Calculus I

News.

• Jan 15: The makeup final is this Wednesday (Jan 17), 6 - 8:30 pm, MATH 100.
• Dec 20: Important information on the final exam! Check your email! Or read the email text here
• Dec 14: Solutions to the forgiveness exams added (see "exams" tab).
• Dec 2: Laurel Mayhew has taken over Susan Hallowell's lecture section (030) until the end of the semester. Please check the "lectures" tab for contact information and related details.
• Dec 1: Exam 3 solutions posted.
• Nov 20: Final exam information added (under "exams" tab).
• Nov 10: MatLab function files for numerical integration methods added -- see Notes section below.
• Nov 6: Some more math-related study resources are available to you! The next session (about beating "math anxiety") is tomorrow night (11/7).
• Oct 20: Engineering Fellows review session TONIGHT (Friday 10/20), 5:30pm, ECCR 105.
• Oct 18: Additional notes on Newton's Method (for section 060) added -- see Notes below.
• Oct 16: Extra examples for section 060 (Tearle) from section 3.7 (linearization) added -- see Notes below.
• Oct 13: Section 4.1 will NOT be covered on the second exam (Oct 25); this way exam 2 is focused on derivatives and their applications. 4.1 will be included on exam 3.
• Oct 3: Reminder of deadlines: if you have final exam conflicts (including three or more on one day), you need to notify your instructor (with details of your finals schedule) by Oct 6 (this Friday); the deadline to drop the course without a petition is Oct 11.
• Sep 29: Exam 1 solutions posted.
• Sep 20: Engineering Fellows review session: Tomorrow (Thurs) night 7pm, ECCR 265. Please email suggestions for topics to Adam Bierman: bierman (at) colorado(dot)edu.
• Sep 13: Matt Tearle (instructor for section 060) and Adam Norris (also of CU's Applied Math Dept) present The Science of the Signs planetarium show on September 14 and 15, 2006 at 7:30 pm in Fiske Planetarium. (These shows are intended for the public. Students are free with CU ID at the Thursday performance.)
• Sep 01: table of office hours now available -- see "Lectures/Recitations" tab.
• Aug 31: Assessment test scores now available!
• Aug 14: Welcome to the new semester!

Important Information.

• Course syllabus
• Lecture Schedule and Homework Assignments
• Archive of old exams

Textbook.

Required textbook:

• Calculus and Analytical Geometry, 9th Ed., Thomas and Finney (blue cover) OR Thomas's Calculus, Alternate Edition, Thomas and Finney (maroon cover)

Extra (non-book) notes will be posted here as they become available throughout the course.

• Examples on linearization and estimating chage/error, using the famous problem of calculating the radius of the Earth.
• Notes on how Newton's Method can go wrong. Includes instructions on how to use MatLab file newtexample.m (and what its output means). Right-click the file and "save as", then run in MatLab.
• MatLab function files for the numerical integration methods from section 4.9 (Friday 11/10): Trapezoidal rule trapzd.m, Midpoint rule (discussed in 060 -- Tearle) midpt.m, Simpson's rule (in the textbook, but not covered) smpsn.m.

  Right-click and "save as"; in MatLab, change directory to wherever you saved the files; then, at the MatLab prompt (>>) type trapzd(@(x) x.*cos(3*x)./(1+x.^2),[0,pi],123) to estimate the integral of xcos(3x)/(1+x^2) over the interval [0,pi] with N=123.

  Some details of MatLab syntax: note the use of .* ./ and .^ to multiply, divide and exponentiate functions of x; you can use any variable name (rather than x) -- the name of the variable is given in the parentheses after the @ symbol; change "trapzd" to "midpt" or "smpsn" as desired -- the rest of the syntax is the same.

  Type ezplot(@(x) x.*cos(3*x)./(1+x.^2),[0,pi]) to see a plot of the function.

Policies.

Official CU policy information:

• Honor Code
• Disability services
• Accommodations for religious observances
• Expectations of classroom behavior
• Sexual discrimination and harassment