Math 251
(CRN 24913)
Class
Times, Days, and Place: 1:00-1:50pm MTWF,306 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_WIN2014/251.htm
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 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 and due date 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
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. For each exam (including quizzes), you can bring a 3x5 inch note 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. The times of the midterms and final exam are specified and can't be changed. There is no make-up exams.
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 homeworks 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 Jan. 2, 2014)
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Week |
Sections |
Remarks and
topics |
Homework |
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Week 1: 1/6--1/10 |
2.1--2.5 |
Introduction, pre-req. test, review precalculus, Calculating limits using the limit laws, continuity, |
Read Chapter
1 and Section 2.1-- 2.6 |
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Week2: 1/13--1/17 |
2.5; 2.6 |
Limit involving
infinity |
The following HW questions are due on 1/17 Sect 2.4 : 10, 11, 34, 35, 37, 55 Read Section 2.7, 3.1 |
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Week3: 1/20--1/24 |
2.7—3.1; |
No class on Jan 20, Monday (Martin Luther
King holiday) |
The following HW questions are due on 1/24 |
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Week4: 1/27--1/31 |
3.2; 3.3 |
Midterm Exam 1 on Tuesday |
The following HW questions are due on 1/31
Sect 2.8 :
4, 9, 12, 14, 22, 28, 31 |
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Week5: 2/3-2/7 |
3.4; 3.5 |
The Chain Rule, examples of Implicit Differentiation, Examples of Implicit Differentiation |
The following HW questions are due on 2/7 |
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Week 6: 2/10--2/14 |
3.7; 3.9; 4.1 |
Derivatives of logarithmic functions, Linear approximation and
differentials, related rates |
The following HW questions are due on 2/14 Sect 3.4: 1, 2, 4, 7, 31, 37,
52, 70, 71, 74, 91 |
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Week7: 2/17--2/21 |
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 2/21 |
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Week8: 2/24--2/28 |
4.5; 4.6 |
Midterm Exam 2 on Tuesday Indeterminate Forms and L'Hospital's
Rule |
The following HW question are due on 2/28 Sect 4.2: 5, 8, 11, 23, 28, 29, 36, 41, 43, 47, 51,
62, 65 |
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Week9: 3/3--3/7 |
4.6; 4.7 |
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The following HW questions are due on 3/7 Sect 4.5: 2, 4, 6, 12, 16, 61, 65 ,66, 67, 75 |
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Week10: 3/10--3/14 |
Review |
Examples and |
The following questions are due on 3/14 |
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Office hour after March 14: 1:00pm – 2:00pm, March 18, 2014 |
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Final Exam: |
(1)
When:
6:00pm-8:00pm, March 18 (Tuesday), 2014. Where:102 DEA (2)
You
need to bring your UO ID. (3) You can bring a 3X5 index card. But no
calculator. (4) For students who have a final conflicting with ours in a smaller course than ours, We will have a conflict exam proctored in Fenton 117 between 3:45pm and 5:45pm on Tuesday 3/18. |
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