 100

Sample Finals and old Finals from 21C can be found at the links below to past 21C classes.

The midterm solutions can be found at
Midterm - version 1
Midterm - version 2

See 21C HW for information about homework.

TA Office hours:
Shinpei Baba: Monday 3-6 PM, MSB 2137 shinpei(at)math.ucdavis.edu
David Cherney: Th. 12-1:30, MSB 2147 cherney(at)math.ucdavis.edu
Moritz Reintjes: MSB 2137 moritz(at)math.ucdavis.edu
Mike Williams: MSB 2141, mikew(at)math.ucdavis.edu

Textbook:

Required:

  • Thomas' Calculus Early Transcendentals by Weir, Hass, Giordano. 11th ed. Addison-Wesley. You do not need to buy any supplements (answer workbooks etc.) We will cover most of chapters 11-14 in this text.

    Exams and grading:
    No books, calculators, etc. are allowed in exams

    Your grade will be based on the Final Exam (40%), Midterm (25%) quizzes (25%) and homework (10%). The lowest hw and quiz scores will be dropped.

    There are practice exams available from past times this course has been taught. These can be found at
    past 21C Class 1
    past 21C Class 2
    past 21C Class 3

    The first site above has a practice midterm with solutions and also the actual midterm with solutions. It also has practice and actual finals with solutions.

    For those who really like these, here are some more.
    past 21C Class 4

    Our midterm and finals will have the same type of problems as found in these sites.

    Course Contents:

    The week by week syllabus can be found at Math 21C - Syllabus (PDF) .

    Exams and Homework

    Homework: We will be doing homework using the online system myMathLab.

    21C HW describes how to set up your account. You will need to have a student access code, which comes with the book when you buy it at the bookstore. If you bought a used book, you can purchase the access code separately.

    Exams: The Final Exam will be held on Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 3:30-5:30 PM
    The Midterm will be on Monday, May 12 in class.

    Resources: