Math 251 (Phillips)

Summary of updates:

• 22 March 2008:
  • The final exams and their solutions have been posted.
  • A corrrection to the solutions to the 11:00 am Midterm 2 has been posted. See the Midterm 2 page for details.
• 21 March 2008:
  • The direct links to the final exam solutions no longer work; go to the final exam page instead.
  • Remember that extra credit can still be earned by catching errors; deadline midnight Saturday. The solutions to the Friday exam in particular have not been proofread as well as they should have been.
• 17 March 2008: Some additional sample final questions and their solutions have been posted. Complete information is here.
• 16 March 2008:
  • Solutions to Week 10 written homework have been posted.
  • Review sessions: Monday 17 March and Wednesday 19 March, 5:30 pm, 307 Deady. We will go elsewhere if the room turns out to have been reserved.
  • Finals week office hours: Tuesday 18 March and Thursday 20 March, 9--11 am, or by appointment.
• 13 March 2008:
  • Midterm 2 and its solutions (for both sections) have been posted.
  • A worksheet, with worked solutions, of extra differentiation problems.
• 11 March 2008: A detailed solution to Problem 2 on the Week 9 WebAssign homework has been posted. The pdf version is here.
• Earlier updates.

Course information:

• Course number: Math 251.
• Course title: Calculus 1.
• Two sections, both in 307 Deady. CRN 23096: MTuWF 8:00--8:50 am; CRN 23098: MTuWF 11:00--11:50 am.
• Instructor: N. Christopher Phillips.
• The course will be taught by substitutes on W 16 January, F 18 January, and the week of 28 January--1 February.
• Office: 105 Deady. Please knock. I can't leave my door open, because if I do I get too many people asking to borrow my telephone or pencil sharpener, or where to find the math department office or nonexistent rooms (such as 350 Deady).
• Office hours: MTu 9:00--9:50 pm, W 1:00--1:50 pm, or by appointment.
• Email. When emailing me, please use plain text (7 bit ASCII) only. That is, only the characters found on a standard English language keyboard; no curved quotation marks, curved apostrophes, accented letters, etc. In particular:
  • No html encoded (web page format, or "styled") messages. See "Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text" for how to turn off html.
  • No binary files or attachments (except by prior arrangement).
  • No Microsoft Word files. I do not accept these under any circumstances, since I don't have software that reads them.
  • No mime encoding or other encoding of ordinary text messages.
• Textbook: Stewart, Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 6th edition.
• Course information and syllabus.
• Course schedule:
  • Midterm 0: Friday 11 January; repeatable Friday 18 January.
  • Midterm 1 review session: Wednesday 30 Jan. 8:00--10:00 pm (subject to change), room TBA.
  • Midterm 1: Friday 1 February, in class.
  • Midterm 2 review session: Wednesday 27 February 8:00--10:00 pm, room TBA.
  • Midterm 2: Friday 29 February, in class.
  • Final review session: Monday 17 March, 8:00--10:00 pm, room TBA.
  • Finals week office hours: To be announced.
  • Final Exams: For the 8:00 am section, Wednesday 19 March, 10:15 am--12:15 pm, room 307 Deady. For the 11:00 am section, Friday 21 March, 10:15 am--12:15 pm, room 307 Deady. No early final exams, according to University rules.
• Extra credit will be given for identifying errors and misprints in any course materials, with more extra credit for mathematical errors. (You must say what the correct version is supposed to be, and only the first two people to catch an error can get extra credit.)
• WebAssign information: To get started, go to Blackboard, choose the course, click on "Course Tools" (on left), then click on "WebAssign" at the bottom. Unless your book already came with one, you will eventually need to buy an access code, either from the bookstore or online (maybe cheaper). Be sure to get the "Enhanced" version.

  Full instructions for WebAssign. Not all this is relevant. In particular, in Section 5 you only need 5.9, 5.11, and 5.13; in Section 6 you only need 6.1 and 6.4. None of the features in Sections 7 and 8 are enabled, although "Forums" could be. To ask me questions, email me directly. In Section 9, the Safari browser also seems to work fine. Some warnings:

  • WebAssign requires JavaScript. If you care about browser security, and especially if you are using Internet Explorer, be sure to turn off JavaScript after each session.
  • Generically, use "NONE" for things that don't exist (such as some limits) or questions that are not applicable (such as if the question asks if the function is linear and, if so, what the slope is, but the function isn't linear).
  • For infinity or minus infinity, use "INFINITY" and "-INFINITY".
  • Variables are case sensitive.
  • Use exp (1) for the number e, and exp (x) for e^x.
  • Use the link for symbolic formatting help if needed.
  • Some questions will allow many attempts, some very few. To check, click on "Show Details".
  • Be sure to log out of WebAssign after use!
  • No features of BlackBoard will be used other than its link to WebAssign.

Important dates, according to the registrar's office:

• Su 6 January: Last day to process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded).
• Su 13 January: Last day to drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded).
• Su 13 January: Last day to process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded).
• M 14 January: Last day to drop this course (75% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded).
• M 14 January: Last day to process a complete drop (75% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded).
• W 16 January: Last day to add this course.
• W 16 January: Last day to change to or from audit.
• Su 20 January: Last day to withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded).
• M 21 January: No classes.
• Su 27 January: Last day to withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded).
• Su 3 February: Last day to withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded).
• Su 24 February: Last day to withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded).
• Su 24 February: Last day to change grading option for this course.

Here is a list of publicly available documents associated with this course. The material is arranged in approximate chronological order: most recent items at the bottom. The links to exams and their solutions will not work until after the exam has been given, and the links to sample exams and their solutions will not work until these items have been prepared.

Most files will be pdf, although other formats will be posted on request: Postscript (if available), dvi, and LaTeX or AMSLaTeX source code. See the comments on the different formats for more information; please read this even if you only care about pdf. One warning is important enough to give here: In the fall quarter 1998, somebody printed some of my pdf files somewhere on campus and found that certain mathematical symbols (such as minus signs in exponents) did not print, damaging the meanings.

• Previous course information: selected items from the last time I taught this course.
• Spam (unsolicited commercial email) from a representative of the company that publishes the textbook.
• Course information and syllabus.
• Sample Midterm 0 and its solutions.
• Week 1 homework and partial solutions.
• Midterm 0 Version 1 and its solutions.
• Week 2 homework.
• Midterm 0 Version 2 and its solutions.
• Week 3 homework.
• Week 4 homework.
• Sample questions for Midterm 1.
• Midterm 1 and its solutions (for both sections).
• Midterm 1 retake for 11:00 section, and its solutions (made necessary by the page order error in the original).
• Midterm 1 home version (for making up points), and its solutions. (See instructions.)
• Week 5 homework.
• Week 6 homework.
• Week 7 homework.
• Week 8 homework.
• Sample questions for Midterm 2.
• Point recovery instructions for Midterm 2: pdf and AMSLaTeX.
• Midterm 2 and its solutions (for both sections).
• Week 9 homework.
• Week 10 homework.
• A worksheet, with worked solutions, of extra differentiation problems.
• Sample questions for the final exam and their solutions.
• Final exams for both sections, and their solutions.

This page maintained by N. Christopher Phillips, email. Please email plain text (7 bit ASCII) only (no web page coded files, Microsoft Word documents, binary characters, etc.; see above for more).

Last significant change 14 January 2008.