Short Calculus

MATH 016B, section 2, CRN 60276, Fall 2007

http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~santos/MATH016B

Before you read on: check the homework page!

final exam

Remember the final exam is in Tuesday december 11, at 8 am, in 1003 Giedt (our usual classroom).

Here is a Practice test for the final. Here are the solutions to the practice.
The final covers chapters 4, 5, 6, and 9 plus section 8.5, with the exception of section 5.6.

mid term 2
Here are the solutions to the mid-term: green and pink. Corrected, Nov 19 2007.

Here is a Practice test for mid-term 2. Here are the solutions to the practice.
Mid-term 2 covers Chapter 5 (except Section 5.6), plus Section 6.1, Section 6.2, Section 8.5 and pages 406-409 of Section 6.3 (partial fractions). But beware: you are not supposed to forget what you learnt for mid-term 1, or for 16A for that matter.

mid term 1

Here are the solutions to the mid-term: yellow and blue.
Observe that in the blue one, one of the four integrals in question six has been cancelled. There was a typo in the statement, which makes the integral not solvable with the methods we have studied. So, the twelve points of question 6 in the blue exam are redistributed among the other three integrals (that is, each is worth four points). In the yellow exam, each integral in question 6 is worth three points.
Here is a Practice mid-term from a previous quarter. Here are the solutions to the practice.
But beware:

Some problems in this practice need calculators (problems 5 and 7). In the real mid-term no calculators will be allowed. What this means is that the problems will be designed NOT to need a calculator, or the calculations needed will be given to you.
Exercises 6.b, 6.c and 6.f correspond to Section 8.5 of the book, which will not be part of our first mid-term. Please skip them.

Meetings: MWF 17:10-18:00, Room 1003 GIEDT

Instructor: Francisco Santos.
email: s a n t o s @ m a t h . u c d a v i s . e d u
Office hours: MWF 10:00-12:00 or by appointment. My office is 3136 in the Math Sciences Building.

Teaching assistants: The TAs for this class are Jen Oyoung (MSB 2232) and James Polsinelli (MSB 2103). But their main job is going to be grading mid-terms and finals. Some sources of help with homework and questions are:

Me.
The Math Department's Calculus Room. Placed in the third floor of the Math Sciences Building, it is open Monday to Friday from 11 to 6. There you will find TAs to help you, and other students.
The UC Davis Learning Skills Center, in Dutton Hall. They have a general "math drop-in" room open from 9 to 5 (2237 Dutton Hall) plus specific workshops for MAT 16B scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 to 10:50 (Dutton 2258, instructor James Parmenter). See also their full list of workshops, not only math.
Your classmates.
Check also the Math Department's Help with Calculus page.

Text: This course covers Chapters 4, 5 and 6 (with parts of 8 and 9) of

``Calculus - An applied approach'', by R. Larson and B. H. Edwards, 
Seventh edition (2006), Houghton Mifflin Company.

You must have the book since, for example, homework assignments refer to it.

Description: This is the second part of a three-term Calculus course. In the first part you have studied limits and derivatives. Here we study:

Integration and its applications.
Calculus for trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions.

I will try to stick closely to the timelined syllabus published by the Math Department.

Grading policy: The course will be graded over 200 points, distributed as follows:

40 points (20% of the grade) for homework.
50 points (25% of the grade) for each of the two mid-terms.
60 points (30% of the grade) for the Final exam.

Exam dates:

First mid-term on October 19, during the class hour.
Second mid-term on November 16, during the class hour.
Final exam on December 11, at 8:00 am.

Homework will be:

assigned via the web page http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~santos/MATH016B/hw (I will try to also announce it in class, and via the class e-mailing list, but it is your responsibility to check the web page often).
collected during the class hour on the due date.
returned to you via the homework boxes in Wellman Hall. I will announce in class and on the e-mailing list when a homework has been put in the boxes for you to retrieve. Homework that stays there when the next homework is returned will be destroyed.

Each homework will consist on the solution of several exercises from the book. Three of the exercises will be graded for correctness and completeness with one point each. Two additional points will be given for submitting your homework with answers to all the exercises. So, each homework assignment is worth 5 points.
There is going to be a homework assigned every week, or almost, for a total of 9 homeworks. The lowest homework grade of each student will be dropped, giving the total of 5 x 8 = 40 maximum homework points.

Final grades:
I will assign grades based on an statistical information of the points obtained by all students (I compute the mean, standard deviation, etc. and set letter grades according with those numbers). I expect that at least 120 points will be necessary to pass this course.
IMPORTANT I will handle all grades via the my.ucdavis.edu grade system. This means that if you are registered students at UC Davis you can access grade information for this class via the internet (check https://my.ucdavis.edu/ for details). This is in a secure and private web page assigned for each student. You can see your standing in the class, important statistics on exams, and your final grade there! I will not disclose your grade in any other form. Prerequisites and Expectations: MAT 16A or equivalent is a pre-requisite.
You are expected to work intensively outside the classroom solving exercises, reading the book, thinking about the problems, etc. I estimate a minimum of 3 hours work at home per lecture. The most important thing is what YOU learn. Mathematics is fun and pretty, try to get the material in your soul! But it is also easy to fall behind, be careful!