Course Information

Course:
Math 104, Fall 2010
Professor:
Dr. Ghrist
TA:
David Lonoff
Lectures:
MWF 9-10 AM, DRL A1
Text:
Calculus, 6th Edition, by James Stewart.
Funny Little Calculus Text, on Prof. Ghrist's website.

Recitation and Office Hours

Recitations:
Sect.TimeLocation
261 Tues 8:30-9:30 AM DRL 4C4
262 Tues 9:30-10:30 AM DRL 4C4
263 Thur 8:30-9:30 AM DRL 4C4
264 Thur 9:30-10:30 AM DRL 4C4
Office Hours:
N/A
Office:
3N2D

Grades

There will be three midterms (worth 20% each) and a final (worth 30%) which will be the primary basis of your grade. The remaining 10% will come from homework.

Homework

There will be weekly homework assignments which will be collected in recitation. Prof. Ghrist has decided that problems will not be graded individually, but that assignments will be graded for completion. You are encouraged to work together with others on the homework, but you should write your answers in your own words. A good rule of thumb is that you should be able to explain your solution to somebody without looking at your answer.

Late homework will not be accepted. To compensate for emergencies, your lowest two homework scores will be dropped. If you know in advance you will be missing recitation, you may make arrangements to attend a different recitation (and hand in homework then), but you must inform me by the Monday of the week in question.

What's Happening in Recitation

Week 13. Midterms handed back, more review for the final. The best preparation for the final is 104 core problems and old 104 exams. I'll also be posting to blackboard some notes with a few miscellaneous topics which we did not cover thoroughly, which occasionally show up on the final.

Week 12. Review for the midterm, beginning review for the final.

Week 11. Some more power series, convergence stuff. Happy Thanksgiving break!

Week 10. Power series, intervals and radii of convergence. Taylor series and error estimation (Stewart Chapter 12, around sections 8 through 10).

Week 9. Sequences and Series (Chapter 12 of Stewart). Series convergence tests. See section 12.7 of Stewart for a nice summary of testing strategy and a bunch of practice.

Week 8. Probability Density Functions and applications. Mid-semester feedback forms.

Week 7. More applications. Work and pressure integrals. Review for the midterm next week.

Week 6. Applications of integration to volumes, surface areas of revolution.

Week 5. No Tuesday recitation due to Fall Break. Thursday recitation: we will return the first midterm and go over questions that people have. Time permitting, we will do a few more examples of the various techniques of integration.

Week 4. We did some examples of the various techniques of integration, including trig integrals, trig substitution, and partial fractions. For more practice, see Stewart Chapter 8 (various sections).

Note that homework assignment 4 is due next Thursday 10/14. Also, raw scores for exam 1 have been posted to Blackboard. Prof. Ghrist will grade for partial credit soon.

Week 3. We did some examples of differential equations. We also went over a few problems from HW3, and the practice midterm. Look at Blackboard for solutions to HW3. I also posted some recommended practice from Math 104 Old Exams:

Spring 2010: 12, 13, 19

Spring 2010 Makeup: 12, 13, 19, 20

Fall '09: 5, 10

Week 2. We did a few examples of representing functions as power series. For more of the same, see section 12.9 of Stewart. Caveat: The book asks for radius of convergence, which we have not yet discussed in class.

We did some problems involving logarithmic differentiation. See section 7.4 of Stewart for some practice problems.

Week 1. We did a few problems from HW#2. We looked at some examples of using Taylor series to compute limits which might have previously been solved with l'Hospital's rule. In many cases, these problems are easier using Taylor series.

Suggestion: look at the limit section and l'Hospital section of Stewart (the big fat calculus textbook), and try doing some of those problems using our Taylor series method.

Week 0. We will be going over course logistics, office hours, and homework policy (see above). The first homework assignment has been posted to blackboard.

University policy is for students to send an email to their TA () within the first two weeks of the semester if there are religious holidays which will cause the student to miss class, and to indicate which classes will be missed. Please do so, if necessary.

If you cannot make it to at least part of my office hours above, please email me ASAP so I can adjust them.