Mathematics 1A, Fall 2004

Professor: Richard Borcherds (The other 1A classes are taught by Haiman and Tataru.)

Office hours: Tu Th 3:40-5:00 927 Evans Hall. (For quick questions ask me before or after class.)

Our class meets in 2050 VALLEY LSB, 2:00-3:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This is the course home page (address www.math.berkeley.edu/~reb/1A). If you take this course you are expected to attend lectures, enroll in and attend one of the discussion sections listed below, do the homework each week, and take the two midterms and the final.

If you wish to add or drop this course after telebears ends, here is the form and instructions. The deadline to add or drop without the dean's approval (which is rarely given) is 2004 October 22.

ControlSectionTime Place Instructor email
number
54303 001 T T 0200 0330 P 2050 VALLEY LS Borcherds, Richard reb
54306 101 M W F 0800 0900 A 0081 EVANS Brown, David brownda
54309 102 M W F 0800 0900 A 0385 LECONTE Kelley, James kelley
54312 103 M W F 0900 1000 A 0081 EVANS Brown, David brownda
54315 104 M W F 1000 1100 A 0002 EVANS Kelley, James kelley
54318 105 M W F 1100 1200 P 0310 HEARST MI Dorfman, Jonathan jdorfman
54321 106 M W F 1100 1200 P B0051 HILDEBRAN Snyder, Noah nsnyder
54324 107 M W F 1200 0100 P 0106 MOFFITT Bray, Nicolas bray
54327 108 M W F 1200 0100 P 0087 EVANS Dorfman, Jonathan jdorfman
54330 109 M W F 0100 0200 P 0081 EVANS Snyder, Noah nsnyder
54333 110 M W F 0100 0200 P 0004 EVANS Bray, Nicolas bray
54336 111 M W F 0200 0300 P B0051 HILDEBRAN Canon, S scanon
54339 112 M W F 0200 0300 P 0005 EVANS Okunev, Pavel pokunev
54342 113 M W F 0400 0500 P 3109 ETCHEVERR Okunev, Pavel pokunev
54345 114 M W F 1200 0100 P 0385 LECONTE Alappatta, Jomy jomy
54347 115 M W F 1000 1200 P 0230C STEPHENS Berbec, Ioan ioan
55869 116 M W F 1000 1200 P 0230C STEPHENS Somersille, Stephanie steph
55878 117 M W F 0900 1000 A 3107 ETCHEVERR Alappatta, Jomy jomy

To get the full email address, add @math.berkeley.edu

Catalogue Description: Mathematics 1A

Course Format: Three hours of lecture and three hours of discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Three and one-half years of high school math, including trigonometry and analytic geometry, plus a satisfactory grade in one of the following: CEEB MAT test, an AP test, the UC/CSU math diagnostic test, or 32. Consult the mathematics department for details. Students with AP credit should consider choosing a course more advanced than 1A.

Credit option: Students will receive no credit for 1A after taking 16B and 2 units after taking 16A.

Description: This sequence is intended for majors in engineering and the physical sciences. An introduction to differential and integral calculus of functions of one variable, with applications and an introduction to transcendental functions.

Textbook:

Stewart, Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 5th edition, Brooks/Cole. The ASUC textbook store sells a special edition of this for math 1A/1B for $60, and they will buy it back when you have finished for $30. (This special edition does not include the chapters for math 53, so if you intend to take math 53 later it may be better to buy the full textbook.) We will cover chapters 1-6. The 4th edition may have different exercises from the one we will use but is otherwise OK for the course.

Grading:

There will be a quiz given each week in the discussion sections. There will be no make-up quizzes.

The grading will probably be something like homework and quizzes 40%, midterms 15% each, and final 30% of the grade. The final grade is not based on a curve or on previously fixed marks for certain grades. Instead the grades for the course will be based on my judgment of how well the class is doing, and will be higher if everyone is working hard at the homework and doing well on the exams.

Almost all the questions in the midterms or finals will be similar to randomly selected homework questions from the book, possibly with the constants in the questions changed. So if you understand how to do all the homework questions you will be able to do all the questions on the exams. Each question on the exams will be worth 1 point; to get this one point you have to get the right answer and show the correct working. There will be no partial credit for incomplete or wrong answers on the exams.

I only change grades for exams or quizzes if there is a clear error on the part of the grader, such as adding up marks incorrectly or forgetting to grade a question. I will not increase grades just because someone needs a higher grade to graduate or get into some program.

The final homework and quiz grade will be computed from the grades for the 10 best homeworks and quizzes, so it does not matter much if you forget one or two. If you miss the first midterm the mark for the second midterm will be doubled. If you miss the second then the mark for the final will be increased by 50%. If you miss both midterms or the final then you are in trouble. There will be no makeup exams or quizzes.

Examinations:

You may bring one (ordinary sized) sheet of paper with writing on both sides to the exams. Apart from this one sheet, the exams are "closed book". In particular you may not bring textbooks or notebooks or calculators. (Some of the more expensive calculators can solve many calculus questions almost by themselves, which is unfair to students who cannot afford them.)

The first midterm is on Sep 30

The second midterm is on Nov 4 and is on the material covered since the first midterm.

