Math 251
(CRN 36200)
Class Times, Days, and Place: 1:00-1:50pm MTWF,102 DEA
Instructor: Hao Wang
Text Book: Calculus, Concepts & Contexts (4th
Edition) by James Stewart.
Office: 11A Deady Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday: 2:00-2:50pm and Friday: 2:00-2:50pm (Otherwise,
you need to make an appointment with me by e-mail.)
Web URL: pages.uoregon.edu/haowang/teaching/251_SPR2014/251.html
Grading Policy: Your course grade is the sum of following performance scores: The homework will count as 15% of the course
grade; the in-class quizzes will count as 25%; the midterm will count as 30% and the final exam will count as 30%.
Quizzes: Usually Tuesday's classes will take the form of a problem session, followed (most weeks) by a short quiz. Sometimes
a quiz may not be arranged on Tuesday. There will be five or six quizzes. Your lowest quiz score will be dropped. Remaining quiz
scores will be averaged and contributed to the
course grade. There is no make-up quiz.
Exam: There are two midterms and one common final exam. UO ID is needed for each exam. However, calculators are not
allowed on each exam. Students are prohibited from giving or receiving unauthorized help on exam without permission from the
instructor. Otherwise, an appropriate academic sanction may be given. Academic misconduct is defined in The University Student
Conduct Code. For each exam (including quizzes), you can bring a 3x5 inch index card with formulae or useful notes for you. Your
solution to each exam problem should be legible and describe your ideas clearly. No details will have no scores. Midterm and final
exam dates and times are specified and can't be changed. There are no make-up exams.
Homework: Homework questions and due dates are posted in the following Tentative Syllabus of this web page which will be
updated very often. Homework is due weekly before 3:00pm of each Friday or the date specified in the Tentative Syllabus. It is
your responsibility to check the updated Tentative Syllabus each Thursday afternoon or the date before the specified due date in the
Tentative Syllabus. Late handing in homework will not be accepted. One lowest homework score will be dropped and the
remaining homework scores will be averaged and contributed to the course grade. You can discuss with other students while
working on your homework problems, but copying other students' answers is not allowed, otherwise a penalty of score deduction
may be given. Your solution to each homework problem should be legible and should describe your ideas clearly. No details will
have no scores. Please use 8.5" by 11" sheets to do your homework and don't forget to write down your first name, middle name
and last name (In order to protect your rights to confidentiality of your
papers, don't write down your
homework paper.) on each page. Your homework will be returned in the class. Poor attendance may alter this policy; see
"Attendance" below.
Attendance: Attendance is mandatory. You are responsible for all the announcements, changes, course information, and topics
that I cover in class. If you miss a substantial number of lectures without discussing the matter with me and without a valid
excuse, a penalty of score deduction of homework and quizzes may be given according to number of lectures missed.
Course Outcomes: A successful student of this course should be able to understand the great idea of limit, which brings
motion into mathematics, use the limit operation, find the differentiation of different functions, model related practical
problems, such as maximum or minimum value problems and optimization problems, and solve the problems by differentiation.
Tentative Syllabus
(Updated on March 28th, 2014)
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Week |
Sections |
Remarks and
topics |
Homework |
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Week 1: 3/31--4/4 |
2.1--2.5 |
Introduction, pre-req. test, and review pre-calculus. The tangent and the velocity problems, Limit of a function, Calculating limits using the limit laws, continuity, |
Read Chapter
1 and Section 2.1-- 2.6 |
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Week2: 4/7--4/11 |
2.5; 2.6 |
Limit involving
infinity |
The following HW questions are due on 4/11 Sect 2.4 : 10, 11, 34, 35, 37, 55 Read Section 2.7, 3.1 |
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Week3: 4/14--4/18 |
2.7—3.1 |
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The following HW questions are due on 4/18 |
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Week4: 4/21--4/25 |
3.2; 3.3 |
Midterm Exam 1 on Tuesday |
The following HW questions are due on 4/25
Sect 2.8 :
4, 9, 12, 14, 22, 28, 31 |
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Week5: 4/28-5/2 |
3.4; 3.5 |
The Chain Rule, examples of Implicit Differentiation, Examples of Implicit Differentiation |
The following HW questions are due on 5/2 |
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Week 6: 5/5--5/9 |
3.7; 3.9; 4.1 |
Derivatives of logarithmic functions, Linear approximation and
differentials, related rates |
The following HW questions are due on 5/9 Sect 3.4: 1, 2, 4, 7, 31, 37,
52, 70, 71, 74, 91 |
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Week7: 5/12--5/16 |
4.2; 4.3 |
Applications and Examples of Max. and Min. Values , Derivatives and the shapes of curves |
The following HW questions are due on 5/16 |
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Week8: 5/19--5/23 |
4.5; 4.6 |
Midterm Exam 2 on Tuesday Indeterminate Forms and L'Hospital's Rule |
The following HW question are due on 5/23 Sect 4.2: 5, 8, 11, 23, 28, 29, 36, 41, 43, 47, 51,
62, 65 |
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Week9: 5/28--5/30 |
4.6; 4.7 |
No class on May 26, Monday (Memorial day)
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The following HW questions are due on 5/30 Sect 4.5: 2, 4, 6, 12, 16, 61, 65 ,66, 67, 75 |
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Week10: 6/2--6/6 |
Review |
Sample Tests, Examples and Review |
The following questions are due on 6/6 |
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Office hour after June 6: 1:00pm—2:00pm, June 10, 2014 |
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Final Exam: |
(1)
When: 6:00pm—8:00pm, June
10, 2014. Where: 306 Deady Hall. You need to bring your UO ID. (2) You can bring a 3X5 index card. But no
calculator. |
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