MAT 127: CALCULUS C

SYLLABUS

FALL 2024

Lecture 01:
Instructor: Runze Zhang, [email protected], Math Tower 3-114
Class time & location: MW 3:30–4:50pm, Library W4540
Office and MLC hours: math.stonybrook.edu/cards/zhangrunze.html
Grader: Sepehr Kooranifar, [email protected]
Office and MLC hours: math.stonybrook.edu/cards/kooranifarsepehr.html
Lecture 02:
Instructor: Arindam Mandal, [email protected]
Class time & location: TuTh 9:30–10:50am, Earth&Space 131
Office and MLC hours: math.stonybrook.edu/cards/mandalarindam.html
Grader: Dashen Yan, [email protected], Math Tower 2-109
Office and MLC hours: math.stonybrook.edu/cards/yandashen.html
Lecture 03:
Instructor and course coordinator:
Johan Asplund, [email protected], Math Tower 3-116
Class time & location: TuTh 5:00–6:20pm, Earth&Space 131
Office and MLC hours: math.stonybrook.edu/cards/asplundjohan.html
Webpage: math.stonybrook.edu/~jasplund/mat127_fall24
Grader: Amad Khan, [email protected], Math Tower S-240A
Office and MLC hours: math.stonybrook.edu/cards/khanamad.html

Course description: A continuation of MAT 126, covering sequences, series, Taylor series, dif-
ferential equations and modeling. May not be taken for credit in addition to MAT 132,
MAT 142, MAT 171, or AMS 161.
Prerequisites: C or higher in MAT 126 or level 8 on the mathematics placement examination.
Attendance: Strongly encouraged, but not mandatory.
Textbook: Single Variable Calculus Concepts and Contexts (5th Edition) by James Stewart.

Brightspace: We will use Brightspace for announcements and grades at the end of the course.
Gradescope: We will use Gradescope for returning graded quizzes and exams. You should have
received an invitation by the first class; check your Stony Brook email. Else contact the
course coordinator.
Homework: Almost every week, there will be homework which consists of in-class quizzes and
WebAssign online assignments. “One homework” means “one quiz and one WebAssign
assignment”.
Quizzes: • Quizzes will happen at almost every other lecture, the first one being sched-
uled at Lecture 3. (The actual date depends on which section you belong to.)
Date: August 21, 2024.
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WebAssign: • A WebAssign subscription is required to complete homework in this

course.
• Late submissions will not be accepted.
• Quiz dates and WebAssignment deadlines may undergo changes at the discretion of
the instructors, in which case a Brightspace announcement will appear.
• Weekly homeworks consisting of weekly in-class quizzes, and WebAssign online assign-
ments.
• The two lowest homework scores (meaning the combined score from that weeks’ quiz
and WebAssign assignment) will be dropped at the end of the course.
Exam dates: You must bring your University ID to all exams.
Exam Date Time Location
Midterm I Tu Oct 1 8:15–9:35pm TBA
Midterm II W Nov 6 8:15–9:35pm TBA
Final W Dec 11 2:15–5:00pm TBA
Grades: Your final grade will be determined as follows.
Homework: 20%
Midterm I: 20%
Midterm II: 20%
Final: 40%
Makeup exams: Not available. If you e.g. miss one midterm exam with documented evidence
(for instance, a letter from Student Accessibility Support Center), then your final exam
grade will be counted with weight 60% in your final grade. A student must attend the final
exam at the scheduled time in order to receive a passing grade in the course.
Tentative schedule: See the course webpage for a more detailed (but still tentative) schedule and
for notes. All sections refer to sections in the course textbook.
Lecture # Contents Sections
1–2 Sequences and limits §8.1
3–4 Infinite series, divergence test §8.2
5–6 Ratio and comparison tests §8.2, 8.3
7–8 Power series §8.5, 8.6
9–10 Taylor and Maclaurin series §8.7
11 Review and Midterm I
12–13 More convergence tests, absolute convergence §8.3, 8.4
14–15 No class (Spring Recess)
16–17 Ordinary differential equations (ODE) §7.1
18–19 Direction fields and Euler’s method §7.2
20–21 Separable ODEs, Review §7.3
22 Midterm II, Separable ODEs §7.3
23–24 Separable ODEs and applications §7.3, 7.4, 7.5
25–26 Power series solutions and complex numbers Notes, §I
27–28 Second order ODEs and final review Notes
Final
Course learning objectives: Students should be able to:
• Understand the notion of a sequence. Describe sequences in different ways (e.g. recur-
sively or using a closed formula for the general term). Describe asymptotic behavior
and compute limits.
• Understand the notion of an infinte series and understand the notions of convergence
and divergence. Recognize common series such as the geometric series, harmonic series,
and telescoping series.
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• Apply convergence tests (e.g. the divergence test, ratio test, comparison test and the
integral test) in order to determine whether an infinite series converges or diverges.
• Understand the notion of a power series, and manipulate them through addition, sub-
traction, derivation and integration.
• Understand the general form of Taylor series and polynomials and be able to compute
Taylor polynomials of a given degree of any function. Use Taylor series in approxima-
tion problems and as a tool to compute limits.
• Understand what an ordinary differential equation (ODE) is. Use slope fields to analyze
solutions of a first order ODE. Use Euler’s method to numerically find approximations
of solutions of an ODE.
• Identify and solve separable first order ODEs. Understand how ODEs are used to
model exponential growth and decay phenomena, and mixing problems.
• Identify and solve second order linear second order ODEs with constant coefficients.

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[email protected]. They will determine with you what accommodations are necessary
and appropriate. All information and documentation is confidential.
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