Math 1101, Calculus I
(8-9:05 AM MWF and 8-9:40 AM Tu, Sci 3510)




Final exam: The final is at 8:30-10:30 AM on Dec 20.

Practice final: Here is a practice exam you can use to test how well prepared you are.  Try taking this exam without using your textbook, notes, and calculator.  You may even try to time yourself (the final is 2 hours).  Don't use this exam to try to second guess what may be on the final and what may not.  Use it identify weaknesses in your knowledge, then make sure you fill those gaps.

Last HW assignment: The last HW is now graded and available to be picked up from the envelope outside my office.  The scores are not very good.  I am afraid I overworked you and you didn't have enough time to devote to this assignment.  So I will count this as an extra credit assignment rather than a required one.  But I want to encourage you to learn how to do these problems.  To reward you for continuing to think about them, I will put one of them on the final.  If you figure out how to do them before then, you'll have some easy points to score on the final.  I will be happy to answer questions about these problems in office hours.

Office hours for the rest of the semester:
Syllabus: Here is the syllabus.

TA: Stephanie Schroeder (schr0772)
Discussion section: 8-9 M in Sci 3510 (the usual classroom)

Online homework: Here is a link to webwork.  You will need your user name and password to login.  Your username is the same as your UMM e-mail username.  If you are logging in for the first time, your password is your student ID.  You should change this as soon as convenient.  Webwork assignments close at midnight on the due date.

Mathematica: Mathematica is available on the computers in Sci 3510 and Sci 2530.  Sci 3510 is open 7:30 AM -9 PM daily and Sci 2530 is open as long as the Science building is open, which is 7:30 AM - midnight M-F and 11 AM - midnight on weekends.  You are free to use either room as long as there is no class in there.  You are certainly not required to have Mathematica for your own computer.  If you want to have it anyway, a student edition is available from Wolfram for $139.95.  This is identical in features to the full version.  (The full version costs $1880-$3135 depending on the operating system for those not lucky enough to have a student ID.)  You can also buy a license limited to a semester for $44.95 or a year for $69.95.

You may find it useful to download the free MathReader for your own computer.  It will let you read notebook files, but it won't let you run any computation.

Notebook files:
Computer accounts on cda.morris.umn.edu: You may want to use an account on cda.morris.umn.edu to store your Mathematica files. This is the university's general purpose server and is accessible from any computer connected to the internet. This would allow you to have access to your files wherever you are, on or off campus. It runs Unix, but you certainly don't have to know Unix to be able to use it for basic file storage. PCs on campus can connect to it using WinSCP, Macs can connect to it using Fetch. (You could of course use a different scp client if you prefer.) In fact, you already have an account set up on this computer, you just have to activate it by setting a password, which is done by contacting Computing Services.

Homework: There are three types of homework.  HW labeled Webwork is to be completed and submitted online by midnight on the given deadline.  It is submitted electronically only.  It is a good idea to have the answers written down for your own record, but you do not need to submit a hard copy.  HW labaled Turn in is to be written up neatly on paper and submitted in the envelope on the board next to my office by 5 PM on the given deadline.  HW labeled Prepare for quiz is tested in the form of quizzes.  You are given a quiz which consists of a problem(s) taken directly from this HW in class on the day of the deadline.  It is a good idea to write up the answers on paper neatly for your own records, but you do not neet to submit anything other than the quiz to me.

Assigned
 Due
 Read
 Type of homework
 Exercises
8/31
 extended
Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 0
9/2
 extended
Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 1, problems 1-15
9/2
 9/9
Turn in
 Written assignment 1
9/6
 extended 1.1
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 1, problems 16-27.
9/7
 9/14
 1.1
 Prepare for quiz
 You may work together: 1.1.2, 5-8, 11, 14, 19, 20, 47, 49, 52
9/9
 9/14
 1.2
 Prepare for quiz
 You may work together: 1.1.39, 40, 45, 46, 48, 53-55
9/12
 9/14
 1.2
 Prepare for quiz
 You may work together: 1.1.57-66
9/13
 9/20
 introduction.nb
 Mathematica
 Download the introduction.nb Mathematica file above, read it, and experiment with it
9/14
1.2, 1.3
Now new assignment today. Keep playing with introduction.nb on Mathematica. It should keep you busy for now.
9/16
 9/20
 1.3
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 1, problems 1-35
9/19
 9/27
 1.4, 1.5
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 2, problems 1-15
9/20
 9/27
 1.5
 Mathematica
 Download the precalculus.nb Mathematica file above, read it, and experiment with it. You may skip 3.3 on one-to-one and inverse functions for now. We will cover it soon. Pay particular attention to Ch. 4 on plotting functions.
9/21
 9/27
 1.6
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 2, problems 16-25
Turn in
 Use Mathematica to do 1.5.3-6, 13, 14, 20. Submit a printout of your Mathematica session in the envelope next to my office door and the notebook file by e-mail by 5 PM on the  due date.
9/23
 9/27
 1.6
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 2, problems 26-35
9/26
1.6
No new homework this week
9/27
1.6
9/28
1.6
9/30
1.6
No new homework to turn in.  But I recommend that you work on the Review problems p. 77-79 in Stewart. (Problems 23-30 are on material we haven't covered yet.)  Pay particular attention to the concept check exercises on p. 77, as lack of such knowledge seemed to hurt you most on the exam.
10/3


