MATH 137

Getting Down to Work

Calculus

Fall 2009

MATH 137 is intended to deepen your understanding of calculus that you got from high school. We will treat the subject in signicantly greater depth, involving more care with denitions, more proofs of the results, more subtle examples, and a number of new topics. Calculus is sophisticated. In order to help you master it, we expect you to work diligently. Prerequisites You are supposed to be familiar with a variety of functions, including polynomial, rational, power, trigonometric, and exponential functions. You should know how to calculate an assortment of derivatives, interpret their geometric meaning and apply them in a number of situations. You need some skills at sketching the graphs of simple functions. As well, skill with algebraic manipulations and inequalities will help signicantly. UW-ACE The MATH 137 web page on UW-ACE contains a wealth of ongoing information about our course. In particular, there you will nd posted the weekly assignments and (after you have submitted them) their solutions, course announcements, and other useful items about MATH 137. To nd UW-ACE go to: uwace.uwaterloo.ca, or you can click on it from the Universitys home page. Textbook Calculus, Early Transcendentals, 6th Edition by James Stewart is the textbook for this course. The book, which can be bought at the campus bookstore, comes with a Students Solutions Manual for the odd numbered problems, as well as internet access to a homework package called Enhanced Web Assign, or EWA. Use of EWA is optional for this course, but some may prefer to take advantage of it. For details on how to access EWA check on UW-ACE. Stewart will also be used for your second calculus course, MATH 138. Assignments There will be an assignment to be submitted by 11 a.m. on most Fridays. These submitted assignments will contribute towards 15% of your nal grade. The rst assignment is due on September 25. In all there will be 9 assignments to hand in. The weekly assignments will be posted on UW-ACE. In addition to problems for submission, each assignment will have a list of recommended problems taken from Stewarts book. It is important to do a good job on your assignments, for this is how you will master the subject. Just as importantly, 1

be sure to work on the recommended problems. You can experiment doing some of these recommended problems using Stewarts EWA package on-line, but doing them by hand is good too. Without enough exposure to problems, a challenging subject such as calculus will not fall within your grasp. Of course, many of you will need help with the assignment problems from time to time. This help can come from TAs in the Faculty of Mathematics Tutorial Centre, your tutorial instructors, instructor ofce hours, and also from your fellow students. Before seeking help, make an honest effort to solve each question on your own. Also, on each assignment, acknowledge the help that you received. This acknowledgment will not affect your assignment grade. At times you may be tempted to blindly copy someone elses assignment solutions without any attempt to understand the material. Dont do it, for this is an act of academic cheating. Furthermore, plagiarism is a futile act that does nothing to help you learn the subject, and thereby violates the purpose of the assignment. It is also futile because it will have a negligible effect towards improving your nal mark. MAPLE labs On assignments 3, 5, 7 and 9 there will be, in addition to the usual exercises, a small laboratory project to carry out using the mathematical software MAPLE. The purpose of these MAPLE mini-projects is to familiarize you with this useful technology for doing mathematics, and to show you a bit of what it can do when a hand calculation is not enough. In order to carry out the MAPLE labs without undue frustration, it is essential to become familiar in advance with how MAPLE works. Assignment 3, containing the rst MAPLE lab will be due on October 9. In order to be prepared for the rst MAPLE project on Assignment 3, be sure you complete the MAPLE introduction and quiz well in advance of this due date. See the UW-ACE course pages for more information on the MAPLE labs. Tutorials In addition to your three weekly lectures, you are scheduled for a weekly tutorial hour. During your tutorial, your tutorial instructor will go over additional problems based on recently covered material, discuss items related to assignments and, if time permits, give you an opportunity to ask questions. The tutorials are valuable. Therefore attend them as faithfully as you would your lectures. Mid-term exam The mid-term exam for MATH 137 is scheduled for Monday, October 26 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

You will be informed of the mid-term exam room for your section in due course. Marks Homework This is how the marks will break down. Mid-Term Exam Final Exam Technological devices and exams 15% 25% 60%

From time to time the judicious use of electronic devices helps us to carry out complex calculations and to understand the subtleties of calculus better. However, their use during exams could subvert our capacity to decide how much calculus you will have learned. During exams the only permitted electronic device (not counting your simple watch) is a basic calculator. In particular, programmable and graphing calculators are prohibited in exam rooms. Also, barring an emergency, use of all external communication devices, such as mobile phones, is strictly prohibited during exams. Note for students with disabilities The Ofce for Persons with Disabilities (OPD), located in Needles Hall, Room 1132, collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities without compromising the academic integrity of the curriculum. If you require academic accommodations to lessen the impact of your disability, please register with the OPD at the beginning of each academic term. Avoidance of Academic Offenses Here is the University Policy regarding academic offences, i.e. cheating. In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of the University of Waterloo community are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. For more information check: www.uwaterloo.ca/academicintegrity/ A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity to avoid committing academic offenses and to take responsibility for his/her actions. A student who is unsure whether an action constitutes an offense, or who needs help in learning how to avoid offenses (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about rules for group work/collaboration should seek guidance from the course professor, academic advisor, or the undergraduate associate dean. For information on categories of offenses and types of penalties, students should refer to Policy 71, Student Discipline: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/Policies/policy71.html For typical penalties check the Guidelines for the Assessment of Penalties: 3

http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/guidelines/penaltyguidelines.htm A decision made or penalty imposed under Policy 71, Student Discipline may be appealed if there are grounds. A student who believes he/she has a ground for an appeal should refer to Policy 72, Student Appeals: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/Policies/policy72.htm Your MATH 137 instructors M.C. Eden MC 5102 mceden@uwaterloo.ca ext. 38510 A. Nica MC 5070 anica@math.uwaterloo.ca ext. 35570 J. Nissen MC 5192 jnissen@uwaterloo.ca ext. 38641 B.D. Park MC 5047 bdpark@math.uwaterloo.ca ext. 37016 S. Speziale MC 6209 sspeziale@math.uwaterloo.ca ext. 35094 M. Stastna MC 5123 mmstastn@math.uwaterloo.ca ext. 33529 C. Struthers STJ 1001 castruth@math.uwaterloo.ca ext. 35548 or ext. 28224 F. Zorzitto MC 5055 fazorzit@math.uwaterloo.ca ext. 5563 We are here to help you learn calculus. Take advantage of our expertise, and that of our tutorial instructors, by coming to class and to the tutorials regularly. Outline of Topics Functions, graphs, absolute values, one-to-one functions and inverses Exponential and trigonometric functions and their inverses Limits: formal denition, rules and examples Continuity and intermediate values Derivatives: denition, formulas, rules, and applications The chain rule, implicit differentiation, applications Extreme values, the mean value theorem Monotone functions and curve sketching LH pitals rule o Tangent lines, Newtons method Riemann integral, the fundamental theorem of calculus Area problems Error estimates for the linear approximation