Math 161, §4+5, MWF 12:10, Clark C146
Lecturer: Alexander Hulpke, Weber 217
Office Hours: Tentatively: T 11, R10
Email: hulpke@math.colostate.edu
WWW: http://www.math.colostate.edu/∼hulpke/lectures/m161
TA: Yang Zou, zou@math.colostate.edu, Office Hours: M3, W2, R4 scheduled.
Course Coordinator: JW Thomas, thomas@math.colostate.edu
Tutorial Section: This course is split in a lecture and
a lab session/tutorial. You will have to register for both.
These sections are intended to be in a smaller group –
please attend the tutorial section you registered for. The
sections are at different times and in different rooms on
Tuesday.
Section
L04
L05
L10
L11
L12
L13
Nr
Time
@Dept 12
344934
9
350152 10
350153 11
350154 12
350155
2
Room
Engr. E104
Engr. B105
Engr. B105
Engr. B2
Engr. E104
Engr. E203
Tutorials may introduce new material, attendance is required. The tutorials also will
cover the technology labs. On these days the tutorials will take place in WB205
Textbook: Thomas, Weir, Hass, Giordano: Thomas’ Calculus, Eleventh Edition, AddisonWesley, ISBN 03211-8558-7. A rough schedule can be found below. (Please note that the
schedule differs slightly from the other sections as we have small group tutorials on Tuesdays.)
Exams
There will be three midterms: September 14, October 12 and November 9, each day 5:15pm7:00pm and a final on December 11, 1:30-3:30pm. Rooms will be assigned later.
The only excused absences from these exams are official university approved absences. In
you have an unavoidable conflict with an evening exam or final, you must submit written
explanation of the conflict (email preferred) to the course coordinator two weeks in advance.
Include your phone number and email address.
The exams will test material covered in the lecture and homework up this point, including
material introduced in the technology labs. Calculators will be permitted only for part of
the 3rd midterm, not for first two midterms, nor for the final.
Homework
Homework will consist of “routine” problems to be done in WebWorK (see below) as well as a
weekly set of additional problems. All problems carry equal weight. The 10 worst submissions
(including missed assignments) will be ignored. Homework is listed on the sheet below. I
reserve the right to modify homework assignments by announcement in class.
As we are using WebWorK the written homework is of moderate size. A separate sheet
lists some expectations on how a proper written homework should look.
Homework has to be submitted individually. You can (and should) discuss the problems
with fellow students, but you should write up the solution yourself. (Copying will only hurt
you in the end once exam time comes.) No late homework will be accepted (except for force
majeure or permission by me in advance).
Do not leave it until the last moment to work on the homework problems – you will
likely run into time pressure.
This is a college course and you are grown up. You can expect to be treated as adults
but I expect adult behavior from you. In particular I expect to see you regularly in class and
to regularly hand in solutions to the homework problems. If you have to miss a class it is
your responsibility to find out from fellow students what material was covered.
Grades
The grades in class will be based on the three common exams (100 points each), the final
(200 points), homework (50 points), technology labs (40 points) for a total of 590 points. The
grade scale will generally be 531-590, A; 472-530, B; 413-471, C; 354-412, D; below 354, F.
The ranges of the grades may be scaled depending on any curves given for particular exams.
The grades in each of the ranges may include + and -. Note that if you do not do either the
homework or labs, you will lower your grade almost one grade. Do not come in complaining
after the fact.
WebWorK
In this section of M161 we will be trying out a new system, called WebWorK (there is
no relation to the Universities WebCT and you cannot access it through RamWEB) that
provides automatic grading (and immediate response) for “routine” problems. Problems of
this type will count as part of the homework assignment. If your submitted solution is
wrong, you typically have further chances to submit a correct solution. (There is no penalty
for submitting a wrong solution first.)
To do these problems you have to log in to http://64.119.180.69/webwork/m161s4 (or
through a link on the course page). Your username is set to your eID, your initial password
is the phone number the university has for you1 (in the form 970-491-42882 ). Please as a first
step change your password. As the login is not encrypted do not choose the same password
as used for any important login. The first WeBWorK “assignment”, set0, consists of some
exercises about how to interact with the program.
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2
If the university does not have a phone number listed for you, it is replaced by the eID again
If your phone number recently changed the university might still have the previous one
Tutoring
Courtesy of the College of Natural Sciences, free tutoring for M161 is available at Ingersoll
Hall. More information is available at: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/NatSci/html/
Tutorial.html
I wish you success with this course and all the best for the coming semester.
Tentative Homework Assignments
Homework consists of WebWorK homework as well as problems that should be submitted
in written form and are due on the listed day at midnight. (There may be modifications in
the assignments that will be announced in class.) The written homework is typically due in
class on Fridays. (Typically it is for material covered in class up to the previous Tuesday.)
