MAT 123 — Introduction to Calculus

ELC 90, Fall 08

 

Instructor: Marcelo Disconzi

(disconzi@math.sunysb.edu)

General information about the course — including syllabus, grading policy and the dates of exams — may be found on this link. The course coordinator is William Bernhard (bill@math.sunysb.edu). Here you will find information concerning the ELC 90 lecture.

Lecture ELC 90 meets MW 6:55pm- 8:20pm at Hvy Engr Lab201 (click here for a map).

Exercises are going to be assigned every week and they must be submitted before the deadline (see below for a list of homework problems).

Late homework will not be accepted. Quizzes will be applied in class every week covering the material of the previous week.

The course has a grader: Suren Grigoryan.

Course information

My office hours are: Thu 12:00-2:00 at the MLC and  Mon 8:30pm-9:30pm at my office (2-114, second floor of the Math Building; don’t you know where the Math Bld is? Click here for a map). Recall, however, that the MLC is a place for helping students; hence, you may come to the MLC any time you want and certainly you will find a tutor there to help you.

If this schedule does not work for you, you may send me an email (disconzi@math.sunysb.edu) to set up an appointment.

Office hours

Extra class—Review section for the midterm!

Friday, September 26 at 6:00pm on room P-131 of the Math Building.

You can get a practice midterm here. If you don’t have the book, you can get the graphs and values of trig functions.

Here is the solution of the practice midterm together with some extra hints.

For more information concerning the midterm (date, room etc), click here.

 

 

Extra class—Review section for second midterm!

Thursday, November 6 at 7:00pm on room P-131 of the Math Building.

You can get a practice midterm here.

Here is a copy of the second midterm from last year (Fall 07).

Here are the solutions for the practice.

For more information concerning the midterm (date, room etc), click here.

 

There is no class on Monday, December 15.

According to University regulations December 15 follows a Thursday schedule.

 

Extra class — Review for the Final!

Wednesday, December 17 at 6:00pm on room P-131 of the Math Building.

For more information concerning the final (day, time, etc) click here.

Click here to get a Practice Final! And click here for some of the solutions.

Announcements

In the table below the first column indicates the section of the book, the second one indicates the assigned exercises and the third one indicates the dates they are due. Unless stated differently, problems are from the textbook Precalculus Essentials, by Blitzer (second edition). Problems with an asterisk are from the book MAT123 Supplement. If you don’t have the book you can get the exercises here.

 

Homework

Section

Exercises

Due date

Comments

4.3

13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 43, 44, 49, 50

09/15

 

4.4

9, 13, 14, 15, 67, 68, 70, 84, 87, 92, 93, 95

09/17

 

4.5

7, 9, 12, 16, 19, 45, 47, 59, 62, 63

10/06

Section 4.5 will be on the Midterm, even though these problems are due after it.

4.6

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11

10/06

Section 4.6 will be on the Midterm, even though these problems are due after it.

4.7

1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 47, 55

10/06

Section 4.7 will be on the Midterm, even though these problems are due after it.

5.5

11, 12, 16, 18, 22, 25, 29, 33, 39, 41, 43, 45, 52

10/06

Section 5.5 will be on the Midterm, even though these problems are due after it.

3.1

21, 28, 35, 41, 42, 53, 61, 63

10/20

 

3.2

21, 24, 27, 33, 38, 43, 50, 78, 80, 89, 95, 102, 122, 124

10/22

 

3.3

5, 14, 25, 27, 33, 34, 40, 42, 48, 54, 70, 89, 94, 97, 99, 101, 121

11/03

 

3.4

2, 8, 14, 26, 32, 41, 44, 62, 67, 72, 78, 84, 91, 97

11/03

 

3.5

9, 13, 14, 31, 32

11/05

 

2.6

23, 31, 51, 53, 59, 67

11/10

 

1.10

20, 21, 25, 27, 30, 32, 43

11/10

 

2.1 *

5, 6, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20

11/24

 

2.2 *

9, 10, 14, 18, 34, 42

11/24

 

2.3 *

1, 7, 15, 16, 19, 26, 27, 33

12/08

 

2.4 *

2, 3, 10, 14

12/08

 

2.5 *

1, 2, 11, 12, 19, 23

12/15

We will not have class on 12/15, so bring the homework to my office.

2.6 *

2, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17

12/15

We will not have class on 12/15, so bring the homework to my office