Math 251
(CRN 13754)
Class Times, Days, and Place: 15:00-15:50 MTWR, 105 FEN
Instructor: Hao Wang
Text Book: Calculus, Concepts & Contexts (4th Edition) by James Stewart.
Office: 321 Fenton Hall
Office Hours: Monday: 2:15-3:00pm and Thursday: 3:50-4:35pm (Otherwise, you need to make an
appointment with me by e-mail.)
Web URL: pages.uoregon.edu/haowang/teaching/251F2017/251.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 Thursday's classes will take the form of a problem session,
followed (most weeks) by a short quiz.
Sometimes a quiz may be arranged on Tuesday or Wednesday. 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. In order to
encourage students to answer questions in class, 1-3 % of the following quiz score will be given according to a student how
initiatively,
vigorously and correctly answer the instructor’s question or example
problem.
Exam: There are two midterms and one final exam. UO ID is needed for each exam. However, advanced calculators and lecture
notes 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 2:30pm of each Thursday or the date specified in the Tentative Syllabus. It is
your responsibility to check the updated Tentative Syllabus each Wednesday 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
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 Sept. 19th, 2017)
Week |
Sections |
Remarks and
topics |
Homework |
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Week 1: 9/25--9/28 |
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: 10/2--10/5 |
2.5; 2.6 |
Limit involving
infinity |
The following HW questions are due on 10/5 Sect 2.4 problems moved to the following week due to our teaching
speed. Read
Section 2.7, 3.1 |
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Week3:10/9-10/12 |
2.7—3.1 |
Examples, derivative as a function, |
The following HW questions are due on 10/12 Sect 2.4 : 10, 11, 34, 35, 37, 55 |
|
Week4:10/16--10/19 |
3.2; 3.3 |
Midterm Exam 1 on Thursday 10/19, |
The following HW questions are due on 10/19
Sect 2.8 :
4, 9, 12, 14, 22, 28, 31 |
|
Week5:10/23-10/26 |
3.4; 3.5 |
The Chain Rule, examples of Implicit Differentiation, Examples of Implicit Differentiation |
The following HW questions are due on 10/26 |
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Week 6: 10/30--11/2 |
3.7; 3.9; 4.1 |
Derivatives of logarithmic functions, Linear approximation and
differentials, related rates |
The following HW questions are due on 11/2 Sect 3.4: 1, 2, 4, 7, 31, 37,
52, 70, 71, 74, 91 Sect 3.7: 12, 25, 48 Sect 3.9: 10, 15, 31 |
|
Week7: 11/6--11/9 |
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 11/9 23, 24, 26 , 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41 Sect 4.2: 5, 8, 11, 23, 28, 29, 36, 41, 43, 47, 51, 62, 65 |
|
Week8:11/13--11/16 |
4.5; 4.6 |
Midterm Exam 2 on Thursday 11/16, Indeterminate Forms and L'Hospital's
Rule |
The following HW question are due on 11/16 Sect 4.3: 4, 7, 8, 13, 17, 20, 41, 49, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 63 Sect 4.5: 2, 4, 6, 12, 16, 61, 65 ,66, 67, 75 Read Section 4.6, 4.7 |
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Week9:11/20--11/23 |
4.6; 4.7 |
Thanksgiving
Vacation.(No Class on 11/23)
|
The following HW questions are due on 11/22 35, 43, 50, 51, 54, 56, 60 |
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Week10:11/27--11/30 |
Review |
Sample Tests, Examples and Review |
The last week has no homework, but we have review practice problems. |
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Office hour after Nov 30: 1:00—2:00pm, Dec 4th, 2017 |
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Final Exam: |
(1)
When: 14:45—16:45, Monday, Dec
4th, 2017. Where: 105 FEN. You need to bring your UO ID. (2)
You
can bring a 8.5”X11” sheet with formulae or
important information for you. But no advanced calculator, no cell phone and
no lecture notes are allowed. Independent work is required. (3)
If
you have a final
time conflicting which means that you have another final exam
occurring at the same time of the final exam of Math 251. Please report to me
as soon as possible. I will arrange a make-up exam for you. |
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