Math 127, Calculus for Life & Social Sciences I, Section 4

Fall 2006

• Instructor: Prof. Eric Sommers
• Time and Place: TTh 1:00 - 2:15 in Marcus 131
• E-mail: esommers@math.umass.edu.
• Office: LGRT 1223K. Office Phone: 5-6013.
• Office Hours:
  • Monday 3 -- 4 pm
  • Tuesday 9 -- 10 am
  • Thursday 3 -- 4 pm
  and by appointment. For an appointment, send me an e-mail.
• Teaching Assistants:
  • Nicholas Powers npowers@student.umass.edu.
  • Nathaniel Trask natrask@student.umass.edu.

Lectures:

• Ch 3.3, 4.1: 3.3,4.1
• Ch 4.1, 4.2: 4.1,4.2
• Ch 4.3: 4.3
• Ch 4.4: 4.4
• Ch 4.7: 4.7
• Ch 4.8: 4.8
• Ch 5.1: 5.1
• Ch 5.2: 5.2
• Ch 5.3: 5.3
• Ch 5.4: 5.4
• Ch 5.5: 5.5

Homework updates:

• OWLS are now re-opened...
• Click here to access the OWL system for homework: OWL Login.

• Visit the resource center in LGRT 110. It is open 3-8 p.m from Monday to Thursday and is always staffed by at least 2 T.A.'s.
  You may drop in anytime-- no appointment is necessary.

Announcements and useful stuff:

• Final Exam: Wednesday, Dec 20, 8:00 - 10 AM in Boyden Gym.
• You are allowed two sides of a piece of notebook paper for formulas, etc.
• Exam covers the whole course: 1/3 on Chs 1 and 2; 1/3 on Chs 3 and 4; and 1/3 from Ch 5.
• OWLS to reopen this Wed until next Wed: you may do any OWL to receive full credit. Redoing an existing OWL for practice will never lower your score.
  

  Practice Exams:

• 2005 Fall Final is available here: Fall 2005 . Problems 22 and 23 have not been covered this semester.
• Old Final with Solutions: Old Final
  

  Second exam materials:

• 2005 Fall Midterm II is available here: Fall 2005
• 2004 Fall Midterm II is available here: Fall 2004
  

• First exam materials:
  • Answer Key (there are 2 correct answers for #12 in Green/Red: a and c) for Exam #1:
    • Special Code 101806 (Makeup): dabad cccdc ecddc ccdeb
    • Special Code 101906 (Green): dabbc badcc dccda dddec
    • Special Code 661019 (Red): dabbc badcc dccda ddded
  • 2004 Fall practice exam is available here: Fall 2004
    The answers: adbdc becdd bdcbd beebb
  • 2005 Fall practice exam is available here: Fall 2005

• For general course information, see General course information.

• Text: The textbook is Applied Calculus (3rd Edition) by Hughes-Hallet et al.
  If you choose to use the 3rd edition, follow the suggested problems here: New_syllabus
  If you choose to use the 2nd edition, follow the suggested problems here: Old_syllabus

• Calculator: You will need a graphing calculator. Any decent scientific calculator with graphing capability should be good.
  For sure, anything in the TI- 8? series will do the trick.

• Exams: There are two midterms and a final exams.
  • Midterm I: Thursday, October 19, 6:30-8 P.M.
  • Midterm II: Thursday, November 16, 6:30-8 P.M. in Thomsen 106.
  • Final: Wednesday, December 20, 8:00 AM in
• Grading: Grading for this section will be as follows:
  • 80% of your grade comes from the exams (see the general course webpage above). Each midterm counts 25 % and the final counts 30 %.
    
  • In this section, 20% of the grade will be determined by the OWL homework assignments (I will drop the 2 lowest OWL assignment scores from your grade).
  • You must pass at least one exam in order to pass the course.