The final is on Wed Dec 15, 12:30-3:30pm and is in the front half of 100 HAAS PAVILION (which seems to be a gymnasium), not the usual lecture room. It will be mostly on the material covered after the second midterm, though there will be some problems on earlier material.

Homework:

Homework is due by the end of the Monday discussion section of the next week (or by Wednesday if Monday is a holiday). Late homework will not be accepted. The grade for homework will be based just on the number of questions attempted, as Berkeley does not at the moment have money to pay for homework grading. Collaboration on homework is fine, but if you hand in similar homework to your collaborator you should clearly state so and say who you are working with, in order to avoid unfortunate misunderstandings.

Incomplete grades

Incomplete "I" grades are almost never given. The only justification is a documented serious medical problem or genuine personal/family emergency. Falling behind in this course or problems with workload on other courses are not acceptable reasons.

Special arrangements.

If you are a student with a disability registered by the Disabled Student Services (DSS) on UCB campus and if you require special arrangements during exams, you must provide me with the DSS document and you must contact me via email or office hours at least 10 days prior to each exam, explaining your circumstances and what special arrangements need to be done. If you do not contact me 10 days in advance then I will not have time to make arrangements and you will have to take the exam along with everyone else and under the regular conditions provided for the class.

Reading and Homework Schedule

Most questions have answers in the back of the book, and many (the ones in red in the book) have hints on one of the CD's.

Lecture Date Reading Exercises (Due in discussion section the next Monday)
01-02 Aug 31, Sep 2 1.1-1.6 1.1: 1, 5, 7, 15, 17, 25, 29, 39, 41. 1.2: 3, 11, 13. 1.3: 3, 5, 23, 29. 1.5: 1, 17, 20. 1.6: 5, 7, 21, 23, 27, 31, 35.
03-04 Sep 7-9 2.1-2.4 2.1: 1, 3, 5, 7. 2.2: 7, 9, 13, 15, 25, 35. 2.3: 7, 11, 19, 25, 27, 31bc, 41, 49. 2.4: 1, 3, 5, 13, 15, 23.
05-06 Sep 14-16 2.5-2.8 2.5: 3, 5, 37, 41, 43, 45, 47, 51. 2.6: 3, 7, 11, 17, 19, 27, 52, 61. 2.7: 1, 5ab, 9, 11. 2.8: 3, 5, 7, 9a, 15, 23.
07-08 Sep 21-23 2.9, 3.1-3.3 2.9: 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 27, 29, 37, 45. 3.1: 11, 15, 17, 23, 25, 31, 41, 45, 55. 3.2: 1, 3, 5, 11, 21, 31, 41.
09 Sep 28 3.4, 3.5 3.4: 3, 9, 15, 23, 29, 37, 43, 45, 47. 3.5: 1, 5, 7, 9, 19, 23, 33, 37, 39, 45, 51, 57, 61
10 Sep 30 Midterm1: Covers 1.1 to 3.3. Solutions. Practice midterm.
11-12 Oct 5-7 3.6-3.9 3.6: 5, 9, 15, 21, 25, 27, 29, 35, 41, 43, 47, 49 3.7: 1, 3, 7, 11, 23, 35, 39, 47. 3.8: 3, 5, 11, 13, 28, 31, 41, 43, 47. 3.9: 31, 33, 41.
13-14 Oct 12-14 3.11, 4.1 3.11: 1, 7, 9, 19, 21, 25, 31, 39, 41, 49. 4.1: 3, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, 31, 35, 41, 43, 49.
15-16 Oct 19-21 4.2, 4.3 4.2: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 31, 33. 4.3: 1, 5, 7, 11, 13, 19, 21, 31, 33, 37, 41.
17-18 Oct 26-28 4.4-4.6 4.4: 5, 9, 11, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 53. 4.5: 9, 11, 13, 29, 59, 61, 63. 4.6: 13, 23.
19 Nov 2 4.7, 4,9 4.7: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 25, 31, 39, 51. 4.9: 1, 3, 5, 11, 13, 31, 37.
20 Nov 4 Midterm2: Covers 3.4-4.6 Practice midterm.
21-22 Nov 9 4.10 4.10: 3, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 27, 35, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 59, 67, 73, 75, 77.
Nov 11 Holiday
23-24 Nov 16-18 5.1, 5.2 5.1: 1, 3, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21 5.2: 1, 5, 7, 9, 17, 19, 23, 33, 37, 39, 47, 49, 53, 55, 61.
25-26 Nov 23 5.3, 5.4 5.3: 3, 9, 11, 13, 21, 25, 29, 31, 39, 41, 49, 51, 59, 61, 67. 5.4: 1, 3, 19, 27, 37, 39, 43, 47, 53, 55, 57.
Nov 25 Holiday
27-28 Nov 30, Dec 2 5.5, 5.6 5.5: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 21, 27, 31, 37, 41, 51, 57, 65, 71, 75, 79, 83. 5.6: 1, 3, 5
29-30 Dec 7-9 6.1-6.3, 6.5 6.1: 1, 3, 9, 11, 19, 25, 41, 47 6.2: 1, 3, 9, 11, 13, 17, 31, 47, 49, 61, 65. 6.3: 3, 5, 46 6.5: 1, 3, 5, 7.
Dec 15, 12:30-3:30pm 100 HAAS PAVILION Final Exam: Covers everything, but mostly 4.7-6.5. Practice Final

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