If you need to get ahold of me, the best way is through email: elyse@math.ubc.ca.
My office is in the Mathematics Building (behind the Koerner library), room 229F.
Mondays, 1:10-3:00 pm
Wednesday, 1:10-3:00 pm
Office hours will be in my office, Room 229F in the Mathematics Building.
I teach until 1 o'clock, so if I'm a few minutes late, hang around--I'm on my way!
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I set this course up after student request; I cannot guarantee that I will moderate, so please be friendly and kind, and discuss with each other.
Unless otherwise mentioned, you need to show your work on each problem for full marks. We want you to demonstrate to us what you understand.
Your quiz grades will make up 6% of your final grade. This portion of your grade is capped at 100%, so students who earn more than 100% on quizzes (due to bonus marks and generally being awesome) will have their grades rounded down to a measly perfect score.
If you would like your quiz to be regraded, please do not alter your quiz itself, but write a note that includes what the grading mistake is (not just which question you would like regraded--please refer to the marking scheme that is published below) and attach it. Give it to me no later than one week after quizzes have been made available at the MLC. Regraded quizes may end up with lower scores.
A number of old sample midterms are floating about on the internet. Here are some, offered as I found them. I make no claims that your midterms will be similar.
Midterm 1 | Midterm 2 |
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Week | Sections | Topics | Notes | Learning Objectives, Suggested Problems |
External Resources |
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1 | 11.1-11.3 12.1-12.2 |
Introduction; Vectors; Planes; Level Curves | Tuesday, Jan 3 Wednesday, Jan 4 Thursday, Jan 5 Friday, Jan 6 Monday, Jan 9 |
Week 1 Goals
Suggested problems: |
YouTube: Online Notes: |
2 | 12.4, 12.8 | Partial derivatives; local max/min problems | Tuesday, Jan 10 Wednesday, Jan 11 Thursday, Jan 12 Friday, Jan 13 Monday, Jan 16 |
Week 2 Goals
Suggested problems: |
YouTube:
Notes:
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3 | 12.8-12.9 | Absolute max/min problems; method of Lagrange multipliers | Tuesday, Jan 17 Wednesday, Jan 18 Thursday, Jan 19 Friday, Jan 20 Monday, Jan 23 |
Week 3 Goals
Suggested problems: |
Worksheet: Finding extrema YouTube:
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4 | 5.1-5.2 | Approximating areas under curves; definite integrals |
Tuesday, Jan 24 Wednesday, Jan 25 Thursday, Jan 26 Friday, Jan 27 Monday, Jan 30 Tuesday, Jan 31 Wednesday, Feb 1 |
Week 4 Goals
Suggested problems: |
Graphing Riemann Sums on Desmos Animations explaining Riemann sums: Visual Calculus YouTube: |
5 | 4.8 5.3, 5.5 |
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; antidifferentition; substitution rule |
Thursday, Feb 2 Friday, Feb 3 Monday, Feb 6 Tuesday, Feb 7 Wednesday, Feb 8 |
Week 5 Goals
Suggested problems: |
Solutions to 4.8
Paul's Notes: substitution YouTube: |
6 | 7.2 | Integration by parts | Thursday, Feb 9 Friday, Feb 10 Wednesday, Feb 15 |
Week 6 Goals
Suggested problems: |
YouTube: |
7 | 7.3-7.5 | Integration of products of powers of trig functions; trigonometric substitution; the method of partial fractions |
Tuesday, Feb 14 Thursday, Feb 16 Friday, Feb 17 Monday, Feb 27 Tuesday, Feb 28 Wednesday, March 1 |
Week 7 Goals
Suggested problems: |
Worksheet for choosing methods of integration YouTube:
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8 | 7.7-7.9 | Numerical integration (Midpoint Rule, Trapezoid Rule, and Simpson's Rule); improper integrals; introduction to differential equations |
Thursday, March 2 Friday, March 3 Monday, March 6 Tuesday, March 7 Wednesday, March 8 Thursday, March 9 Friday, March 10 |
Week 8 Goals
Suggested problems: |
YouTube: |
9 | 2.1-2.2 2.5-2.6 |
Continuous random variables; expected value; variance; standard deviation | Monday, March 13 Tuesday, March 14 Wednesday, March 15 Thursday, March 16 Friday, March 17 |
Week 9 Goals
Suggested problems: |
Solutions from Probability Appendix
YouTube: |
10 | 8.1-8.4 | Infinite sequences; infinite series; divergence and integral tests |
Monday, March 20 Tuesday, March 21 Wednesday, March 22 Thursday, March 23 Friday, March 24 Monday, March 27 |
Week 10 Goals
Suggested problems: |
Visualising geometric series with stacking heads (Geogebra) Converting repeating decimals to fractions using geometric series Khan Academy |
11 | 8.5 9.1-9.2 |
Ratio test; comparison tests; approximating functions with polynomials (Taylor); properties of power series |
Tuesday, March 28 Wednesday, March 29 Thursday, March 30 Friday, March 31 Monday, April 3 Tuesday, April 4 |
Week 11 Goals
Suggested problems: |
Worksheet: series convergence tests YouTube: |
12 | 9.3-9.4 | Taylor series; using Taylor series | Wednesday, April 5 Thursday, April 6 |
Week 12 Goals
Suggested problems: |
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