MA121 Syllabus (TR)
Spring Semester, 2010
INSTRUCTOR: _______________________________________________
SECTION: ____________________
COURSE TITLE: Calculus and Applications----COMPUTER BASED
TEXTBOOK AND ACCESS CODE: "Calculus with Applications: Brief Version, 9th edition" by Lial, Greenwell, and Ritchey,
published by Addison Wesley. An access code is required to complete all assignments and tests for this course. The access code
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.
PREREQUISITE: C- or higher in MATH112 or a minimum of 440 on the placement test.
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: This course is intended to give a broad overview of Calculus and is taken
primarily by students majoring in Commerce and Business Administration. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
differentiate and integrate algebraic, exponential, logarithmic, and multivariable functions; find the area between two curves; apply the
concepts to graphing functions as well as applications pertaining to business and economics. This course does not provide sufficient
background for students who will need higher levels of Calculus. Note: This course does not satisfy the requirement for Math 125.
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 differentiate and integrate algebraic, exponential, logarithmic, and multivariable functions.
 Students will be able to analyze graphs to determine where the graphs are increasing, decreasing, continuous, and to
determine the limits of functions.
 Students will be able to classify values as the minimum or maximum values of functions.
 Students will be able to calculate the area between two curves.
 Students will be able to apply the methods taught in this course to real-life business applications.
CALCULATOR:
Only the calculator on the computer may be used in this course.
GRADE: The course grading is under the “A, B, C, D, or F” policy, +/- grades will be given. The final grade will be based on your
total points for the semester. Your total points will be a number between 0 and 1004 determined by the following
4 Tests
400 points (100 points each)
Final Exam
300 points
Quizzes
172 points (43 points each test period)
Homework
88 points (22 points each test period)
Class Participation
42 points (1.5 points for each class)
Survey
2 points
Total
1004 points
COURSE GRADE SCALE
A+ 980 – 1004,
B+ 880 – 899,
C+ 780 – 799,
D+ 670 – 699,
A
B
C
D
920 – 979, A- 900 – 919
820 – 879, B- 800 – 819
720 – 779, C- 700 – 719
600-669,
F <600
Students must earn a minimum of 700 points (C-) to successfully pass this course.
TEST DEADLINES:
REGISTRATION WEEK:
Test 1 Wednesday
February 3
8am Friday 1/22 – 5pm Friday 1/29
Test 2: Wednesday
February 24
8am Friday 2/12 – 5pm Friday 2/19
Test 3: Wednesday
March 31
8am Friday 3/19 – 5pm Friday 3/26
Test 4: Wednesday
April 21
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 email.
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.
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
MTLC Location: B1 Tutwiler
MTLC CLOSINGS: The lab will be closed on Sunday 1/17 and Monday 1/18 for the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. The lab will
close for Spring Break on Friday 3/12 at 5pm 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.
WITHDRAW: Wednesday, March 24 is the last day to withdraw from this class with a W. No drops will be allowed after this date.
After this date you will be assigned a grade based according to your total points based on the scale above.
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 complete any
assignments until this form has been completed.
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 ma121mtl@bama.ua.edu. Please put your instructor’s name in the subject box. Replies to
automated emails cannot be answered.
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.
ATTENDANCE: Attendance for this course is mandatory. You are expected to attend all of your scheduled classes. Class meets
each Tuesday and Thursday unless noted. Each class counts 1.5 points 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.
QUIZZES and HOMEWORK: There will be a quiz and a graded homework assignment given on each section covered. They must
be completed before each expiration date and time. No extension will be given. For each test period you will be allowed to drop one
quiz grade and one homework grade. The grade will be calculated by averaging the remaining quizzes and homework scores for each
test period. The quiz grade for each test period will be calculated by taking the average of each of the grades on the assigned quizzes
(dropping the lowest one) and converting this to the 43 points allowed for each test period. The homework grade for each test period
will be calculated by taking the average of each of the grades (dropping the lowest one) on the assigned homework sections and
converting this to the 22 points allowed for each test period. Homework can be worked on until all questions are correct. You
must click the “Save” button in order for the software to record your score. Be aware that some of the homework problems
do not have the learning aids. You can select similar question for any question that you miss and try again until you get it
correct. You have only one try for each quiz. You must hit the “Submit” button to score your quiz. NOTE: You will not be
given help on your quizzes or tests. Tests must be taken in the MTLC
REPLACEMENT POLICY: Everyone will be allowed to replace the 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 but have an
excuse must turn in a petition request form, with excuse and supporting documents attached, at the math department office (345
Gordon Palmer) within two days of missed work. The missed test will be replaced if the petition request panel approves the excuse.
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 (see Replacement Policy). Students who miss work due to official University business must make other
arrangements beforehand.
WORKING FROM HOME: The Math 121 course work can be done on your personal computer. However, there is a risk when
working outside the MTLC. Internet access is required in order to reach the website where the notes, homework, and exercises are
found. The website is http://ua.mylabsplus.com. If this page ever fails to load, try typing the website rather than choosing it from the
dropdown menu. There are plugins to be downloaded in order for a successful operation from home. To get these, you will login to
the website with your own personal login and password as given by the MTLC. Next, click on your course section. Select the
INSTALLATION WIZARD from the link that appears on the screen on the right. Then follow the instructions on the screen. 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, you will NOT be able to make up the work. All tests must be taken in the MTLC.
