MATH 113 MWF SYLLABUS
INSTRUCTOR: _ ________________________
COURSE TITLE: Precalculus Trigonometry
Spring 2010
SECTION:____________________
CREDIT: 3 HRS
PREREQUISITES: A grade of C- or higher in MA 112
TEXTBOOK AND ACCESS CODE: “Precalculus, 3rd ed." by Beecher, Penna, Bittinger, published by Addison Wesley. An access
code is required to complete all assignments and tests for this course. It allows the student to access the publisher’s website for the
course, where all assignments and tests must be completed and where the entire textbook may be viewed online. Access codes can be
purchased with or without a hard copy of the textbook at a bookstore or online from the publisher.
DESCRIPTION: This course is a continuation of Math 112. It includes the study of trigonometric and inverse trigonometric
functions, as well as extensive work with trigonometric identities and equations. Other topics contained in this course are: vectors,
complex numbers, DeMoivre’s Theorem, polar coordinates, conic sections, sequences, and series.
GENERAL LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR 100-200 LEVEL COURSES:
 Students will be able to discriminate between reliable and less reliable information in their decision-making.
 Students will develop effective mathematical communication skills.
LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THIS COURSE:
 Students will be able to solve equations involving trigonometric functions with angles using both radian and degree measure.
 Students will be able to recognize and use trigonometric functions and their inverses in applications involving right triangles and
oblique triangles.
 Students will be able to graph the trigonometric functions in the x-y plane and graph trigonometric functions in polar form.
 Students will be able to perform vector operations, use vectors in applications, and work with complex numbers in trigonometric
form.
 Students will be able to recognize and graph conic sections and identify their pertinent components.
 Students will be able to recognize arithmetic and geometric sequences and series.
CALCULATOR: Only the calculator on the computer may be used in this course.
TEST DEADLINES:
REGISTRATION WEEK:
Test 1 Tuesday
February 2
8am Friday 1/22 – 5pm Friday 1/29
Test 2: Tuesday
February 23
8am Friday 2/12 – 5pm Friday 2/19
Test 3: Tuesday
March 30
8am Friday 3/19 – 5pm Friday 3/26
Test 4: Tuesday
April 20
8am Friday 4/9 – 5pm Friday 4/16
Final Exam Week: Monday - Friday
May 3-7
8am Friday 4/23 – 5pm Friday 4/30
NOTE: The MTLC is reserved for testing (8am-8pm) during test weeks for the 4 major tests. Study time for tests during
test weeks will be Monday-Thursday from 8pm-10pm. The MTLC is closed for testing during final exam week.
Test times available: Times to be announced in class and through e-mail.
Final Exam times available: 8 am, 11:30 am, 3:30 pm, 7 pm (all times may not be available each day)
Please read Test Rules of this syllabus for detailed information on test reservation and test taking procedures.
COURSE GRADES: This course is under the “A, B, C, and NC” policy, +/- grades will be given. The course grade is determined by
points earned as follows:
4 Tests
Final Exam
Quizzes
Homework
Class Participation
Lab Survey
Total
400 points (100 points each)
300 points
172 points (43 points each test period)
88 points (22 points each test period)
42 points (1 point each)
2 points
1004points
COURSE GRADE SCALE
A+ 980 - 1004, A 920 – 979,
A- 900 - 919
B+ 880 – 899, B 820 – 879, B- 800 - 819
C+ 780 – 799, C 720 – 779, C- 700 - 719
NC – Below 700 NC means NO CREDIT
Students must earn a minimum of 700 points (C-) to successfully pass this course.
WITHDRAW: The last day to drop without grade determination is Wednesday, March 24, 2010. After this date you will be
assigned a grade according to your total points based on the scale above.
MTLC INFORMATION: HOURS: Sunday
4:00 pm – 10:00pm
Mon. – Thurs. 8:00 am – 10:00pm
Friday
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
MTLC phone: 348-2592
MTLC website: www.mtlc.ua.edu
Location: Tutwiler B-1
MTLC CLOSINGS: The lab will be closed on Sunday 1/17 and Monday 1/18 for the Martin Luther King Holiday. The lab will close
for Spring Break on Friday 3/12 at5pm and re-open at 8am Monday 3/22. The lab will be open during final exam week for testing only.
Last day for help in the MTLC will be Sunday 5/2.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FORM: Every student must submit an acknowledgement form, found in the software, acknowledging
that he or she has read the syllabus and understands all the policies for this course. No one will be allowed to do any work until this
form has been completed.
MAKE-UP POLICY: If homework or quizzes are missed due to a serious, verifiable circumstance, then make-up work may be
allowed. Any student requesting to make up work must fill out a petition request form in 345 Gordon Palmer with an excuse and
supporting documents attached. If a test is missed due to a serious, verifiable circumstance, the zero test grade will be replaced with
the final exam grade. Students who must miss work or tests due to official University business must make arrangements for makeup
work beforehand. Students must take excuses to the math department (345 Gordon Palmer) and fill out a petition request form within
2 days of the missed work.
REPLACEMENT POLICY: Everyone will be allowed to replace his/her lowest test grade with the grade made on the final exam.
