Campus: Ohio University, Athens Campus
Department: Mathematics
Academic Year: 2016 - 2017
Term: Fall Semester
Course: Math 1350
Title: Survey of Calculus
Section: 100 (Class Number 3909)
Instructor: Mark Barsamian
Contact Information: My contact information is posted on my web page .
Office Hours: By appointment.

Course Description: A survey of basic concepts of calculus for students who want an introduction to calculus, but who do not need the depth of MATH 2301

Prerequisites: MATH 113 or MATH 1200 or Placement level 2 or higher.

Note: Students cannot earn credit for both MATH 1350 and either of MATH 2301

Class meetings: Section 100 (Class Number 3909) meets at these times and locations:

  • Tue 10:30am - 11:25am in Morton Hall Room 237
  • Mon, Wed, Fri 10:45am - 11:40am in Morton Hall Room 237

Syllabus: For Section 100 (Class Number 3909), this web page replaces the usual paper syllabus. If you need a paper syllabus (now or in the future), print this web page.

Textbook Information
Title:
Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences, 13 th Edition
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Authors:
Barnett, Ziegler, and Byleen
Publisher:
Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2014
ISBN-10:
0321869834
ISBN-13:
978-0321869838
Remark:
The ISBN numbers listed above are for a book without the access code for the "MyMathLab" website. MATH 1350 does not use the MyMathLab website, and books without access codes are substantially cheaper than those with access codes.
Course Packet Information
What is it?
a 62-page packet, spiral bound in a green cover, containing
  • Complete Set of 7 Reference Pages
  • Complete Set of 32 Class Drills
  • List of Suggested Homework Problems
  • Information about Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction (SI) on the Athens Campus
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Is it required?
It is required for students in Section 100 (Class Number 3039).
Where do you get it?
Minuteman Press, 17 W. Washington Street, Athens (next to Donkey Coffee), (740) 593-7393
Cost?
about $10, including tax
What do you ask for?
Tell them that you need the MATH 1350 Packet.

Calculators will not be allowed on exams.

Websites with Useful Math Utilities: In lectures, I often use a computer for graphing and calculating. The computer tools that I use are free online utilites that are easily accessible at the following link. ( Link to free online Math Utilities ) I use the same online utilities in my office, instead of a calculator. You are encouraged to use these same free online utilities instead of a calculator.

Student Resources (Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction (SI)): There are many math-related resources for students on the Athens Campus of Ohio University. For information, go to the following link. ( Link to tutoring and SI resources )

Special Needs: If you have physical, psychiatric, or learning disabilities that require accommodations, please let me know as soon as possible so that your needs may be appropriately met.

Attendance Policy: Attendance is required for all lectures and exams, and will be recorded using sign-in sheets.

Missing Class: If you miss a class for any reason, it is your responsibility to copy someone�s notes or download my notes from the course web page, and study them. I will not use office hours to teach topics discussed in class to students who were absent.

Missing a Quiz or Exam Because of Illness: If you are too sick to take a quiz or exam, then you must

  1. send me an e-mail before the quiz/exam, telling me that you are going to miss it because of illness, then
  2. then go to the Hudson Student Health Center.
  3. Later, you will need to bring me documentation from Hudson showing that you were treated there.
Without those three things, you will not be given a make-up.

Missing Quizzes or Exams Because of University Activity: If you have a University Activity that conflicts with one of our quizzes or exams, you must contact me before the quiz or exam to discuss arrangements for a make-up. I will need to see documentation of your activity. If you miss a quiz or an exam because of a University Activity without notifying me in advance, you will not be given a make-up.

Missing Quizzes or Exams Because of Personal Travel Plans: All of our quizzes and three of our four in-class exams are on Fridays. This includes the Friday before Spring Break. Our final exam is on Wednesday, April 27. Please don't bother asking me if you can make up a quiz or exam, or take it early, because your ride home is leaving earlier in the day, or because you already bought a plane ticket with an early departure time. The answer is, No you may not have a make-up or take the quiz or exam early. You will just have to change your travel plans or forfeit that quiz or exam.

Cheating on Quizzes or Exams: If cheat on a quiz or exam, you will receive a zero on that quiz or exam and I will submit a report to the Office of Community Standards and Student Responsibility (OCSSR). If you cheat on another quiz or exam, you will receive a grade of F in the course and I will again submit a report to the OCSSR.

Grading for Section 100 (Class Number 3909): During the semester, you will accumulate points as described in the table below.

Quizzes (best 8 of 10 quizzes, 20 points each): 160 points possible
In-Class Exams (best 3 of 4 exams, 200 points each): 600 points possible
Cumulative Final Exam: 240 points possible
Total: 1000 points possible

At the end of the semester, your Total will be converted to your Course Grade as described in the table below. (Note that there is no curve.)