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.
MTLC RULES
1. The MTLC is a math classroom. Please be quiet during your visit to the MTLC.
2. The monitor will swipe your ACT card when you enter the MTLC and swipe it when you leave, even for a short break. Do not
present an ACT card other than your own. Violators will be charged with academic misconduct and reported to the dean’s
office.
3. Cell phones, food, drinks (including water), tobacco products, and companions are NOT allowed in the Center. A cell phone
violation will cause your cell phone to be detained until you leave the MTLC. Your cell phone needs to be out of sight and
turned off.
4. Other than mathematics, no activities such as talking, surfing the Internet, playing computer games, typing a paper, sleeping, etc.
is allowed in the MTLC, you will be asked to leave the MTLC.
5. The use of a computer in the MTLC is on a first-come first-serve basis; no reservation can be made for normal course work.
(Reservations are required for tests. See Test Rules above.)
6. Take notes. Record each homework score and each quiz score in your notebook.
7. Please do not hesitate to ask questions in the MTLC. Staff members in the MTLC are there to help you.
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.
12. During the testing weeks in the lab (Monday-Thursday), the MTLC will be available for studying from 8pm-10pm each evening.
The lab will be closed for testing only from 8am-8pm each of the testing days. The lab will be closed for testing only for the final
exam.
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: http://ua.mylabsplus.com
username: your crimson email address
example: jksmith@crimson.ua.edu
password:
personal CWID
example: 12345678
NOTE: You will find your current course under the Alabama Spring 2010 Term
Date
1/12
1/14
1/19
1/21
1/26
1/28
2/2
Date
2/4
2/9
2/11
2/16
2/18
2/23
Date
2/25
3/2
3/4
3/9
3/11
3/23
3/25
3/30
Date
4/1
4/6
4/8
4/13
4/15
4/20
Date
4/22
4/27& 4/28
Section
2.5
3.1
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
4.1
4.2
Section
4.3
4.4
4.5
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.3
Test 1 Material: Test 1 is on Wednesday 2/3
Title
ORIENTATION
Logarithmic Functions
Limits (graphs & properties)
Syllabus Quiz---must be taken in the MTLC
Limits (algebraically & infinity)
Continuity
Rates of Change
Definition of Derivative
Techniques for Finding Derivatives
Test Rules Quiz
Derivatives of Products and Quotients
Test 1 Review
Completion Deadline
Tuesday 1/19 by 8:00am
Thursday 1/21 by 8:00 am
Thursday 1/21 by 8:00 am
Thursday 1/21 by 8:00 am
Tuesday 1/26 by 8:00 am
(1 Hw & 1 Quiz on both)
Thursday 1/28 by 8:00 am
Thursday 1/28 by 8:00am
MONDAY 2/1 by 8:00am
Test 2 Material: Test 2 is on Wednesday 2/24
Title
The Chain Rule
Derivatives of Exponential Functions
Derivatives of Logarithmic Functions
Increasing and Decreasing Functions
Relative Extrema
Completion Deadline
Tuesday 2/9 by 8:00 am
Thursday 2/11 by 8:00 am
Thursday 2/11 by 8:00 am
Tuesday 2/16 by 8:00am
Thursday 2/18 by 8:00am
Higher Derivatives (only)
Higher Derivatives; Concavity, and the Second Derivative Test
MONDAY 2/22 by 8:00 am
Test 2 Review
Section
6.1
6.2
6.4
6.6
7.1
7.2
7.2
7.3
7.4
Section
7.5
7.5
9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
Test 3 Material: Test 3 is on Wednesday 3/31
Title
Absolute Extrema
Applications of Extrema
Implicit Differentiation
Differentials
Antiderivatives
Substitution
Closed for Spring Break
Substitution--review
Area and the Definite Integral
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Test 3 Review
Test 4 Material: Test 4 is on Wednesday 4/21
Title
The Area Between Two Curves
The Area Between Two Curves (surplus)
Functions of Several Variables
Partial Derivatives
Maxima and Minima
Lagrange Multipliers
Test 4 Review
Review for Final Exam
Title
Section
No class
Review for Final Exam
Last day for help in the lab is Sunday May 2
Final Exam is in the week of May 3-7
Completion Deadline
Tuesday 3/2 by 8:00 am
Thursday 3/4 by 8:00 am
Tuesday 3/9 by 8:00 am
Tuesday 3/9 by 8:00 am
Thursday 3/11 by 8:00 am
Thursday 3/25 by 8:00 am
Thursday 3/25 by 8:00 am
Thursday 3/25 by 8:00 am
MONDAY 3/29 by 8:00 am
Completion Deadline
Thursday 4/8 by 8:00 am
Thursday 4/8 by 8:00 am
Thursday 4/8 by 8:00 am
Tuesday 4/13 by 8:00 am
Thursday 4/15 by 8:00 am
MONDAY 4/19 by 8:00 am
Completion Deadline