Calculus I Syllabus Fall 2024 PDF

Syllabus for Calculus I Fall 2024 1 Instructors and Teaching Assistants Instructor: Mohamed Dabagh ([email protected]) 2 Office hours Online or in person. Details will be announced later. 3 Time and Ven...

Syllabus for Calculus I Fall 2024 1 Instructors and Teaching Assistants Instructor: Mohamed Dabagh ([email protected]) 2 Office hours Online or in person. Details will be announced later. 3 Time and Venue Section 2: Mondays 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm + 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm, T blok, B1-08 Section 5: Wednesday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm + 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, T blok, B1-08 Section 6: Thursday 8:30 am - 10:00 am + 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, G blok, 5023 Section 7: Wednesday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm + 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, T blok, B1-08 4 Attendance Attendance is checked throughout the course. 5 Textbook W. Briggs, L. Cochran, B. Gillett; Calculus,Early Transcendentals; International Edition; Pearson; ISBN: 978-0-321-65193-8. 6 Lecture and Recitation notes Lecture notes will be uploaded and will be accessible for all. 1 7 Course Description The course covers the material listed below. Chapters refer to the above mentioned textbook. Chapter 0: Sets and Relations Chapter 1: Functions Chapter 2: Limits Chapter 3: Derivatives Chapter 4: Application of Derivatives 8 Class Discipline It is our responsibility to provide students with excellent teaching and learning environment. We are therefore asking you to respect both our responsibility to teach and the right of other students to learn. Any action that disturbs your classmates or disrupts the online activities is unacceptable. Repeated violations of the above rules may cause a student to be counted as absent for a lecture or a recitation. 9 Exam Policy and Dates 1. The maximum number of points is 100 and the minimum number of points to pass this course will be decided by the instructor. 2. There will be pop-up quizzes in some weeks, always be prepared. There will be no make-up for any of those pop-up quizzes 3. The locations and assignment to the exam rooms will be announced before the exams. 4. During the exams, the use of mobile phones, cheat sheets and other electronic equipment like calculators or computers are NOT allowed. Exams are closed book and closed notes exams. 5. If you cheat during an exam disciplinary actions will be undertaken. This ranges depending on the severity from internal handling of this matter by the teacher or sending you to the disciplinary committee. 6. Do not underestimate this course. It is advised that you study regularly every week next to going to class and attend the recitation sessions. If you do not fully understand the material you should make an appointment with your your instructor immediately after class. 7. It is students’ responsibility to follow all the announcements made in class. 2 10 General Suggestion Feel free to ask me questions in and out of class, especially during office hours. Remember that you do not have to be a math genius to be successful in this course. Regular study habits are sufficient to get a decent grade. Studying out of class for this course should become a routine. Key to success in mathematics is practice. Try to study in groups. GeoGebra and Desmos are useful softwares/websites to visualize many of the concepts we discuss. Other software/apps/website may also be useful: Maple, Wolframe Alpha.... In the following pages, you will see some basic math that will help you through this course. Then there are lecture notes of the first week. 3