Calculus for biology and Medicine (MAT 17C, Sections A01-A02), Winter 2012
Instructor: Professor Qinglan Xia
 Lectures: MWF 0210-0300P in YOUNG 194
Office Hours: MSB 3216, Monday & Wednesday 3:10~4:00pm
Email: qlxia@math.ucdavis.edu

TA: DeVerse, Justin
Email: jsdeverse@ucdavis.edu
Office Hours: Tu and Thurs 9:00am-9:50am  in MSB 1228
Course webpage: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~qlxia/teaching/17c/17c.html.

Text: Calculus for Biology and Medicine (3rd Edition) by Claudia Neuhauser (Pearson, 2011).

Description: We will cover Sections 10.1-10.6, 11.1-11.4, 12.1-12.4, plus some online materials. Department of mathematics has provided a syllabus in http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/courses/syllabi/.

Final Grade: The final grade will be based on the following scheme: Two Midterms 20% each, Quiz 20%, Final 40%.  You may see your grades via Smartsite.

Homework:  Homework will be assigned weekly on the course webpage, but it will not be collected or graded.  You are strongly encouraged to carefully do every assigned problem on your own.  Completing the homework is crucial for most students to do well in the course.  Do not fall behind on your homework because understanding new material requires that you understand previous sections.  Any homework problems may occur on an exam/quiz, perhaps in a slightly changed form.

Homeworks Sections Problems Due dates
Homework 1 10.1 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 19-22, 24, 25 January 18, 2012
10.2 13, 15, 17, 19, 23
10.3 1, 3, 7, 17, 19, 23, 25, 30, 31, 39, 45, 51
Homework 2 10.4 1,5,7, 19, 20, 25, 27,28 January 25, 2012
10.5 3, 7,17,18,25, 27,31,35,37,39
Homework 3 10.6 1,3,4,6,7,15,17,19,28,31,33,39,43 Feburary 1, 2012
Homework 4 11.1 19, 23, 25,3,5,9,11, 15 Feburary 8, 2012
Homework 5 11.1 28, 29, 35, 37, 39, 43, 45, 55 Feburary 15, 2012
11.2 1, 3, 11
Homework 6 11.3 1,5, 7, 9,13,15,19 Feburary 21, 2012
Homework 7 Double integrals Some practice problems for double integrals March 6, 2012
12.1 1, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 23, 25, 29, 35, 37, 39, 45, 46
Homework 8 12.2 3, 5-8, 21,23,25, 27, 31, 33, 34, 39, 41 March 13, 2012
12.3 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13
Homework 9 12.3 15, 19, 21, 23, 29, 33, 35, 37 March 19, 2012
12.4 2, 5, 19, 21, 23, 35, 41, 45

Examinations: There will be two midterm (Wednesday, Feburary 1st, and Friday, Feburary 24 in class) and a comprehensive Final (Wednesday, March 21, 6:00~8:00pm).

Quizzes: For each no-exam week, there will be a short quiz (10-15 minutes) in your discussion section. There will be no make-up quizzes given for any reason. Your two lowest quiz scores will be dropped. You must take the quiz in the discussion section for which you are registered.

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Academic Holidays: Monday, January 16 and Monday, Feburary 20.