Math 251
(CRN 24858)

Class Times, Days, and Place: 10:00-10:50 MUWF,  303 DEA
Instructor: Hao Wang
Text Book:  Calculus: Early Transcendentals , Fifth edition , by James Stewart,, published by Brooks/Cole Publishing Company,  2003
Office: 11A Deady Hall
Office Hours: Monday: 10:50-11:30pm, Wednesday:10:50-11:30pm (Otherwise, you need to make an appointment with me by e-mail.)
Email:  haowang@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Web URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~haowang/teaching/251_WIN2005/251.html

Grading Policy

Your course grade is the sum of  following performance scores: The homeworks will count as 15% of the course grade; The in-class quizzes  will also count as 15%; The midterms will count as 20%;  and the final exam will count as 50%.

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 open-book 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.

Homework:  Homework questions  are posted in the following Tentative Syllabus of this web page which will be updated very often. Homework is due weekly at the Firday's lecture. No homework is accepted late.  It is your responsibility to check the updated Tentative Syllabus each day before you start to do your homework.  One lowest homework scores 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,  and last name (In order to protect your rights to confidentiality of your papers, don't write down your ID number on homework paper.) on each page. Your homework will be returned in the return boxes by your paper marker. Please find your return box and pick up your homeworks promptly.  Poor attendance may alter this policy; see "Attendance" below.

Exam:  There are two midterms and one final exam. For each exam, you can bring  a 8.5" by 11" sheet 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. The times of the midterm and final exams are specified and can't be changed. There is no make-up exams.

Attendance:  Attendance is mandatory. Your attendance will be checked randomly.  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 homeworks and quizzes  may be given according to number of lectures missed.
 
 
 
 

                                      Tentative Syllabus
                          (Updated on Dec 28, 2004)

Week  Sections  Remarks and topics  Homework 
Week 1: 1/3--1/7 2.1; 2.2  Introduction, pre-req. test, review precalculus,
 The tangent and the velocity problems
 Limit of a function
Read Chapter 1 and Section 2.1--2.3 and 2.5
 there is no homework this week.

Week 2:1/10--1/14 2.3; 2.5  Calculating limits using the limit laws, continuity,
 derivatives
 The following HW questions are due on 1/14 
 Sect 2.1: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7
 Sect 2.2: 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 12, 19, 24
 Sect 2.3 : 2, 3, 12, 13, 30, 36

Week 3:1/17--1/21  2.8; 2.9;   No class on Jan 17, Monday (Martin Luther King 
  holiday)
 Examples, derivative as a function,
 derivatives of polynomials and exponential functions
 The following HW questions are due on 1/21
 Sect 2.5:  3, 18,19, 31, 32, 45, 47
 Sect 2.8: 3, 5, 8,19, 23 
 Read Section 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3

Week 4:1/24--1/28 3.1; 3.2; 3.4;   Midterm Exam 1 on Tusday
 Product and quotient rules, examples,
 derivatives of trigonometric functions
 The following HW questions are due on 1/28 
 Sect 2.9 : 4, 5, 9, 22, 24
 Sect 3.1: 5, 6, 11, 20, 22, 23, 48
 Read Section 3.5

Week 5:1/31-2/4 3.5  The Chain Rule, examples of 
aplication of chain rule
The following HW questions are due on 2/4
 Sect 3.2: 7, 9, 12, 20, 24, 26, 41,
 Sect 3.4: 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 24, 30, 36 
 Read Section  3.6

Week 6: 2/7--2/11  3.6  Implicit Differentiation
Examples of Implicit Differentiation
The following HW questions are due on 2/11 
Sect 3.5:  4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12,  18, 24
36, 38, 40, 42, 57 
Read Section 3.7 and 3.8

Week 7:2/14--2/18  3.7; 3.8 Higher derivatives
Derivatives of logrithmic functions
The following HW questions are due on 2/18
 Sect 3.6: 5, 10, 20,  43, 44, 45
 Sect 3.7: 4, 6, 15, 24, 32
Read Section 4.1 

Week 8:2/21--2/25  4.1 Midterm Exam 2 on Tuesday
Applications and Examples of Max. and Min. Values 
The following HW question are due on 2/25
Sect 3.8: 2, 4, 7, 16, 17, 22, 26 ,42, 43
Read Section 4.3 

Week 9:2/28--3/4 4.3  How derivatives affect the shape of a graph
Applications and Examples
The following HW questions are due on 3/4
 Sect 4.1: 4, 6, 7, 8, 16, 17,18, 19, 20, 47, 55,57
Read Section  4.4

Week 10:3/7--3/11  4.4 Indeterminate Forms and L'Hospital's Rule
Applications of  L'Hospital's Rule
Review 
The following questions are due on 3/11
Sect 4.3 : 6, 7,  12, 18, 32, 40, 46 
Sect 4.4: 5, 10, 17, 26, 35

 

 















 Office hour after March 11th: 9:00-10:00am Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
Final Exam:  10:15am-12:15pm, March 17, 20005


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