MATH 150

MATH 150, FALL 2009, Calculus A

INFORMATION SESSION
For students who are interested in Honours Mathematics/joint Honours Mathematics and Physics programs.
The information session will be run by Ilya Feige (math-phys) and Dana Mendelson (math), and held on Wed, Dec 16, 12:15--13:30, in BURN 920.
The department will provide pizza and drinks.
Before joining any of the above programs, it is strongly recommended that you meet with respective academic advisors.
If you are interested in other programs (minor/major in mathematics/statistics), you should schedule an appointment with the chief advisor Dr. Armel Kelome, kelome at math.mcgill.ca

FINAL EXAM
You should be able to state precisely all the results discussed in class. You will not be tested on the derivations done in class.
You will not be tested on Sequences and Series (Chapter 11).
The Practice Final Exam pdf file Solutions pdf file
It is very important that you work out independently the practice final exam.
Please note that all questions require justification.
No marks will be given for correct answers without proper justification.

THE LAST WEEK OF CLASSES AND THE STUDY WEEK
There will be no tutorials the last week of classes. The Help Desk is closed starting Mon, Nov 30.
Your TA's will hold their regular office hours during the week Nov 30--Dec 4.
In addition, James Leahy will be available in his office (BURN 1018) to answer your questions on the following dates:
Tuesday 2-4PM Thursday 12-1:30PM Friday 11-12:30PM Sunday 5-8 PM
I will hold the review seesions on Monday Nov 30 (BURN 1B24, 19:00), Friday, Dec 4 (MAASS 10, 11:00-13:00) and Tuesday, Dec 8 (MAASS 10, 14:00--16:00).
The goal of the first two review sessions is to help you with the material in Chapter 11 and the bonus webwork.
The Tuesday review session will concern the final exam.
The Practice Final exam will be posted on Dec 4 in the afternoon.
On Mon Dec 7 your TA's will be available to answer your questions from 12:30--14:30 in BURN 920.
On Wed Dec 9 your TA's will be available to answer your questions from 11:30--15:30 in BURN 920.

QUIZZES AND THE MIDTERM
Midterm exam Solutions
Quiz 1: Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4 Sec 5 Sec 6
Quiz 2: Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4 Sec 5 Sec 6
Quiz 3: Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4 Sec 5 Sec 6
Quiz 4: Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4 Sec 5 Sec 6

QUIZ 4
The fourth quiz will be held during the week Nov 16-20 at the tutorial.
The quiz will be adminstrated at the beginning of the tutorial and its duration is 30 min.
You are expected to write the quiz in the tutorial section in which you are registered.
The quiz is obligatory
The tutorial session following the quiz is also obligatory
The third quiz concerns the material in Sections 14.1--14.6.
Specifically, you will be tested on equations of tangent planes, chain rule, implicit differentiation, directional derivatives and gradients.
As a preparation for the quiz (and the final exam) you should solve as many problems as possible in Sections 14.1--14.6.
Suggested problems: Page 899, 1--6, Page 907-908, 1--35, 43, Page 920--921, 7--17, 21--26, 32, 39--44, Page 946, 45--48.

REVIEW SESSIONS
Until the end of the course I will be runing optional review sessions every Monday, 19:00--20:30, in BURN 1B24.

NEW: BONUS WEBWORK 5
The Webwork 5 is worth 5 points and your score on this webwork will be added as a bonus to your total score for the course
(for example, if your total score is 64/100 and you get 3/5 on the Webwork 5, your total score will be 67/100).
Webwork 5 concerns the material we will cover in the last few weeks of the course.

MIDTERM EXAM
The midterm exam will be held on November 5th, 18:30--20:30, in MAASS 112.
Please do not forget your student ID card.
The midterm concerns the material in Chapters 1-4 covered in class.
This material is essentially equivalent to MATH 140 course and you may consult the previous final exams for MATH 140 MATH 140 exams
The Practice Midterm Exam pdf file
You should be able to state precisely all the results discussed in class. You will not be tested on the derivations done in class.
Review session will be held on TUESDAY , November 3, 19:00--20:30, in BURN 1B24.

Third Quiz.
The third quiz will be held during the week Oct 26-30 at the tutorial.
The quiz will be adminstrated at the beginning of the tutorial and its duration is 30 min.
You are expected to write the quiz in the tutorial section in which you are registered.
The quiz is obligatory
The tutorial session following the quiz is also obligatory
Review sessions for Quiz 3 will be held on Monday, October 19th, and Monday, October 26th, in BURN 1B24, 19:00--20:30.
The third quiz concerns the material in Chapter 4 and you should work out the exercises in Sections 4.1-4.5.
The quiz will have an optimization problem.
This problem will be chosen from the Exercises 11-19, 21-29, 31-33 on the pages 328 and 329 of the textbook.
You should be able to state precisely all the results discussed in class (for example, Concavity Test, the Mean Value Theorem, ...). See the Concept Check exercises 1-7 on the page 347.
On this quiz you will not be tested on the derivations done in class.

