Math 117 – Course Outline – Fall 2015 Calculus I for Engineering Lectures: Tutorials: 001 Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays, 3:30-4:20, MC 4059 Also Thursdays October 1st/15th/29th, 11:30-12:20, MC 4059 002 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 11:30-12:30, RCH 301 Also Fridays October 2nd/16th/30th, 2:30-3:20, RCH 301 003 Mondays 2:30-3:20, Tuesdays 11:30-12:20, Wednesdays 1:30-2:20, RCH 301 Also Wednesdays Sept.30th/Oct.14th/28th, 3:30-4:20, RCH 301 004 Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 9:30-10:20, QNC 1502 Also Fridays Sept.25th/Oct.9th/30th, 12:30-1:20, QNC 1502 005 Tuesdays 4:30-5:20, Wednesdays and Thursdays 2:30-3:20, EIT 1015 Also Thursdays Oct.1st/15th/29th, 3:30-4:20, EIT 1015 There are 15 Tutorial sections in total. See your class schedule. Text: D.Harmsworth, Course Notes. Packaged with electronic access to Calculus (Early Transcendentals), Third Edition, by Jon Rogawski & Colin Adams, via the Launchpad website. Instructors: David Harmsworth (coordinator, Lecture sections 003) MC 6441, dlharmsw@math.uwaterloo.ca (519 888 4567) ext. 37205 Puneet Sharma (Lecture section 001) MC 6431, p36sharma@uwaterloo.ca (519 888 4567) ext. 39158 Matthew Kennedy (Lecture section 002) MC 5431, matt.kennedy@uwaterloo.ca (519 888 4567) ext. 30346 Alexander Howse (Lecture section 004) MC 6109, ahowse@uwaterloo.ca (519 888 4567) ext. 39237 Mikhail Panine (Lecture section 005) MC 6334, mpanine@uwaterloo.ca (519 888 4567) ext. 32618 Teaching Assistants: A Teaching Assistant will be assigned to each of the 15 tutorial sections. ACCESS TO LAUNCHPAD: Your textbook package includes an access code for the website. To use it, just go to http://www.macmillanhighered.com/launchpad/calculuset3e/1894783. This link and more detailed instructions will also be posted on the course webpage on Desire2Learn (LEARN). Approximate Schedule: Chapter Part 1: Week 1 Functions and other Topics Functions: Definition, Inverse, Composite, Odd and Even, etc. Review of some familiar equations. 2 Fundamentals Piecewise-Defined Functions (including the Heaviside Function). Polynomials, Rational Functions, Partial Fraction Decomposition. The Trigonometric Functions. 3 The Inverse Trigonometric Functions, Some Applications of Trigonometric Identities. Limits. Part 2: Limits and 4 Limits (continued) and Continuity. 5 The Derivative: Definition, Basic Differentiation Rules, Implicit & Logarithmic Continuity Part 3: Differential Calculus Part 4: Differentiation. 6 Midterm Exams 7 Differentials. Curve Sketching and Optimization Techniques. 8 Antidifferentiation. Integral The Definite Integral, Properties of Definite Integrals, and The Fundamental Calculus Theorem of Calculus. Indefinite Integrals. Integration by Substitution. 9 Integration by Parts, Trigonometric Substitutions. Areas Between Curves. 10 Strategies for Integration of Rational Functions. Some Applications of Antidifferentiation / Integration: Separable Differential Equations and Lengths of Curves. Part 5: 11 Improper Integrals. Polar Coordinates, Complex Numbers Complex 12 Euler’s Formula. Application of Complex Numbers to Circuit Analysis (time Numbers GRADING SCHEME: permitting). 10% 25% 65% Assignments Midterm Exam (Monday, October 19th, 8:30-10:20am) Final Exam (date to be announced) ASSIGNMENTS: There will be weekly assignments, posted on the course webpage on Desire2Learn (LEARN). You will be asked to submit them in class, and we will likely use Fridays as our due dates. You’ll be expected to provide full solutions, and the clarity of your explanations may be taken into consideration. Be aware that not every question which is assigned will end up getting marked. Also, please staple your assignments. We may deduct marks for unstapled assignments, or refuse to mark them altogether. In addition to these traditional written assignments, we plan to provide problems on the “Launchpad” website associated with the Rogawski textbook, due on Sunday evenings. The lecture note package available in the UW bookstore will provide you with electronic access to the Rogawski text, and to the Launchpad website. Instructions for registration will be posted on LEARN. Assignments will count for 10% of your grade for the course. Use of Launchpad is optional, but recommended. If you register on the site, your Launchpad assignments will count for 5% of your