Total Score
Percentage
Grade
Interpretation
900 - 1000
90% - 100%
A
You mastered all concepts, with no significant gaps
850 - 899
85% - 89.9%
A-
800 - 849
80% - 84.9%
B+
You mastered all essential concepts and many advanced concepts, but have some significant gaps.
750 - 799
75% -79.9%
B
700 - 749
70% - 74.9%
B-
650 - 699
65% - 69.9%
C+
You mastered most essential concepts and some advanced concepts, but have many significant gaps.
600 - 649
60% - 64.9%
C
550 - 599
55% - 59.9%
C-
500 - 549
50% - 54.9%
D+
You mastered some essential concepts.
450 - 499
45% - 49.9%
D
400 - 449
40% - 44.9%
D-
0 - 399
0% - 39.9%
F
You did not master essential concepts.

Note that although this grading scale may look easy compared to the usual 90,80,70,60 scale, it is actually not easier. The reasons are:

  • The letter grades in this course mean the same thing as the letter grades in other courses.
  • When I grade homework and exams, I give out fewer points. (In this course, if you do grade C work on a 20 point exam problem, you will get between 11, 12, or 13 points for the problem. That is in the range 55% - 69.9%. But in somebody else's course that uses the 90,80,70,60 scale, you would have gotten 14 or 15 points for the problem. That is in the range 70% - 79.9%.)
  • There is no curve.

The Learning Outcomes for this course can be found at the following link: ( Learning Outcomes )

Course Structure: One learns math primarily by trying to solve problems. This course is designed to provide structure for you as you learn to solve problems, and to test how well you have learned to solve them. This structure is provided in the following ways.

  • Suggested Exercises: In the course packet, you will find a table of suggested exercises. The list can also be found at the following link: ( list of suggested exercises ) The goal of the course is for you to be able to solve the exercises on this list. These exercises are not to be turned in and are not graded, but you should do as many of them as possible and keep your solutions in a notebook for study.
  • Textbook Readings: To succeed in the course, you will need to read the textbook, study the examples in it, and work on the "matched problems" that accompany the examples. Many of the examples are exactly like exercises on your suggested exercise list.
  • Lectures: In lecture, I will sometimes highlight textbook material that is particularly important, sometimes present material in a manner different from the presentation in the book, and sometimes solve sample problems. We have 51 lectures, totaling 2805 minutes. It is not possible to cover the entire content of the course in 2805 minutes, and the lectures are not meant to do that. Lectures are meant to be a supplement to your reading the textbook and solving problems.
  • Quizzes and Exams: The quizzes and exams are based on exercises from the list of suggested exercises and on Class Drills.

Calendar for 2016 - 2017 Fall Semester MATH 1350 Section 100 (Class Number 3909)

