MATH 184 (MWF 3 pm – 4 pm in LSK 200), Spring 2013

Instructor: James J. Feng, Math Annex 1206; Email: jfeng at math dot ubc dot ca; Telephone: (604) 822-4936.
Office hours: By appointment only. Please email (preferred) or call.

TA office hours: Yi Sui (yisui@math dot etc), Wednesdays 12:30 - 1:30 pm, LSK Building, IAM Lounge, which is on the 3rd floor across from the washrooms. (IAM stands for Institute of Applied Mathematics. The door is close to the Math Learning Centre, with a note on the door saying IAM Lounge). Yi will leave the IAM Lounge door open during the office hour.

Also note the Math Learning Center Drop-in help at LSK 301 and 302, 9:30 - 6:30 everyday.

Textbook: Calculus: Early Transcendentals. Volume 1. Third custom edition for UBC. by Briggs and Cochran. ISBN 10 digit: 1256734594; ISBN 13 digit: 9781256734598. This book and the student solutions manual is available at the UBC Bookstore. You are free to use a different edition of the Briggs and Cochran textbook. In fact, the above was extracted from the thicker hardcover textbook, Calculus: Early Transcendentals, by Briggs and Cochran, 1st edn. If you use a different edtition of the text, there may be differences in page number references and problem numbering. It is up to you to deal with any such potential inconsistencies.


MATH 184 Course Outline (includes weekly schedule of topics and the corresponding textbook sections.)
 
  • Week-by-week detailed learning goals: you should read these carefully. Aside from guiding your study, they contain suggested problems from the textbook. Since the exam and midterm questions will be similar to the WebWork homeworks AND the suggested problems, it is critically important that you do both. WebWork assignments count toward your grade but the suggested problems don't. See detailed grading scheme below.
    1. Week 0 Learning Goals
    2. Week 1 Learning Goals
    3. Week 2 Learning Goals
    4. Week 3 Learning Goals
    5. Week 4 Learning Goals
    6. Week 5 Learning Goals
    7. Week 6 Learning Goals
    8. Week 7 Learning Goals
    9. Week 8 Learning Goals
    10. Week 9 Learning Goals
    11. Week 10 Learning Goals
    12. Weeks 11 and 12 Learning Goals


    • Supplementary notes
  • A business problem. for week one.

  • Here are some notes on Elasticity of Demand, notes on Compound interest for week 6.

  • Here are some (for week 6 and week 7)
    problems on Elasticity of Demand (with answers),
    problems on Continuous Compound Interest (with answers)
    problems on Related Rates in business (with answers)
    for week 7.


    • Workshops:

  • General information on the workshops;
  • Workshop grading scheme;
  • Weekly problems. Solutions (including quiz solutions) to be posted at the end of each week.


    • Grading scheme: Final exam (50%) + Midterm (30%) + Weekly Workshop (10%) + Weekly WebWork assignments (10%).

    To access WebWork: Go to the WebWork login page, click on our course MATH_184_201_2012W2, and log in using your CWL.

    Midterm exam: Feb. 8, 3 - 4 pm, covering materials from Week 0 to Week 4 inclusive. A few old midterms with solutions: 2012MT_a, 2012MT_b, 2012MT_c. They are good practice problems, but don't necessarily cover all the types of problems in our midterm. Try to solve them without looking at the solutions first.
     
    Missed Workshops or Midterms: If a workshop is missed for a documented medical or another valid reason, it will be ignored, with other workshops reweighted to compensate for the missed one. In the case of a missed midterm, reweighting of other course components may be granted in the following two circumstances: (a) prior notice of a valid conflict or absence on the scheduled date; or (b) notification to the instructor within 72 hours of absence due to medical condition. Original written documentation, for example a doctor’s note or letter from a coach, is required in all cases; otherwise, a score of 0 will be assigned for the missed workshop or midterm.