Second Quiz.
The second quiz will be held during the week Oct 5-9 at the tutorial.
The quiz will be adminstrated at the beginning of the tutorial and its duration is 30 min.
You are expected to write the quiz in the tutorial section in which you are registered.
The quiz is obligatory
The tutorial session following the quiz is also obligatory
Review session for Quiz 2 will be held on Monday, October 5th, in BURN 1B24, 19:00--20:30.
There will be three questions on the quiz. All questions are chosen from the Exercises in Sections 3.5 and 3.6 (pages 213-215 and 220)
As a preparation for the quiz, you should work out as many as possible of those exercises.

First Quiz.
The first quiz will be held during the week Sep 21-25 at the tutorial.
The quiz will be adminstrated at the beginning of the tutorial and its duration is 30 min.
You are expected to write the quiz in the tutorial section in which you are registered.
You are responsible for the material covered up to and including Friday, Sep 18.
You will not be tested on the epsilon-delta material. You are responsible for all other definitions and derivations done in class.
Practice problems for Quiz 1: pdf file
Review session for Quiz 1 will be held on Monday, Sep 21, in MAASS 217, 17:00--18:30.
This review session is optional but if you have found the practice problems and the
course challenging, you are strongly encouraged to attend.

Instructor: Vojkan Jaksic, BURN 1222, 398-3827, jaksic at math.mcgill.ca

Office hours: Monday, Wednesday, 10:30--11:30, or by appointment

About the course : Students with no prior exposure to vector geometry are advised to take MATH 133 concurrently.
This course is intended for students with high school calculus who have not received six advanced placement credits.
This course is not open to the students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent.
This course is not open to the students who have taken or are taking MATH 122/130/131, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
MATH 150 and MATH 151 cover the material of MATH 139+140+141 and MATH 222.

Tutorials:
Every student must be registered in a tutorial section. Tutorials begin on Week 2 and end on Week 13.
The tutorials are an integral and important part of this course. Attendance is mandatory.

Tutorial sections and teaching assistants
Section 002, Tu 14:35-16:25, Leahy James, leahy at math.mcgill.ca
Section 003, Th 12:05-13:55, Mehrabian Amaan, Mehrabian at math.mcgill.ca
Section 004, Th 14:35-16:25, Wong Michael, wong at math.mcgill.ca
Section 005, W 15:35-17:25 Fiori Andrew
Section 006, Th 14:35-16:25 Tomberg Arthur, tomberg at math.mcgill.ca

Web page : www.math.mcgill.ca/jaksic/MATH150.html
Course documents will be posted there along with the announcements so you are urged to consult the site regularly.
Marks will be posted on WebCT.

Text: Calculus, by James Stewart (sixth edition)

Content: Chapter 2, Limits and Derivative. Chapter 3, Differentiation rules. Chapter 4, Applications of differentiations. Quick review of Chapter 12, Vectors and Geometry of Space--you are expected to have prior exposure to this material. Chapter 14, Partial derivatives. Chapter 11, Infinite sequences and series, Section 11.1--11.6.
For the detailed syllabus please consult the course web site.

Quizzes: There will be four 30 minutes long quizzes administrated at the tutorials in Weeks 4, 6, 9 and 12. They will be graded and returned to you.
You are expected to write quizzes in the tutorial section in which you are registered.
The three best quiezzes will count 15% towards your final mark.
Missed quizzes cannot be rescheduled. See the markig scheme.

Midterm exam: There will be a two hour midterm exam during Week 10.
The exact date and classroom midterm will be announced in advance during the semester.
The midterm will count 20% towards your final mark.
Missed midterm cannot be rescheduled. See the marking scheme.

WeBWorK assignments: These assignments will be available on the Web and will be answered on the Web. Your WebWorK assignments are at http://msr02.math.mcgill.ca/webwork2/MATH150_FALL2009/. The initial login/password is your 9 digit student number. Please CHANGE your password the first time you log in. You are advised to attempt Assignment 0. This assignment is not for a credit, but it will help you to become familiar with the WebWork system.
There will be five WebWork assignments. The due dates for the first two assignments are Sep 13 and Sep 20, for the others please consult the course web page. Please note that all WebWork assignments are due on specific Sundays at 23:30. The system will not accept late assignemnts.
The WeBWorK assignments are worth 15% of your grade.

Marking scheme: Maximum of the following: Webwork 15%, Quizzes 15%, Midterm 20%, Final 50% OR Quizzes 15%, Midterm 20%, Final 65% OR Webwork 15%, Final 85% OR Final 100%.

In the event of extraordinary circumstances beyond the University's control, the content and/or evaluation scheme of this course is subject to change.

Supplemental: There will be a supplemental exam, counting 100% of the supplemental grade. No additional work will be accepted for D, F, or J.

Academic integrity : McGill University values academic integrity.
Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating,
plagiarism and other academic offences under the code of student contact and
disciplinary procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information).

In accord with McGill University Charter of Students' Rights, students in this course
have the right to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded.

Help Desk: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/students/undergrad/help_desk You are strongly encouraged to make use of this resource.