Week
Dates
Meeting
Number
Class topics
1
Mon Aug 22
through
Fri Aug 26
1
2.1 Intro to Limits: Graphical Approach ( Class Drill 1 ) ( Lecture Notes )
2
2.1 Intro to Limits: Analytical Approach ( Reference 2 ) ( Lecture Notes )
3
2.2 Infinite Limits; Vertical Asymptotes (Class Drills 2 , 3 ) ( Lecture Notes )
4
2.2 Limits at Infinity; Horizontal Asymptotes ( Lecture Notes )
(Quiz 1)
2
Mon Aug 29
through
Fri Sep 2
5
2.2 Limits Involving Infinity: More examples ( Lecture Notes )
6
2.3 Continuity ( Class Drill 4 ) ( Lecture Notes )
7
2.3 Determining the Sign of a Function on an Interval ( Lecture Notes )
8
2.4 Rates of Change ( Reference 3 ) ( Lecture Notes )
(Quiz 2)
3
Mon Sep 5
through
Fri Sep 9
Mon
Labor Day Holiday: No Class
9
2.4 The Derivative ( Reference 3 ) (Class Drills 5 , 6 ) ( Lecture Notes )
10
2.4 The Derivative ( Lecture Notes )
11
2.5 Constant Function Rule; Power Rule ( Lecture Notes )
(Quiz 3)
4
Mon Sep 13
through
Fri Sep 16
12
2.5 Sum Rule; Constant Multiple Rule (Class Drills 7 , 8 ) ( Lecture Notes )
13
2.7 Marginal Analysis in Business and Econ ( Reference 5 ) ( Lecture Notes )
14
2.7 Marginal Analysis in Business and Economics ( Lecture Notes )
15
In-Class Exam 1 on Chapter 2 ( Exam Info )
5
Mon Sep 19
through
Fri Sep 23
16
3.1 Simple Interest; Periodically Compounded Interest ( Lecture Notes )
17
3.1 The Constant e and Continuous Compound Interest ( Lecture Notes )
18
3.2 Derivatives of Exp. Functions ( Reference 4 ) ( Class Drill 9 ) ( Lecture Notes )
19
3.2 Derivatives of Log. Functions ( Reference 4 ) ( Class Drill 10 ) ( Lecture Notes )
(Quiz 4)
6
Mon Sep 26
through
Fri Sep 30
20
3.3 Derivatives of Products ( Reference 4 ) ( Lecture Notes )
21
3.3 Derivatives of Quotients ( Reference 4 ) ( Class Drill 11 ) ( Lecture Notes )
22
3.3 Derivatives of Quotients ( Reference 4 ) ( Lecture Notes )
23
3.4 The Chain Rule ( Reference 4 ) ( Lecture Notes )
(Quiz 5)
7
Mon Oct 3
through
Fri Oct 7
Mon
Fall Semester Reading Day: No Class
24
3.4 The Chain Rule ( Class Drill 12 ) ( Lecture Notes )
25
Rate of Change Problems (Class Drills 13a , 13b , 13c , 13d ) ( Lecture Notes )
26
In-Class Exam 2 on Chapter 3 and Rate of Change Class Drills ( Exam Info )
8
Mon Oct 10
through
Fri Oct 14
27
4.1 Horiz Tang Lines; Incr/Decr Funct. ( Reference 6 ) ( Class Drill 15 ) ( Lecture Notes )
28
4.1 Local Extrema & 1st Derivative Test (Class Drills 16 , 17 ) ( Lecture Notes )
29
4.1 More Examples of 1st Derivative Test ( Lecture Notes )
30
4.2 Concavity and 1st Derivative ( Reference 6 ) (Class Drills 18 , 19 ) ( Lecture Notes )
(Quiz 6)
9
Mon Oct 17
through
Fri Oct 21
31
4.2 Concavity and 2nd Derivative ( Reference 6 ) ( Lecture Notes )
32
4.2 Curve Sketching ( Reference 6 ) (Class Drills 20 , 21 ) ( Lecture Notes )
33
4.5 Absolute Max and Min; Closed Interval Method ( Lecture Notes )
34
4.5 Absolute Max and Min ( Class Drill 22 ) ( Lecture Notes )
(Quiz 7)
10
Mon Oct 24
through
Fri Oct 28
35
4.6 Optimization ( Lecture Notes )
36
4.6 Optimization ( Lecture Notes )
37
4.6 Optimization ( Class Drill 23 ) ( Lecture Notes )
38
In-Class Exam 3 on Chapter 4 ( Exam Info )
11
Mon Oct 31
through
Fri Nov 4
39
5.1 Antiderivatives, Indefinite Integrals ( Reference 4 ) ( Lecture Notes )
40
5.1 Antiderivatives, Indefinite Integrals ( Reference 4 ) ( Class Drill 24 ) ( Lecture Notes )
41
5.1 Antiderivatives, Indefinite Integrals ( Reference 4 ) ( Class Drill 25 ) ( Lecture Notes )
42
5.2 Integration by Substitution ( Reference 7 ) ( Class Drill 26 ) ( Lecture Notes )
(Quiz 8)
12
Mon Nov 7
through
Fri Nov 11
43
5.2 Integration by Substitution ( Reference 7 ) ( Class Drill 27 ) ( Lecture Notes )
44
5.2 Integration by Substitution ( Reference 7 ) ( Lecture Notes )
45
5.4 Approximating Areas by Left, Right Sums (Class Drills 28 , 29 ) ( Lecture Notes )
Fri
Veterans Day Holiday: No Class
13
Mon Nov 14
through
Fri Nov 18
46
5.4 The Definite Integral as a Limit of Sums ( Lecture Notes )
(Quiz 9)
47
5.5 Fundamental Theorem of Calculus ( Class Drill 30 ) ( Lecture Notes )
48
5.5 Total Change Problems ( Lecture Notes )
49
5.5 Average Value of Continuous Function over Closed Interval ( Lecture Notes )
14
Mon Nov 21
through
Fri Nov 25
50
In-Class Exam 4 on Chapter 5 ( Exam Info )
51
6.1 Area Between Curves ( Class Drill 31 ) ( Lecture Notes )
Wed
Thanksgiving Day Holiday: No Class
Fri
Columbus Day Holiday: No Class
15
Mon Nov 28
through
Fri Dec 2
52
6.1 Area Between Curves, Total Change ( Lecture Notes )
53
6.2 Total Income & Future Val. for Cont. Income Stream ( Lecture Notes )
54
6.2 Consumers' Surplus, Producers' Surplus ( Lecture Notes )
(Quiz 10)
55
6.2 Equilibrium Price ( Class Drill 32 ) ( Lecture Notes )
16
Mon Dec 5
56
Final Exam 10:10am - 12:10pm in Morton 237 ( Exam Info )


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