Math 1a
 
Calculus of One and Several Variables
Fall 2009-10
 
MWF 10:00 - 10:55 AM, Baxter Lecture Hall
Course Description | Policies | Textbooks | Lecture Notes | Handouts | Homework | Sections

Instructor: Tom Graber, 362 Sloan, 626-395-4359, graber@caltech.edu
Lead TA: Nahid Walji, Sloan 260, 626-395-4340,
Course Secretary: Kathy Carreon, 253 Sloan, 626-395-4335, kcarreon@caltech.edu

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Saturday, 12/05/09

4 - 6 pm 151 Sloan

 

 

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Sections
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Section 2 - Branimir Cacic
Office Hours: Sunday 6 - 7 p.m. Rm.

 155 Sloan, 626-395-4081

R 9:00 103 Downs  
Section 3 - Serin Hong
Office Hours: Sunday 5 - 6 p.m
Rm. 155 Sloan, 626-395-4081
R 9:00 102 Steele  
Section 4 - Edward Fan
Office Hours: Saturday 2 - 3 p.m.
Rm. 155 Sloan, 626-395-4081
R 10:00 103 Downs  
Section 5 - Rafael Torres-Ruiz
Office Hours: TBA
Rm. 155 Sloan, 626-395-4081
R 10:00 11 Downs  

Section 6 - Dapeng Zhang

Office Hours: Sunday 1 - 2 p.m.
Rm. 155 Sloan, 626-395
-4081

R 10:00 119 Downs  
Section 7 - Brian Skinner
Office Hours: Sunday 1 - 2 p.m.
Rm. 155 Sloan, 626-395-4081
R 1:00 102 Steele  
Section 8 - Nahid Walji (Lead TA)
Office Hours: Sunday 3 - 4 p.m.
Rm. 260Sloan, 626-395-4340
R 1:00 151 Sloan  
Section 9 - Anna Maltsev
Office Hours: Saturday 3- 4 p.m.
Rm. 158 Sloan, 626-395-6805
R 1:00 142 Keck  
Section 10 - Lawrence Chung
Office Hours: Sunday 9 - 10 pm
Rm. 256 Sloan, 626-395-4338
R 2:00 11 Downs  
Section 11 - Laura Peskin
Office Hours: Sunday 4 - 5 p.m
Rm. 260 Sloan, 626.395-395-4340
R 2:00 102 Steele  
     
     
     

Course Description
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The following topics will be covered in this course:
  • Real and Complex Numbers
  • Sequences and Series
  • Integration
  • Applications, Improper Integrals
  • Continuity, Differentiability, Tangents
  • The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
  • Inverse Functions, Logarithm
  • Taylor Expansions
  • Sequences and Series II
  • Odds and Ends
     

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Homework:

There will be weekly homework assignments. All assignments and due dates will be clearly posted in the Homework section below. Homework is due Monday at 10:00 a.m.. Please submit your completed work in the appropriate Section Box outside of the Math Office, 253 Sloan. Graded assignments will be directly returned to you by your TA during office hours or at recitation.

Exams:

A one hour exam will be given after weeks 3 and 7 and a Final Exam. No one will be excused from the final.

Grading:

The awarding of a final grade of Pass or Fail will depend on a composite of these factors; the final exam will be worth 40 percent, while the homework will be worth 30 percent and the 2 one-hour exams are each worth 15 percent.

Collaboration and Tools:

The use of calculators, computer software, homework assignments and solution sets from previous terms, books and notes and or other such tools is NOT permitted on the exams. Collaboration on exams is not allowed.

Collaboration is allowed on the homework but you must write the solutions in your own language. Use of books and notes is allowed on the homework but you may not use solution sets from previous terms if they do the exact same problems. Use of calculators and computer software is allowed for homework but you can only use these tools to check your work.

Recitations:

Go to the recitations! Each week, a portion of the recitation will be dedicated to introducing some computational (or even theoretical) aspect which the Instructor will not have time to present in class. In general, get to know your TA and bug him/her to death (figuratively speaking) with your questions, and try to fill in all the holes in your understanding of the subject.

Office Hours:

TA office hours will be posted very soon.


Textbooks
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Calculus Volume 1, Tom M. Apostol ISBN 0-471-00005-1

Lecture Notes
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Handouts
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Homework
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Due Date Homework  Solutions
Monday, 10/05 @ 10 a.m. Assignment 1  
Monday, 10/12 @ 10 a.m. Assignment 2  
Monday, 10/19 @ 10 a.m. Assignment 3

 

 

Monday, 10/26 @ 10 a.m. Assignment 4  
Monday, 11/02 @ 10 a.m. Assignment 5  
     
Monday, 11/09 @ 10 a.m. Assignment 6  
Monday, 11/16 @ 10 a.m. Assignment 7  
Monday, 11/23 @ 10 a.m. Assignment 8
Tuesday, 12/1 @ 10 a.m.
Assignment 9
 
     
     
     


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