No test or quiz tomorrow: Oct 30

So on Thursday the Tutorial project is due.

What to hand in and do:

• Do the whole project, you will learn something.
• The project must be done in groups or 2 or 3, (or 4 by special arrangement with TA and myself).
• Hand in a printout of the exercise at the end.
• Only one printout is to be turned in per group.
• All perople in the group must appear named at the begining of the project. These names cannot be just handwritten in, but must appear in the electronic file.
• Be prepared to produce the Electronic version of the printout if requested.
• The printout should contain your names, and should include enought english so that the project can be easily followed by someone unfamiliar with it.
• In other words, the project should appear something like "TutoriaL" itself.

Aside-- Why I prefer Mathematica..

To be quite frank, I despise MapLev. (or is it MapleV?). It has inconsistent syntax, no proper naming conventions, inconsistent semantics, and in general is a poorly designed language. Mathematica, on the other hand is completely consistent. Every part of it uses the same naming conventions, the syntax is consistent across the whole language, and as a result, once you know a little Mathematica, you know the whole language . All you have to know is the names of the new functions, and since there are no abbreviations, it is trivial to guess.

OTOH, in Maple, once you have learned a part of the language, you know much less. Every new function that you learn has a different unguessable abbreviation.

Plus at conferences, the Maple people don't smile a lot. And Jerry Uhl has better parties. :-)

If you know of any real advantages to Maple, other than the fact that it is included in the student software package, please let me know EMAIL me at morley@math.gatech.edu. I am serious about this, and am willing to listen.

• Floor
• Absolute Values
• Limits
• Definition of Derivatives and it use.

NewStuff

• Rules for differentiation
  • Sum of derivative
  • The derivative of a constant times a function
  • Product Rul
  • Quotient rule
• Drawing derivatives from pictures of functions.

So.. what do you have to know for the quiz?

• The definition of a derivative
• Using the definition of a derivative to calculate derivatives.
• The uses of the derivative:
  • slope of tangents
  • Limite s of slopes of secants
  • velocity
  • rates of change
  • etc.....
  • etc.....
  • etc ....
• Computing limits
• "Filling in" functions so that they are continuous
• And surely some stuff I've forgoten to write down here ...

• Section 1.5, page 94, Numbers 1,3,5,19,21,*23
• Section 1.6, page 111, Numbers 1,3,7,6,11,13

If there are any questions the simpliest way to get a hold of me is: morley@bmtc.mindspring.com

Grading

• 4 or 5 quizes given on Tuesdays or Thursdays. Each 1/2 hour. The lowest will be dropped. 55%
• One hour quiz given the fourth week. Counts as 2 quizes, and is included in the 55% above.
• Computer assignments. Two. For a total of 10%
• Homework. Collected by the TA and checked 10%
• Final exam. Date is set by the registrar's office. Be sure and take this into consideration before you book plane tickets to leave town. 25%

• p.8 #39
• p.14 #14
• p.21 #23
• p.36 #46
• p.45 #22

Course Outline

• Review of some topics in algebra. Sections 0.1-0.5
• Limits and Derivatives. Sections 1.1-1.8
• More about derivatives. Sections 2.1-2.7
• Applications of the derivative. Sections 3.1-3.7
• Conic Sections and polar coordinates. Sections 8.1-8.3. 8-5-8.6
• Complex Numbers. Section A5

Suggested problems from Chapter 0.

• page 8, numbers 39,40
• page 14, numbers 12,13,14,18
• page 21, numbers 3,5,7,23,39,49
• page 36, numbers 32,33,46
• page 45, numbers 9, 11, 13, 18, 22, 26

Suggested Problems from Chapter 1

• Page 66, Numbers 55, 56,59,61,63,83,85
• Page 168, Numbers 25,27,29 (The example done is class is from this section)

General comments: I realize that some of you all have have calculus before. This is a good, right and proper thing, and my sister Mary mmorley@ets.org would approve. There will be considerable overlap between AP calculus and this course. But the pupose of this course is not the same as AP calculus:

The mechanics of calculation, by hand, calculator, or computer are still important, but not in and of themselves. They are tools.

There is no such thing as a stupid question. Yell them out!

If something confuses you, raise you hand and shout out to the world that the person sitting next to you doesn't understand! :-)

If you have not had Calculus before, that is also OK. Rest assured that this course does not presume any knowledge from AB or BC calculus.

Welcome to Mathematics 1507 First Quarter Calculus

Tom Morley morley@math.gatech.edu

Office Skiles 263. Available MWF 9-10 am and other times. Drop by. Old Tests (In Mathematica 3.0 Format)

• Quiz 2
• Quiz 1
• Quiz 6 Nov
• Test 1 October 16
• December 1 Quiz

• Page 131 Chapter 1 Review: 3,5,11,13,14
• Page 178 Chapter 2 Review: 1,3,5,7,9,25,27,33,37
• Page 261 Chapter 3 Review: 1,3,5,15,17,19,20,23,25,26,31,33
• Page 593 Chapter 8 Review: 1,3,11,13,17,19,23,25,43,45,49,51

• page 223: 1,3,5,7,9,25,27,29,33,35,43
• page 238: 3,5,7,16,17,18
• Page 153: 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28
• Page 159: 13,15,25,26
• Page 167: 17,19,21,27,29,34,35
• page 173: 17,19,21,35,*37,39,40
• page 178: Chapter 2 Review 1,3,5,7,15,17,21,23,27,29,31,27
• page 184: 7,8,9,11,12,15,18,20,24,25
• page 196: 19,21,22,29
• page 204: 23 (Important!), 25,27,28
• page 212: 1,3,5,17,18
• Section 1.5, page 94, Numbers 1,3,5,19,21,*23
• Section 1.6, page 111, Numbers 1,3,7,6,11,13

To get a hold of me:

email: morley@math.gatech.edu

Or morley@bmtc.mindspring.com

Y'all come back now, 'ya hear?