Cal Poly Mathematics

Math 141, Calculus I
Fall 2003

Time: MTWR 1-2
Location: Building 38, Room 225

Instructor: Dr. Ben Richert
Office: Building 25, Room 325
Office phone: (75)6-1681
Office hours: M,T,W: 12-1; R: 12-1, 2-3; and by appointment.
Email: brichert@calpoly.edu

Course description: Beginning calculus: context (tangency/rate of change problems), groundwork (limits), tools (derivatives, integrals), and applications (optimization problems, graphing, etc.).

Course home page: Blackboard on my.calpoly.edu.

Text: James Stewart, Calculus, fifth edition, Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2003.

Syllabus: We will be working through chapters 1-5 of Stewart's Calculus in this course.

Prerequisites: Math 118, 119, or equivalent.

Grades: Grades will be based on quizzes and exams. The quizzes count for 20%, the first in-class exam counts for 20%, the second in-class exam counts for 25%, and the final counts for 35%.

Reading: Students are expected to read the section of the text to be covered on a given day before the lecture.

Individual Homework: Individual homework questions will be listed on the web as we go through the semester. These will not be collected, but will be used in the construction of quizzes and exams.

Quizzes: There will be one quiz each week (typically on Thursday). This quiz will usually be based on the homework, and the intention is that completing the individual homework assignments and looking over your solutions will be sufficient preparation. No makeup quizzes will be given; however, your lowest quiz score will be dropped.

Exams: There will be two in-class exams and one cumulative final. Exam 1 is scheduled for Thursday, October 16. Exam 2 is scheduled for Tuesday, November 18. These dates are tentative. The final will be held from 1-4 on Thursday, December 11.