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McGill University

Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Calculus MATH 139 Fall 2007

Course Outline

Webpage: ht t p: / / www. mat h. mcgi l l . ca/ ~dr ur y/ c139. ht ml

Prerequisite: A course on functions.

Access: To register in this course you will need to obtain departmental approval. Apply in person only:

Before the beginning of classes:

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 to Thursday, August 30th, 200713:00 to 15:00, location in Burnside Hall = BURN1224 (office of Prof. W. G. Brown, coordinator of 1st

calculus courses)(No appointment will be necessary)

After the beginning of classes: Between Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 and Tuesday, September 18th, 2007only, students should attend at the office hours of the course instructor, Professor S. Drury; these hours willbe posted, and will be held in BURN 1216. Permission to register for the fall term will not be availablebefore August 28th, 2007, or after Tuesday, September 18th, 2007.

This year MATH 139 will not be offered in the Winter term.

Book: Stewart, Single Variable Calculus (Early Transcendentals Edition), Sixth Edition, Brooks Cole. The

student solutions manual is strongly recommended. If you are planning to eventually take Calculus 3 (MATH222) or Intermediate Calculus (MATH 262) then buy the full calculus text : Stewart, Calculus (EarlyTranscendentals Edition), Sixth Edition, Brooks Cole.

Syllabus:

1. Review of functions and graphs.2. Limits, continuity, derivative.3. Differentiation of elementary functions.4. Applications.5. Antidifferentiation.

The syllabus is covered in chapter 1 thru 4 of the text. Note that the same book will be used if you decide tocontinue to take Calculus 2 (MATH 141).

Assessment: max(0.15a + 0.85f, 0.15a + 0.1t+ 0.75f) where a, t and f are percentage marks for theassignments, mid-term test and final examination respectively. Note that there is no 100% final option in thiscourse. In particular, if you do not do the assignments, the best you can do on the course is 85%.The finalexamination will be of 3 hours duration. There is no "additional work" option and the grade of incompletewill not be given. A supplemental exam will be available.

Assignments: There will be about 10 assignments during the semester.

Mid term: There will be a single mid-term test in class time. Date to be determined in consultation with thestudents.

This course is intended for students with no previous knowledge of calculus, but with a knowledge of

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functions. Calculus is a branch of mathematics that has found numerous applications in the sciences since itsintroduction at the end of the seventeenth century. It is the language which engineers, physicists, and otherscientists use to express their theories in mathematical terms and to solve practical problems. For example,most of the laws of physics are expressed in terms of calculus.

Calculus was invented to answer questions that could not be solved using algebra or geometry. The branch of

calculus that we study in this course, called differential calculus, began with questions about the speed ofmoving objects. How fast does a stone fall two seconds after it has been dropped from a cliff? Originally,

differential calculus was developed to solve problems connected with the motions of the planets. The Englishscientist Sir Isaac Newton and the German philosopher Gottfried W. Leibniz independently laid down theprinciples of calculus. More generally, differential calculus is concerned with rates of change. Speed can beviewed as the rate of change of distance along a line with respect to time.

Another branch of calculus, integral calculus, which is studied in Calculus 2 (MATH 141), was invented toanswer a very different kind of question. That of finding the area of shapes with curved sides?

About the Assignments

The assignments for this course will be available on the Web and will be answered on the Web. We will beusing the WeBWorK system developed by Prof. Arnie Pizer and Prof. Mike Gage at the University ofRochester. WeBWorKis an internet based method for delivering homework problems to students over theinternet.

What do I need to use WeBWorK?

The ideal is to have your own computer. Typically it is desirable to have:

An internet connection. An internet browser: Netscape, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.. Adobe's Acrobat Reader. A printer.

If you do not have a personal computer or you do not have all the components listed above, first try to obtainan account at a computer lab on campus. If you are a Faculty of Science student, you can get an infopointaccount through the SUS. If you are a Faculty of Arts student you are entitled to an account in the Faculty ofArts Computer Lab (FACL), located in the Leacock building, room 110. In the last resort, we will arrange foran account in a computer lab on campus, come see me at my office - BURN 1216.

For details of how to use the WeBWorK system see the course webpage. The URL for the assignment site isht t p: / / msr 04. mat h. mcgi l l . ca/ webwor k/ m139f 07/

Academic Integrity: McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore, all students must understandthe meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code ofStudent Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information).

Assignment Plagiarism: Assignments must be done individually. You may not copy another person's work.Furthermore, you must not give a copy of your work to another student. If you do plagiarize yourassignments, in all probability you will not get caught. However, do not lose sight of the fact that you need todo the assignments yourself in order to develop the skills you will need for the final exam. In reality, the onlyperson you would be cheating would be yourself.