However, zeros due to an unexcused absence or academic misconduct will not be replaced. Students who miss a test and have an
excuse can have the missed test replaced if a petition request form is filed within two days, and if the request is approved.
HOMEWORK: Homework will be assigned for each section. For each test period students will be allowed to drop one homework
grade. The homework grade will be calculated by taking the average of each of the remaining grades on the homework sections
assigned and converting this to the 22 points you earn for each test period. Homework must be completed before the expiration date
and you must click the “Save” button in order for it to count. No extension will be given.
QUIZZES: There will be a quiz on each section covered. For each test period you will be allowed to drop one section quiz grade.
The remaining quizzes will be averaged and converted to the 43 points you earn for each test period. NOTE: You will not be given
help on your quizzes or tests.
ATTENDANCE POLICIES: Attendance for this course is mandatory. You are expected to attend all of your scheduled classes.
Class meets each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless noted. Each class counts 1 point toward your class participation grade.
Each class will consist of a lecture for the material assigned. The MTLC in B1 Tutwiler is available for you to do homework and
quizzes.
WORKING FROM HOME: The Math 113 software can be installed on the student’s personal computer. Internet access and the
appropriate plug-ins are required in order to use the website where the notes, homework, and exercises are found. The website for the
software is www.ua.mylabsplus.com. If this page fails to load, try typing the address again rather than selecting it from a drop-down
menu. Login with your login and password created in the MTLC. Click into your course and select the installation wizard from the
selection of buttons on the left hand side of the screen. Install all components. NOTE: Students doing graded work from home risk
grades not being properly saved. If scores are not successfully sent from home FOR ANY REASON and the deadline passes, the
student will NOT be able to make up the work. Remember all tests must be completed in the MTLC.
EMAIL REQUIREMENT: All correspondence for this course will be made through your crimson email account. If you do not yet
have a crimson account, then you can get one activated at the Seebeck help desk located in 125 Gordon Palmer. You can reach your
instructor by emailing your instructor at ma113mtl@bama.ua.edu. Please put your instructor’s name in the subject box. Replies to
automated emails cannot be answered.
MTLC RULES
1. The MTLC is a math classroom. Please be quiet during your visit to the MTLC.
2. In the MTLC, students will only be allowed to work on their homework assignments. Activities such as playing computer
games, typing a paper, surfing the Internet, sleeping, etc. are prohibited.
3. The use of a computer in the MTLC is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
4. Cell phones, food, drinks (including water), tobacco products, and companions are NOT allowed in the MTLC. Your cell
phone needs to be out of sight and turned off. A cell phone violation will cause your cell phone to be detained until you
leave the MTLC.
5. Please do not hesitate to ask questions in the MTLC. Staff members in the MTLC are there to help you learn math.
TEST RULES: Tests must be taken in the MTLC.
1. There are four 75-minute tests and a 150-minute comprehensive final exam. Test dates are listed on the front page of the syllabus.
2. You may take your tests early: “Early” means before the close of online registration for that exam. No registration is needed
and no penalties will apply for early tests. However, no tests will be given at all on Sundays. You may not begin a test if the
MTLC is scheduled to close before the end of your full allotted time: usually you must begin by 8pm (7pm for a final exam), or on
Fridays by 3pm (2pm for a final exam).
3. You must reserve a time in order to take an exam on a test deadline day. Test weeks are a logistical challenge; you must tell
MTLC when you will come, and you must do what you say. The front page of the syllabus lists beginning and ending dates/times
for online registration for each exam. To register online, go to the MTLC website (www.mtlc.ua.edu), select link Test
Registration, log in as instructed, select link Register, then choose an available date and time. You may freely cancel or change
your test time while online registration is active. Be sure to verify your registration: log back in to the test registration site or
check your confirmation email message.
4. After online registration closes (at 5pm on Friday before the deadline week), you must come in person to the MTLC to register
or to change your test time. You must sign up manually with the instructor on duty; no phone calls or email arrangements can be
accepted. In this case, points will be deducted from your test grade as follows:
10 points if you did not register online
5 points if you change your test time after online registration closes but before your scheduled test time
10 points if you miss your test time and reschedule, or if no open seats remain when you come to register
These penalties are CUMULATIVE. You may fill out a petition request form to have the penalty waived if you have a
valid excuse.
5. If you miss a test and your course’s testing period has NOT ended, come to the MTLC to reschedule. If the testing period is over,
see REPLACEMENT POLICY above.
6. Arrive on time for your test. Tardiness will cost you working time on the test. Bring your ID and pencils with you. Swipe your
ACT card at the MTLC entrance and then follow signs to the back hallway. Staff will check your ID and give you a personalized
test paper (which is your initial scratch paper), then direct you to your seat.
7. Absolutely NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES may be active in the testing area. All cell phones, texting devices, iPods, MP3
players, etc must be turned off and put away before you pick up your test paper. Use of any electronic device during a test will be
treated as academic misconduct.
8. Place all belongings on the floor. Once you enter the testing area, all review material must be put away. As soon as you are seated,
you may begin your exam. The MTLC will give you additional scratch paper as needed; no other paper is allowed. When you are
finished, staff will collect all papers. Warning: do NOT touch the browser’s BACK button, your test will close and you will have
to start over.
9. ONLY THE CALCULATOR ON THE COMPUTER MAY BE USED ON TESTS. The only webpage that may be opened
during a test is the testing page. Opening any other website during testing will be treated as academic misconduct.
10. An MTLC staff member must be present when your test is submitted for a grade: if it does not store correctly it is at risk for
getting LOST.
11. You will be allowed to review your test before you leave the lab. You may not write down any information pertaining to test
questions to take with you when you leave the MTLC after an exam. You may not share any test information with anyone who
hasn’t taken the test. Violators will be charged with academic misconduct.
CODE OF ACADEMIC CONDUCT: All students in attendance at the University of Alabama are expected to be honorable and to
observe standards of conduct appropriate to a community of scholars. The University expects from its students a higher standard of
conduct than the minimum required to avoid discipline. Academic misconduct includes all acts of dishonesty in any academically
related matter and any knowing or intentional help or attempt to help, or conspiracy to help, another student.
The Academic Misconduct Disciplinary Policy will be followed in the event of academic misconduct.
DISABILITY ACCESS STATEMENT: For those students wishing to request disability accommodations, please contact the Office
of Disability Services at 348-4285. After initial arrangements are made with that office, then contact your professor. Your professor
will be glad to work with you to make sure your needs are properly met.
Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL):
 CTL offers Test Review times.
 CTL offers weekly help sessions in the MTLC.
 CTL website: www.ctl.ua.edu

Free personal tutorial appointments are available at the CTL in Osband Hall. Call 348-8854 to schedule an appointment.
MATH SOFTWARE LOGIN INFORMATION: (The MTLC sets up the login information for each student. If you cannot
login with this following information, then please come to the MTLC for assistance.) website: www.ua.mylabsplus.com
Your username: your crimson email address
example: jksmith@crimson.ua.edu
Your password: CWID
example: 12345678
Meeting
1/11
1/13
1/15
1/18
1/20
1/22
1/25
1/27
Test 1 Material: Test 1 – February 2 (Tuesday ONLY!)
Section Topics
Orientation
5.1
Trigonometric Functions of Acute angles
5.2
Applications of Right Triangles
Syllabus Quiz – Must be taken in the MTLC
2/15
2/17
2/19 & 2/22
Trigonometric Functions of Any Angle
Radians and Arc Length
Circular Functions: Graphs and Properties
Graphs of Transformed Sine and Cosine Functions
Test Rules Quiz
Review
Test 2 Material: Test 2 – February 23 (Tuesday ONLY!)
Section Topics
6.1
Pythagorean, Sum, and Difference Identities
6.2
Cofunction, Double-Angle, and Half-Angle Identities
6.3
Proving Trigonometric Identities
6.4
Inverses of Trigonometric Functions
6.5
Solving Trigonometric Equations
Review
Meeting
2/24
2/26
3/1 & 3/3
3/5 & 3/8
3/10 & 3/12
3/15 – 3/19
3/22 & 3/24
3/26
Section
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
Meeting
3/31
4/2
4/5
4/7
4/9
4/12
4/14
4/16 & 4/19
Section
9.1
9.2
9.3
10.1
Meeting
4/21
4/23, 4/26, 4/28 & 4/30
Fri. 1/15 at 8am
Wed. 1/20 at 8am
Wed. 1/20 at 8am
No Class – MLK Day Holiday
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
1/29 & 2/1
Meeting
2/3 & 2/5
2/8
2/10 & 2/12
Completion Deadline
7.6
10.2
10.3
Test 3 Material: Test 3 – March 30 (Tuesday ONLY!)
Topics
Law of Sines
Law of Cosines
Complex Numbers: Trigonometric Form
Polar Coordinates and Graphs
Vectors and Applications
No Class - Spring Break
Vector Operations
Review
Test 4 Material: Test 4 – April 20 (Tuesday ONLY!)
Topics
Parabolas
The Circle and Ellipse
The Hyperbola
Sequences and Series
No Class – Honor’s Day
Arithmetic Sequences and Series
Geometric Sequences and Series
Review
Section
Final Exam: May 3 -7
Topics
No Class
Review
Last day for help in the lab is Sunday May 2
Fri. 1/22 at 8am
Mon. 1/25 at 8am
Wed. 1/27 at 8am
Fri. 1/29 at 8am
Fri. 1/29 at 8am
Completion Deadline
Mon. 2/8 at 8am
Wed. 2/10 at 8am
Mon. 2/15 at 8am
Wed. 2/17 at 8am
Fri. 2/19 at 8am
Completion Deadline
Friday 2/26 at 3pm
Mon. 3/1 at 8am
Fri. 3/5 at 8am
Wed. 3/10 at 8am
Wed. 3/24 at 8am
Fri. 3/26 at 8am
Completion Deadline
Friday 4/2 at 3pm
Mon. 4/5 at 8am
Wed. 4/7 at 8am
Mon. 4/12 at 8am
Wed. 4/14 at 8am
Fri. 4/16 at 8am