Mathematics 1A, Fall 2004

Final exam info:

Office hours: Tue. Dec. 14, 21 and Thu. Dec. 16, mornings 9-12
Time: Dec 21, 12:30-3:30 pm.
Location: 220 Hearst Gym
Sample exam: samplefinal.pdf


Professor: Daniel Tataru

Office hours: Tu Th 1:30-3:00 841 Evans Hall

Our class meets in 155 DWINELLE 3:30-5:00 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This is the course home page (address www.math.berkeley.edu/~tataru/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.

The Head TA is no longer available, all enrollment questions should be addressed to me.

Control Section Time Place Instructor
number
54393 003 T T 0330 0500 P 2050 155 DWINELLE Tataru, Daniel
54396 301 M W F 0800 0900 A 0075 EVANS Hill, C
54399 302 M W F 0800 0900 A 0007 EVANS Dore, R
54402 303 M W F 0900 1000 A 0385 LECONTE Hill, C
54405 304 M W F 1000 1100 A 0047 EVANS Carter, E
54408 305 M W F 1100 1200 P 0004 EVANS Carter, E
54411 306 M W F 1200 0100 P 0007 EVANS Varilly, A
54414 307 M W F 0100 0200 P 0007 EVANS Varilly, A
54417 308 M W F 0100 0200 P 0087 EVANS Zhu Jiang
54420 309 M W F 0800 0900 A 0047 EVANS CLOSED
54423 310 M W F 0200 0300 P 0246 DWINELLE Zhu Jiang
54426 311 M W F 0300 0400 P 0065 EVANS Dore, R
54429 312 M W F 0900 1000 A 0070 EVANS

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. We will cover chapters 1-6.

You will also use the Math 1A Worksheets in the sections. These are available at Copy Center, 2560 Bancroft Way

Grading:

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

You will receive four letter grades, one for each of the following: homework and quizzes, the two midterms and the final exam. The final grade will be the (rounded) average of these grades, with the homework and quizzes and the final exam counting double. These grades are roughly based on a curve, with possible small adjustments based on my judgment of how well the class is doing.

Most of the questions in the midterms or finals will be similar to randomly selected homework questions from the book, possibly with minor changes. So if you understand how to do all the homework questions you will be able to do very well on the exams.

Grades for exams or quizzes can only be changed if there is a clear error on the part of the grader, such as adding up marks incorrectly or forgetting to grade a question.

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 grade for the second midterm will count double. If you miss the second then the grade for the final will count for 50% more. If you miss both midterms or the final then you have likely failed the class. There will be no makeup exams or quizzes.

Examinations:

All the exams are "closed book". In particular you may not bring textbooks or notebooks or calculators.

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 Tuesday December 21, 12:30-3:30pm. It will be mostly on the material covered after the second midterm, though there will be some problems on earlier material. As chance would have it, this is the last scheduled exam time. There is no way you can take the exam sooner, even if you badly need to book an earlier flight.

Homework:

Homework is due by the end of the Monday discussion section of the next week. 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 you will have to take the exam along with everyone else and under the regular conditions provided for the class. No exceptions will be made.

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. Here is a sample 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 3.10, 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, 4.8 4.7: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 25, 31, 39, 51. 4.8: 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 23.
20 Nov 4 --- Midterm2: Covers 3.4-4.6 Here is a sample midterm
21-22 Nov 9 4.9, 4.10 4.9: 1, 3, 5, 11, 13, 31, 37. 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 21 12:30-3:30pm Final Exam: Covers the whole course, but is mostly on 4.7-6.5.

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