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Math 1500, The Calculus
2013/2014
Peter Selinger

Course Information

See the Course Information Sheet.

Announcements

Finals are marked (posted Apr 25). I have marked the final exams, and your course grades have been submitted and should be available via Dal Online. Thanks everyone for a great class! The average on the final exam was a very respectable 73 percent; not as high as the first midterm, but much higher than midterms 2, 3, and 4. I was especially happy that several of you who had been struggling pulled it together at the end. Good work! In the course grades, we ended up with 18 A's (including plus or minus), 9 B's, 2 C's, 1 D, and regrettably 5 F's. I will be away until May 7, and I'll arrange an office hour after that, upon request, for those who want to see their final exam. I can also send a breakdown of your grade by email. Have a great summer!

Homework pickup (posted Apr 19). Homeworks 17 and 18 are available for pickup from the box in front of my office, Chase 303. Older homeworks are available as well, if you have not yet picked them up.

A game (posted Apr 12). For your entertainment, here is a link to that game I was talking about in class: Move Them.

Office hour moved. My office hour on Monday, April 14 will be moved to 2:30-3:30, instead of 1-2.

Review Session, April 22. We will have a review session on April 22, from 10-12, in Chase 319. Please note that this is not our usual classroom.

Homework 18. Let's remove Section 9.10 from the homework, since we didn't really get to it in class.

Final Exam Date. According to the website of the Registrar's Office, our final exam will be on Thursday, April 24 at 8:30am at Dalplex.

Office hours. My current office hours are Monday 1-2 and Wednesday 1-2.

Old Announcements

Homework Assignments

  Due Homework
1. Fri, Sep 20 1.2 #4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 21, 22; 1.3 #2, 12, 18, 24, 29.
2. Mon, Sep 30 1.5 #3, 5, 8, 14, 26, 41.
3. Wed, Oct 9 1.6 #3, 7, 12, 17, 19, 24, 27.
4. Wed, Oct 16 2.1 #4, 11, 21, 23, 26; 2.2 #4, 18, 26, 32.
5. Mon, Oct 28 2.3 #7, 14, 27, 34, 48; 2.4 # 9, 14, 20.
6. Wed, Nov 6 2.5 #1, 6, 9, 13, 16, 19; 2.6 #10, 14, 18, 24, 38, 41.
7. Wed, Nov 13 Handout 1 #1-6, 12.
Corrections: In Problem 4, "rectangular box" should be "square box". In Problem 6, "ellipse" should be "parabola".
8. Fri, Nov 22 2.7 #16, 17, 24, 29; 3.2 #5, 7, 8; 3.3 #3, 13, 22, 28.
9. Mon, Dec 2 3.4 #5-7, 19, 20; 3.8 #1-3.
10. Wed, Jan 15 4.1 #1, 9, 27, 28; 4.2 #8, 15, 21, 23, 31.
11. Wed, Jan 22 4.3 #10, 18, 34, 39, 43, 46.
12. Fri, Jan 31 4.4 #3, 7, 14, 20, 70, 90; 7.4 #3, 7, 11, 18.
13. Mon, Feb 24 6.2 #8, 35; 6.3 #5; 6.4 #5, 15; 7.5 #6, 15; 7.6 #28; 8.8 #6, 28.
Correction: in 6.2 #35, the rotation is supposed to be about the y-axis. It is a typo in the textbook.
14. Mon, Mar 3 4.6 #5, 6. In addition, in each problem, use the error formula to estimate the number of slices required to guarantee that the answer is accurate to 5 digits, both for the Trapezoid and Simpson's rules.
15. Fri, Mar 7 14.1 #4, 6, 16; 14.2 #4, 6, 16; 14.3 #2, 6, 12, 17.
16. Mon, Mar 17 5.1# 2, 10, 26, 48; 5.2# 6, 12, 24, 28, 30.
17. Mon, Mar 31 5.8 #2; 9.1 #11, 13, 16.
18. Mon, Apr 7 9.7 #2, 11, 18; 9.8 #1, 4, 12. Optional: 9.10 #2, 3, 14.

Handouts

Handout 1: Optimization problems (Nov 4, updated Nov 11): [pdf].

Links

H. Jerome Keisler, Elementary Calculus, An Infinitesimal Approach, Second Edition. Available from http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html.


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