grade, and the paper assignments will count for the other 5%. If you do not register with Launchpad, your paper assignments will count for the full 10%. Our plan is to use Launchpad for practice of the basics, and to use the paper assignments for more challenging problems. TUTORIALS: During the two-hour weekly tutorials a teaching assistant will work through extra examples related to the topics discussed in recent classes. This may take up most of the first hour. During the second hour you’ll have the opportunity to get some help with the (paper) assignments. We strongly encourage you to try the assignment questions before the tutorial, so that you can get the most out of it. HELP: If you’re still struggling with the assignments after the tutorials, you can find help in the WEEF lab on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 6:30-8:30pm (starting September 22nd). There will also be tutors available in Village 1 (in the Great Hall) on Sundays, 6-9pm (starting September 27th). If you have more general questions about the concepts in the course, then the best thing to do is to see your instructor during office hours. The most important thing is to recognize when you are having trouble, and get help as soon as possible – don’t leave your questions until the week before the final exam! GETTING YOUR MARKED ASSIGNMENTS BACK: We will normally need one week to get all of the (written) assignments graded. We will make one attempt to return them to you in your tutorial. Any assignments not collected in the tutorial may be placed outside of your instructor’s office for two weeks for you to collect, and if you fail to collect an assignment within those two weeks you’ll need to see your instructor during office hours to retrieve it. In order to comply with the provincial Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, we also give you the option of having your written assignments returned to you by mail. If this is what you would prefer, then inform your instructor by email by September 23rd. It would then be your responsibility to provide a sufficiently large, stamped, selfaddressed envelope for each assignment. Solutions to the assignments will be posted on LEARN, as will your assignment grades. However, we still encourage you to collect your own assignments once they’ve been marked, even if it’s just so that you can make sure that your mark has been entered correctly. Any assignments which do not get collected will be kept for one month after the end of term, after which they will be shredded. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE: You are expected to know what constitutes an academic offense (see Policy #71 Student Academic Discipline, http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/Policies/policy71.htm). Although you are encouraged to discuss assignment problems with each other, you are expected to write up your solutions independently. Direct copying (from any source) is plagiarism, and will be treated as an academic offense if detected. ILLNESS DURING EXAMS: If at any time during the term you find that you are unable to complete your work, due to illness or other difficult circumstances, contact the First-Year Engineering Office. If you miss the midterm exam for documented reasons, the weight will be transferred to the final exam. Be aware that we do NOT automatically grant requests for deferrals of final exams. These requests will be granted only to students who are severely ill or otherwise physically incapable of attending the examination, and whose performance in the course suggests a reasonable chance of success. GRIEVANCES: A student who believes that a decision affecting some aspect of his/her university life has been unfair or unreasonable may initiate a grievance. Read Policy 70, Student Petitions and Grievances, Section 4: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/Policies/policy70.htm. If in doubt, contact Karen Dyck in the First Year Engineering office. NOTE FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: AccessAbility Services, located in Needles Hall, Room 1132, collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities without compromising the academic integrity of the curriculum. If you require academic accommodations to lessen the impact of your disability, please register with AccessAbility Services at the beginning of each academic term.