If a section is covered on two days the homework for the whole section is listed on the first
day. Problems marked with a ? are bonus problems for additional credit.
Due dates are set generously to accomodate multiple working patterns. Do not use this
as a reason for procrastination!
Day
Mon, Aug 21
Tue, Aug 22
Wed, Aug 23
Fri, Aug 25
Mon, Aug 288
Tue, Aug 29
Wed, Aug 30
Fri, Sep 1
Mon, Sep 4
Tue, Sep 5
Wed, Sep 6
Fri, Sep 8
Mon, Sep 11
Tue, Sep 12
Wed, Sep 13
Thu, Sep 14
Fri, Sep 15
Mon, Sep 18
Tue, Sep 19
Wed, Sep 20
Fri, Sep 22
Section
7.1
Algebra/Trig exam
7.1/7.2
7.2
7.3
7.3
7.4
9.1
Labor Day
7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8
Lab 1 (WB205!)
Review
Exam
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.3
8.4
WebWorK
sect71
due
Written
Aug 30 7.1: 22
due in class
Sep 1
sect72
Aug 30 7.2: 54,64
Sep 1
sect73
Sep 1
7.3: 44,68
Sep 1
sect74
sect91
Sep 5
Sep 6
7.4: 40,90?
—
Sep 8
set75
sect76
sect77
sect78
Sep
Sep
Sep
Sep
7.5: 10
7.6:26?
7.7:14,42
7.8:6,8,77?
Lab 1
Sep
Sep
Sep
Sep
Sep
no calculator
sect81
sect82
Sep 19
Sep 22
8.1:96
8.2:8
Sep 22
Sep 22
sect83
sect84
Sep 27
Sep 29
8.3:22
8.4:34
Sep 29
Sep 29
8
11
12
15
15
15
15
15
22
Day
Mon, Sep 25
Tue, Sep 26
Wed, Sep 27
Fri, Sep 29
Mon, Oct 2
Tue, Oct 2
Wed, Oct 4
Fri, Oct 6
Mon, Oct 9
Tue, Oct 10
Wed, Oct 11
Thu, Oct 12
Fri, Oct 13
Mon, Oct 16
Tue, Oct 17
Wed, Oct 18
Fri, Oct 20
Mon, Oct 23
Tue, Oct 24
Wed, Oct 25
Fri, Oct 27
Mon, Oct 30
Tue, Oct 31
Wed, Nov 1
Fri, Nov 3
Mon, Nov 6
Tue, Nov 7
Wed, Nov 8
Thu, Nov 9
Fri, Nov 10
Mon, Nov 13
Tue, Nov 14
Wed, Nov 15
Fri, Nov 17
Fall Break
Mon, Nov 27
Tue, Nov 28
Wed, Nov 29
Fri, Dec 1
Review
Mon, Dec 11
Section
8.5
8.1-8.5
8.5
8.8
11.1
11.1
11.1
Taylorpol.
Error Term
Lab2
Review
Exam
11.2
11.3 (W-day!)
Series
11.4
11.5
11.6
11.6
11.7
Taylor Ser.
Taylor Ser.
11.10
11.10
3.5/6.3
10.5
10.6
Review
Exam
10.7
10.7
Lab 3
8.7
8.7
WebWorK
sect85
due
Sep 29
Written
8.5:22
—
due in class
Sep 29
—
sect88
sect111
—
—
—
—
Oct 4
Oct 6
8.8:42
11.1:14,16,20,
23,25,31 w.proof
Oct 6
Oct 6
Oct 6
Oct 9
Oct 13
Sheet
Sheet
Lab 2
Oct 13
Oct 13
Oct 20
Oct 17
Oct 20
11.2:2,6
11.3:16,18
Oct 20
Oct 20
Oct 23
Oct 25
Oct 27
11.4:2,14,16
11.5:2,4,8,16,18
11.6:46
Oct 27
Oct 27
Oct 27
Oct 30
Nov 1
Oct 20
—
—
Nov 8
Nov 10
Nov 10
11.7:34,39,41
Sheet
Sheet
11.10:4,6,12
18,22,34
3.5:68,72; 6.3:2
10.5:26,30,56,58
10.6: 4,6,8,34,36
Nov
Nov
Nov
Nov
Nov
Nov
Nov
Nov
no calculator
sect112
sect113
sect114
sect116
sect117
—
—
sect35
sect105
sect106
partially calculator
sect107
Nov 17 10.7:10
3
3
3
10
10
10
10
10
Nov 17
sect87
Lab 3
Nov 27 8.7:8
Nov 27
Dec 1
A.5
Lab 4
A.5
A.5
secta5
Dec 4
Dec 1
Dec 1
Final
1.30pm (no calculator)
A.5:6,24
Lab 4