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This document is a course syllabus for a summer calculus course. It provides information on class times and location, the instructor's contact information, required textbook, topics to be covered, homework assignments, exam dates and grading policy. The course is designed for math, science and engineering majors and will cover limits, differentiation, integration and their applications. Students are expected to spend 30 hours per week on coursework, including 10 hours of class and 20 hours on homework and studying.

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Syllabus Math1550 04 Harhad

This document is a course syllabus for a summer calculus course. It provides information on class times and location, the instructor's contact information, required textbook, topics to be covered, homework assignments, exam dates and grading policy. The course is designed for math, science and engineering majors and will cover limits, differentiation, integration and their applications. Students are expected to spend 30 hours per week on coursework, including 10 hours of class and 20 hours on homework and studying.

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Course Syllabus Summer 2019

Math 1550-4 Analytic Geometry and Calculus1

Instructor: A. Harhad
Class Location: Lockett Hall 277
Class Times: 12:10 pm -2:10 PM. MTWThF.
Office Location and Phone number: 104 Lockett 104, 578-5333
Office Hours: 2:20 PM– 4:00 PM Friday (at 104 Lockett Hall)
11:40 AM– 12:00 PM Monday-Wednesday-Friday (at 104 Lockett Hall)
By appointment (At a mutually convenient time)

E-mail address: [email protected]

Text: Early Transcendentals, 8th edition by James Stewart, with Enhanced

Web Assign (EWA)

Coverage:
Chapter 2 (Sections 2.1-2.8 )
Chapter 3 (Sections 3.1-3.10)
Chapter 4 (Sections 4.1-4.9)
Chapter 5 (Sections 5.1-5.5)
Chapter 6 (Sections 6.1-6.5)
Chapter 8 (Sections 8.1-8.2)

Web Assign: We will be using Web Assign to do online homework. If you have already
purchased a Webassign code for calculus in a prior semester. You re-use that code with no
additional purchase if it is a multi-term “Lifetime edition” code for the 8 th edition of Stewart’s
Calculus textbook. If you do not have an access code and need to purchase one. LSU has
negotiated a special discount for Web Assign access code in calculus that is available at this site :
http://www.cengagebrain.com/course/3383356. It is 92.50$ for a multi-term access code alone,
or 103$ for a multi-term access code plus loose-leaf pages of the textbook. Since the access code
provides the online e-book, the physical pages of the textbook are not necessary unless you
prefer reading from paper instead from screen.

Create a Webassign account by going to www.webassign.net and click on the link labelled
“Enter class key” The key for math 1550-SECTION 4 is: lsu 5153 5937

In the field that asks for your student ID, enter your ID number (89………) without any hyphens
or spaces. The student ID number is needed to transfer your scores into moodle gradebook. You
can create your account and get started on the homework assignments without an access code
during the first two weeks of the term. The website will prompt you to enter an access code
before the two week period expires.
Course Description

This is a five-hour first calculus course designed for math, science and engineering majors and
certain other technical majors. It satisfies five hours of the General Analytical Reasoning
requirement because it includes the following area learning objective: “LSU graduates employ
scientific and mathematical models in the resolution of laboratory and real-world problems”

As a 5-credit summer course, students are expected to meet in class for 10 hours per week and
have 20 hours per week outside of class for studying for homework, for a total time obligation 30
hours per week.

ALEKS Course Prerequisite:

Graded Work:
There will be 3 in-class exams 60% (20% each)
The lowest test score will be replaced by the final exam score if higher
Web Work assignments 10%
Comprehensive Final Exam 30%

Exam Schedule (Tentative)


Test 1: Friday June 14 (covering sections: 2.1-2.8; 3.1-3.2)
Test 2: Wednesday July 03 (covering sections: 3.3-3.10; 4.1-4-3)
Test 3: Friday July 15 (covering sections: 4.4-5.5)

Comprehensive Final Exam: Thursday, July 25, 2018 from 10am-Noon (in our usual
classroom)
There will be no early final exam exceptions.
Grading Scale:

Calculators and collaboration:

Make up exams: A make up exam may be given to students who have valid excuses.
A documentation justifying the reason you missed the test is required.

Basic skills the students should acquire during the course

1. Limits and Continuity


a. Evaluate limits from a graph
b. Evaluate limits at points of continuity
c. Evaluate limits of indeterminate forms using algebraic simplifications and l’Hôpital’s rule
d. Know what continuity implies about a graph and behavior of a function
e. Determine points of discontinuity for functions defined as formulas or graphs
2. Differentiation
a. Know the various interpretations of the derivative (velocity, rate of change, slope of tangent line)
b. Evaluate the derivatives of simple functions using a difference quotient
c. Evaluate the derivatives of combinations of the basic elementary functions
d. Take the derivative using implicit and logarithmic differentiation
e. Find tangent lines and be able to use them as linear approximations
f. Find critical values, local extrema and the intervals of concavity for differentiable functions
g. Find absolute extrema of constrained functions
h. Solve problems involving related rates
i. Solve basic optimization problems
j. Understand the Mean Value Theorem for Derivatives
3. Integration
a. Understand anti-derivatives and know the basic anti-derivative formulas
b. Have an understanding of the Riemann Integral as a limit of Riemann sums
c. Be able to use both parts of the Fundamental Theorem
d. Evaluate definite integrals using substitution
e. Find the area between two curves and the volumes of solids of revolution
f. Find arc lengths and areas of surfaces of revolution
g. Understand the Mean Value Theorem for Integrals

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