MATH 9B – First Year Calculus

Spring 2008

 

 

Professor: Dr. Janet Vassilev
Office: Surge 233  Office Hours:  MW 10-11 am, F 11-12 am, and by appointment.

email: jvassil@ucr.edu

webpage: http://math.ucr.edu/~jvassil

Text :  Calculus, (11th Edition), Thomas, Weir, Hass and Giordano. Read it! We will cover chapters 5-7 and most of chapter 8.

Course Meetings:  The course lectures will be held in HMNSS 1501 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:10-10:00 am.  Discussion sessions will be held on Tuesday with Elie Atallah (6:4o PM and 7:40 PM) or Hwa Young Lee (8:10 PM ).  You are expected to attend both the lectures and the discussion sessions as per Math Department decree. 

Pilot Program:  This quarter, I am working in conjunction with the Learning Center to offer you extra help.  We are participating in a Pilot Program which will provide you with feedback early on in the course.  We will track your progress on homework and quizzes and super quizzes.  If you do not perform well on the first three assignments (homework or quiz) in Discussion or on the first two online super quizzes, you will be receiving an email from me suggesting that you to enroll in a special program to work with some peer mentors to help you to learn to succeed in Calculus.  I have developed some special online quizzes to help us view your progress in the course.  Every other Friday, you will need to login to ilearn to take a super quiz which will be part of your grade and will help to determine whether or not you are progressing in the course.  

Tips for Success: * Come to class!  It is amazing how much you can learn by being attentive in class.  * Collaborative learning is encouraged but remember that only YOU will be taking the quizzes and exams... * Like all mathematics, calculus is not a spectator sport; you will learn only by doing!  You will find that a consistent effort will be rewarded. * Be organized.   Have a notebook or binder for Calculus alone to keep your class notes, homework, quizzes and exams in order.  * No question you have should be left unanswered.  Ask your questions in class, discussion session or take advantage of office hours.

Homework and Quizzes (100 points):  Homework will be assigned daily and the starred problems will be collected during the next week’s discussion session.  No late homework will be accepted.  Homework will not be graded unless it is written in order and labeled appropriately.    An answer alone will get 0 points.  Make sure to justify every answer.  Not all homework problems will be graded; a few will be chosen and each assignment will be graded out of a total of 10 points.  There will occasionally be a 10 point quiz (1-2 problems similar to the homework) either during discussion session or lecture to assure that you have mastered the material from any of the previous lectures.  Do not avoid word problems because they will appear regularly on quizzes and tests.  Your lowest homework and quiz will be dropped and the remaining homework and quizzes will be averaged to get a score out of 100. 

Super Quizzes (100 points):  These will be online quizzes that you will take every other Friday, but the last one will be on a Wednesday.  I will remind you about them in class, but it will be your responsibility to take the quiz sometime after class on Friday.   You will have until midnight to take the quiz.  The format will be multiple choice and the problems will be similar to problems that I assign as homework.  Each super quiz will be worth 20 points and there will be a total of 5 super quizzes to make a total of 100 points toward your overall grade.

Exams (300 points):  I will give one midterm (100 points) and a final (200 points). An ID will be required to take all exams.  There are no make up exams. If a test is missed, notify me as soon as possible on the day of the exam. For the midterms only, if you have a legitimate and documented excuse, your grade will be recalculated without that test.  The midterm is tentatively scheduled on Wednesday,  May 7.  The Final is on Tuesday,  June 12, from 8-11 am.

Grades:  General guidelines for letter grades:  Homework and quizzes will be assigned grades on a 10 point scale but the tests and super quizzes will usually be curved depending on your performance as a class on  them.

In assigning Final Grades for the course, I will compare your grade on all course work including the final and your grade on the Final Exam.  You will receive the better of the two grades.

Calculator Policy:  It is the Math Department’s policy to forbid the use of calculators on both exams and quizzes.

Tentative Schedule (for Dr. Vassilev’s Calculus 9B):

Date

Section

Topic

Homework

3/31

 5.1

Riemann Sums

5.1 1-11 odd, *6, *8, *12

4/2

5.2

Sigma notation and Riemann sums

5.2 1-17 odd, *2, *16, *18

4/4

5.3

The Definite Integral

5.2 19-23 odd, 29, 31, 37, *32, *36

5.3 1-7 odd, *6

4/7

5.3

The Definite Integral continued

5.3 9-37 odd, 55-61 odd, *10, *18, *20, *56

4/9

5.4

The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

5.4 1-35 odd, *14, *22, *34, *36

4/11

5.4/5.6

Area between curves (Super Quiz 1)

 5.4 37-45 odd, *40, *46; 5.6 29-39 odd, 41-47 odd, *30, *44

4/14

5.5/5.6

Indefinite Integrals/Substitution 

5.6 1-21 odd, 51-57 odd, *8, *12, *54

4/16

6.1

Volumes by slicing-discs

6.113-37 odd, 45, 47,  *14, *22, *34, *46

4/18

6.1,6.2

Volumes by slicing-washers

6.2 1-11 odd, 15, 17, 27-31 odd, *6, *16, *28

4/21

6.2

Volumes by shells

6.1 1-7 odd, *4

4/23

6.1, 6.3

Volumes by slicing (squares, rectangles and triangles)

Arc Length

6.3 7-15 odd, *8, *10

4/25

6.5

Surface Area (Super Quiz 2)

6.5 3-7(a) odd, 13-21 odd, *2a, *20

4/28

6.4

Center of Mass

6.4 13-21 odd,  *14, *18

4/30

6.6

Work

6.6 1-9 odd *2, *4, *8

5/2

6.6

Work

6.6 15-23 odd, 35, *16, *20

5/5

 

Review

 

5/7

 

Midterm

 

5/9

7.1-7.2

Inverse Functions

7.1 1-17 odd, 31, *32

7.2 5-23 odd, 37-49 odd *14, *24, *43

5/12

7.3-7.4

Exponential Functions

7.3 17-27 odd, 41-53 odd, *22, *44

7.4 11-25 odd, 47-51 odd, *24, *50

5/14

7.7

Inverse Trig Functions

7.4 39-45 odd, *44

7.7 49-61 odd, 71-91 odd, *62, *64, *74

5/16

7.5,7.6

Exponential Growth and Decay ,Relative Rates of Growth

 (Super Quiz 3)

7.5 3, 5, 7, 17, 21, *6, *8, *18

7.6 1,5,9,*10

5/19

 8.1

Integration Tricks

8.1 1-17 odd, 37-43 odd, 47-51 odd, 53, 55, 63, *20, *38, *48, *54, *64

 

5/21

8.2

Integration by Parts

8.2 1-23 odd, *6, *10, *16

5/23

8.3

Partial Fractions (Super Quiz 4)

8.3 1-19 odd, *2, *10, *18

5/28

8.3

Partial Fractions

8.3 21-33 odd, *22, *24, *34

5/30

8.4

Trig Integrals

8.4 1-13 odd, 25, 29, *4, *8, *30

6/2

8.5

Trig Substitution

 

6/4

8.6

Integral Tables (Super Quiz 5)

 

6/6

Review

 

 

6/12

Final