Contact:

• Instructor: Dr. Yue-Xian Li, MathAnnex 1202, 822-6225, yxli(at)math.ubc.ca.
  Office hours: MWF 12:00-13:00.
  
• Teaching Assistants:
  For Section 103: Jia GOU, jia_g(at)math.ubc.ca.
  For Section 104: Alexander JAKOBSEN, ajakobsen(at)math.ubc.ca.
  

Homework and Lab Assignments (Solutions to Preceding Assignments Will be Included!):

• Weekly Homework Assignments with Solutions to Previous Assignments (pdf files)
  due weekly in class on Friday!
• Biweekly Lab with Schedules (online)
  due with homework every other week on Friday. Best finish in the Lab. You can choose to finish it anywhere you like.
  
• If you can not read a pdf file, visit http://www.adobe.com/products/acro bat/readstep.html )

Important Links:

• Website for Math 102 at the Math Dept of UBC
• Online Notes (1997-1998; electronic - .html)
• Solutions to some quizzes and midterms in previous years
• Outline of final review.
• 2004 final with step-by-step solutions.
• 2006 final without solutions.
• 2008 final without solutions.
• Some formulas and values of trig functions to be provided in the final.

• Homework: 10% (based on completion/correct answer of a couple of randomly selected problems).
• Labs: 10%.
• Two Midterm Exams: (50 min each): 15% each.
• Final Exam (150 min): 50%.
• Rules:
  • Each midterm quiz/exam is closed book. Calculators of any kind will NOT be allowed.
  • Late homework assignments receive a grade of 0.
  • Missing an exam results in a mark of 0. Instructor must be notified within 48 hrs of missed test to claim medical emergency.
  • You must pass the final exam to pass the course!

Calendar:

• Friday 18 Sept, 2009 -- Homework #1 due in class.
• Friday 25 Sept, 2009 -- Lab #1 due in class.
• Friday 16 Oct, 2009 -- Midterm Exam I in class.
• Friday 20 Nov, 2009 -- Midterm Exam II in class.
• Friday 4 Dec, 2009 -- The last homework and/or lab work due in class.
• Final Exam: Dec 8, 2009 (8:30-11:00 am) -- Scheduled examination period.

Math 102 (Calculus I) Differential Calculus for Life Sciences (Sep-Dec, 2009)

No text book is required to complete this course. Any university level calculus textbook can be used as a reference book. For example, James Stewart's book "Single Variable Calculus" (any edition). Online Notes by Fellow Colleagues can be found at the Math 102 Website:
Website for Math 102 at the Math Dept of UBC
Note: My own lecture notes are significantly different from these materials. Deficiency in your performance based on these materials solely will be your own responsibility.

TOPICS (Subject to changes as the course proceeds):

• Lecture 1: Review of straight lines
• Lecture 2: Review of simple functions
• Lecture 3: Average velocity, secant lines, limits, and derivatives
• Lecture 4: The derivatives
• Lecture 5: What the derivative tells us about a function
• Lecture 6: Optimization
• Lecture 7: Chain rule, related rates, implicit differentiation
• Lecture 8: Exponential functions and logarithms
• Lecture 9: Exponential growth and decay: differential equations
• Lecture 10: Trigonometric functions
• Lecture 11: Inverse trigonometric functions
• Lecture 12: Approximation Methods
• Lecture 13: More differential equations