1.6
No new homework to turn in. Do exercises in the book as part of your review. Especially, do exercises on material that you find difficult. Come to this week's problem solving sessions to get more experience.
10/4
10/5
10/7
1.6
No new homework this week
10/10
 10/19 Principles of Problem Solving on p.80-85 and 2.1
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 3, problems 1-15
10/11
 10/19
Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 3, problems 16-23
10/11
 10/12
Look at
 We will solve some of the following exercises in class tomorrow. You don't have to turn them in, but you should attempt them before coming to class so you get more out of the discussion.
p 78-79: 10, 25, 26
p. 85: 11, 18-20
Prove by induction that 13+23+33+ ... +n3 = n2(n+1)2/4.
10/12
 10/19 2.1
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 3, problems 24-36
10/14
 10/19 2.2
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 3, problems 37-50
10/19
 10/25 2.3
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 4, problems 1-15
10/21
 10/25 2.3
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 4, problems 16-30
10/24
 10/31 2.4, 2.6
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 5, problems 1-15
10/25
 10/31 2.4, 2.6
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 5, problems 16-25
10/26
 10/31 2.4, 2.5
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 5, problems 26-40
10/28
2.5
No new homework, but I recommend working on the following problems in preparation for the exam.
p. 78           True/false quiz 8-11
p. 79           23-27
p. 85           11-20
p. 176         Concept check 1-6
p. 176-177  True/false quiz 1-11, 16
P. 177-179  Exercises 1-26, 31.a, 48.a, 53, 54.a

You can also work on any number of limit problems at the end of each section. Odd numbered problems have solutions in the back of your textbook.
11/1-2
2.7

11/4
 11/9
 2.7
 Prepare for quiz You may work together: Quiz problems 1
11/7
2.8, 2.9, Problems Plus on p. 180
No new homework.  Keep working on quiz problems 1.
11/8

 11/16
 3.1
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 6, problems 1-15


Mathematica
 Download limits.nb and play with it until you understand how you can use Mathematica to work with limits, recursive and inductive formulas, and equations of tangent and secant lines.
11/9
 11/16
 3.2
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 7, problems 1-10
11/11
 11/16
 3.2
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 8, problems 1-15
11/16
 Prepare for quiz You may work together: Quiz problems 2
11/14
3.3, 3.4
No new homework.  Keep working on quiz problems 2
11/15
 11/22
 3.4, 3.5
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 9, problems 1-20.  Also notice the extended deadline on HW sets 6-8
11/16
 11/22
 3.5, 3.6
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 10, problems 1-6
You may work together: HW set 10, problems 7-10
11/18
 11/22
 3.5, 3.6
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 11, problems 1-13
You may work together: HW set 11, problems 14, 15
11/21
 11/28
 3.6, 3.8, 3.9
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 12, problems 1-10. Note the Monday deadline.
11/22
 11/28
 3.9
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 13, problems 1-15. Note the Monday deadline.
11/23
3.9
No new homework. Happy Thanksgiving!
11/28
3.9, 3.10
No new homework, but I recommend working on the following problems on in preparation for the exam
p. 270 Concept check 1-4
p. 270-271 True/false quiz 1-11, 13
p. 271-273 1-47 (randomly pick 10 of these), 54-59, 63-66, 77-79, 81-83, 86, 87, 90, 100-102

Be sure to look at the following very interesting problems. They make you think, which is good.
p. 273 103-106
11/29
3.10, 3.11
No new homework. Study for the exam.
11/30
3.10, 3.11
No new homework.
12/2
3.11, 3.5, 3.7
No new homework, but a good way to spend some time this weekend would be to work out the remaining identities and derivatives involving hyperbolic functions and their inverses. Also, think about the extra credit problem on the exam.
12/5
 12/13
 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 14, problems 1-15
12/6
 12/13
 4.2, 4.3
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 15, problems 1-15
12/13(at 5PM)
 Turn in
 You may work together: 4.2.6, 21, 22, and problem 5 on Exam 3
(Hint for 4.2.21: Do 22 first, then use what you learned in 22 and induction)
12/7
 12/13
 4.4
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 16, problems 1-5
12/13 (at 5PM) Turn in You may work together: 4.2.29. 36
12/9
 12/13
 4.4, 4.7
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 17, problems 1-12
12/12
 12/15
 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
 Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 18, problems 1-10
12/13
 12/15
Webwork
 Do this on your own: HW set 19, problems 1-6
12/14
4.10
No new homework to turn in.  But you should read 4.10 in the textbook.  It talks about antiderivatives, which we mentioned in class today. Also diffandint.nb is a Mathematica notebook which reviews almost everything we learned about derivatives and integrals except for related rates.  A few parts go into more detail than we did (e.g. Riemann sums), but overall I'd say it's a good summary.  It also shows you how to use Mathematica to compute derivatives--it's really easy.

An illustrated story about exponential growth and chess: Here is a link to the story we read in class about the wise man who got more rice than he could ever eat for inventing chess.

Exam solutions: