MAT 21C - Calculus

MAT 21C Section B - CALCULUS

Spring Quarter 2010, CRN = 69658, 69659, 69660, 69661, 83290

Time: MWF 2:10PM - 3:00PM

Lectures take place in 2205 Haring Hall

Instructor: Professor Alexander Soshnikov

Office: MSB 3140

Phone: 554-9486 (message only)

Mathematics Department, Office of Student Services: 752-3828

Weekly Homework Assignment: Please visit this page weekly for homework assignments. We use WeBWorks for managing your homework. Please read the instruction below.

I have only one tip for studying Calculus: you cannot do it half-heartedly. You have to devote to this class at least eight hours per week of concentrated attention at home to understand the subject enough so that standard problems become routine. If you think that coming to class and reading the examples while also doing something else is enough, you are in for an unpleasant surprise on the exams.

Weekly Reading Assignment: This page contains announcements, reading assignments, and additional (more theoretical) exercise problems. Please visit this page weekly, and refresh it every time you visit. You are supposed to solve these extra problems, since the exams (midterms and the final) may be based also on them.

FINAL EXAM (Exam Code P):

Wednesday, June 9, 08:00AM - 10:00AM in SCIENCE LECTURE HALL 123
Students who need a longer period of time to complete his/her exam as determined by the SDC will take the exam in Wellman 212 .
In addition, students who take two 21-series finals will also take the exams in Wellman 212 . The first exam will begin at 8:00am. There will be a 15 minute break at the end of the first exam at 10:00a.m.
The Final Exam is cumulative and covers all the materials taught in the course. However, about 50% of the problems will be devoted to the material covered during the last three weeks of the class.
Bring your student ID

First Midterm: Wednesday, April 21, in class.

The first midterm examination covers Sections 11.1-11.7.
Bring your student ID
The exam problems are based on the homework assignments, contents of the classroom lectures, and the problems listed in the reading assignments.
Midterm 1 Solutions : Please note that the drop day for this course is Friday, April 23.
The numeric grades are posted at MyUCDavis web site. The letter grades are given by the following curve. A+ >44 points, A [37, 44], A- [35,36], B+ [33,34], B [29, 32], B- [27,28], C+ [25,26], C [20,24], C- 19, D+ 18, D [15, 17], D- 14, F [0,13].

Second Midterm: Wednesday, May 12, in class.

The second midterm examination covers Sections 11.7-11.10, 12.1-12.5, and 14.1.
Bring your student ID
The exam problems are based on the homework assignments, contents of the classroom lectures, and the problems listed in the reading assignments.
Midterm 2 Solutions.
The numeric grades are posted at MyUCDavis web site. The letter grades are given by the following curve. A+ >49 points, A [40, 49], A- [37,39], B+ [34,36], B [29, 33], B- [27,28], C+ [25,26], C [20,24], C- 19, D+ 18, D [15, 17], D- 14, F [0,13].

Text: Thomas' Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 11th edition, by Maurice D. Weir, Joel Hass, and Frank R. Giordano, Pearson/Addison Wesley 2007.

We WILL NOT use the Media Upgrade provided by the publisher of the book in our class.

Syllabus: We will cover Chapter 11, Sections 1 - 10; Chapter 12, Sections 1 - 5; Chapter 14, Sections 1 - 8. Please note that we will not cover Chapter 13 in our class.

Online Resources for Calculus:

Calculus Textbook by Gilbert Strang. The entire content of this book is available free of charge in the pdf format. The chapters we cover in MAT21C roughly corresponds to Chapters 10 - 13 of Strang. It is quite handy to carry the whole calculus textbook in your smartphone or iPod.
Calculus on the Web by Gerardo Mendoza and Dan Reich. Their "Calculus Book III" has some contents related to the topics of our course.

Lectures, sections, office hours, and T.A. information:

Section	B01 (CRN 69658)	B02 (CRN 69659)	B03 (CRN 69660)	B04 (CRN 69661)	B05 (CRN 83290)
Lectures	MWF 02:10-03:00pm in 2205 Haring Hall (all sections)
Office Hours (Prof. Soshnikov)	M 3:30PM-5:00PM, R 3:30PM-5:00PM in MSB 3140
Lead TA	Thomas Hunt office hours (regarding WebWorks): M 3:30PM-4:30PM in MSB 3125 hunttw@math^*
Discussion	T 04:10-05:00pm Hoagland 168	T 07:10-08:00pm Olson 205	T 05:10-06:00pm Hoagland 168	T 06:10-07:00pm Olson 205	T 08:10-09:00pm Wellman 1
T.A.	Douglas Unger dunger@math^*	Kathleen O'Reilly kporeilly@math^*	Richard Watson watson@math^*	Richard Watson watson@math^*	James Polsinelli polsi020@math^*
Office Hours (TA)	W 10:00AM-11:00AM MSB 2204	W 10:30AM-11:30AM MSB 3129	W 3:00PM-5:00PM MSB 2202	W 3:00PM-5:00PM MSB 2202	W 10:00AM-11:00AM MSB 2103

* T.A. email addresses are @math.ucdavis.edu

Communication with the instructor: Due to the large volume of e-mails he receives, the instructor most likely will not be able to reply to your e-mails. Therefore, please use the time before and after the class meeting for a short communication. You are most welcome to visit his office during the office hours. If you have an emergency or if you have suggestions regarding the times for the office hours/midterm exams please email the instructor at soshniko@math.ucdavis.edu. Technical questions regarding to the WeBWork should be addressed to the Lead TA.

Examinations: There will be two midterm examinations and a final exam. Midterm exams will take place in 2205 Haring Hall. The location of the Final Exam will be announced later.

First Midterm: TBA
Second Midterm: TBA
Final Examination (Exam Code P): Wednesday, June 09, 08:00AM - 10:00M in Science Lecture Hall 123.

Special Notice: No calculators are allowed in any of the exams.

No electronic communication devices such as cell phones and portable computers are allowed in these examinations. Exam problems are based on the homework assignments, reading assignments with sample exercise problems, and problems and examples worked out in class.

No make up examination will be given. If you missed a midterm exam due to circumstances beyond your control, please contact the instructor as soon as possible for a conference. If you have an official excuse on the day of a midterm exam, then please let the instructor know at least a week in advance for arrangement of your grade.

Graded midterm papers are returned in your discussion section. Please attend your designated discussion section to receive your graded exams.

The final examination is comprehensive and covers the whole material of the course. No one can be excused from the final examination on the published date. In case you missed it, you should notify the Department (752-3828) immediately. Upon receiving approval from the Department, the course grade I (incomplete) may be assigned to eligible students. Please consult the catalog for guidelines of the incomplete grade.

You are expected to strictly adhere to the UC Standards of Conduct for Students.

Cheating will be taken extremely seriously. The minimum punishment will be an F on the exam or assignment in question, and all cases will be referred to Student Judicial Affairs.

Homework:

Homework assignments are given on Thursdays. Each week you need to solve 15 problems on the WeBWork. The homework is due at 08:00 PM on the following Thursday.

We use the WeBWork for your homework grading. To get started with WeBWorK, go to the WeBWork Wiki page made by Mr. Barrette, and follow the instruction there. If you are already familiar with the system, then go directly to the Homework page (available by Thursday, April 1, 2010). You can view homework assignments by going to "Homework Sets" on the left.

You are responsible for checking the assignments on the WeBWorK page every week. The first assignment is due Thursday, April 8.
You have limited attempts on problems, and typos will be counted as failed attempts, so be sure to use the "Preview" button before each time you submit an answer. You can "Email instructor" if you run into problems with the interface. Your e-mail actually goes to the Lead TA, Thomas Hunt, who maintains the WeBWork for this class.

Course Grade:

Grading will be on a soft curve, meaning that I do not predetermine either what scores correspond to what grades, or what percentage of students get what grades. Rather, after grading each exam I will assign grade ranges using the following general criterion: those who earn an A should demonstrate a strong mastery of nearly all the material; a B should correspond to a good working knowledge of a strong majority of the material; and C should correspond to an ability to solve routine problems in a majority of the topics covered. Under this system, if you all do well, you will all get good grades. A reasonably good approximation to the final grade distribution in this class will be the grade distribution averages for the final grades in all MAT21C classes taught at UC Davis during the last ten years.

Each component of your graded work will be counted into your course grade with the following weight factors:

First Midterm	Second Midterm	Homework	Final
20%	20%	20%	40%

Lectures:

Lecture 1 (March 29): Introduction. Sequences (section 11.1)
Lecture 2 (March 31): Sequences (section 11.1).
Lecture 3 (April 2): Series (section 11.2).
Lecture 4 (April 5): Integral Test (section 11.3).
Lecture 5 (April 7): Comparison Test ( section 11.4).
Lecture 6 (April 9): Limit Comparison Test and Ratio Test (sections 11.4-11.5).
Lecture 7 (April 12): Root Test (section 11.5).
Lecture 8 (April 14): Alternating Series (section 11.6).
Lecture 9 (April 16): Alternating Series (section 11.6).
Lecture 10 (April 19): Power Series (section 11.7).
Midterm 1 (Wednesday, April 21).
Lecture 11 (April 23): Taylor Series (section 11.8).
Lecture 12 (April 26): Convergence of Taylor Series (sections 11.9).
Lecture 13 (April 28): Applications of Power Series (section 11.10).
Lecture 14 (April 30): 3D Coordinates and Vectors (sections 12.1 and 12.2).
Lecture 15 (May 3): Dot products (section 12.3).
Lecture 16 (May 5) Cross products (section 12.4).
Lecture 17 (May 7) Lines and Planes in space (section 12.5).
Lecture 18 (May 10) Functions and Several Variables (section 14.1).
Midterm 2 (Wednesday, May 12) .
Lecture 19 (May 14) Limits and Continuity (section 14.2)
Lecture 20 (May 17) Partial derivatives (section 14.3).
Lecture 21 (May 19) Partial derivatives (section 14.3). Chain Rule (section 14.4).
Lecture 22 (May 21) Chain Rule (section 14.4).
Lecture 23 (May 24) Directional Derivatives and Gradients (section 14.5).
Lecture 24 (May 26) Tangent planes and differentials (section 14.6).
Lecture 25 (May 28) Second derivative test. Saddle points (section 14.7).
Lecture 26 (June 2) Lagrange Multipliers (section 14.8).

Students with disabilities

Any student with a documented disability (e.g. physical, learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations must contact the Student Disability Center (SDC). Faculty are authorized to provide only the accommodations requested by the SDC. If you have any questions, please contact the SDC at (530)752-3184 or sdc@ucdavis.edu.

Tutoring and other resources

You are strongly encouraged to take full advantage of faculty and T.A. office hours. In addition to these, there are various other resources available.

LSC: The LSC (Learning Skills Center) has math drop-in hours at which you can receive tutoring for Math 21C.

Each other: You are very much encouraged to study together. This is an easy way to make your study habits more effective.

Important Dates:

Last day to drop: Friday, April 23.
Academic Holidays: Monday, May 31
Last day of instruction: Thursday, June 3.