MATH 249 (L01)

• 2011-12-14 Wed 20:43 Question 23 in the sample multiple choice questions I posted has an error. The equation should read 2x y² + 2(x²+1) e^y = 6 + 3 ln x.
• 2011-12-14 Wed 19:48 The solutions to the practice final are here.
• 2011-12-09 Fri 09:30 I will be holding office hours next week in MS431, on Wednesday from 2:30-4:00pm and on Friday from 10:00-11:00am.
• 2011-12-07 Wed 17:38 Prof. Laflamme has prepared a practice final exam (solutions to come later) and a review sheet you might find useful.
• 2011-12-06 Tue 15:28 I have put together a set of multiple-choice questions (and a copy with the answers) for you to use as practice for the final exam. The actual exam will have 30 questions.
• 2011-12-05 Mon 16:16 SCUM (the Society for Calgary Undergraduate Mathematicians) will be running two review sessions for math 249 and 251. The details are as follows:

Dates: Monday, December 12, 1:00-4:00 p.m., ST 145 & Thursday, December 15, 1:00-4:00 p.m., ST 145

Cost: Students must purchase a membership to attend. This entitles them to an unlimited number of review session, i.e. for any course, during both the fall and winter semesters. At the door: $10 In advance: $5 (Can be purchased at the SCUM office MS 337A, open Mon.-Fri. 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.)

It's advisable for students to arrive a bit in advance, since the room has a limited capacity.

• 2011-12-05 Mon 16:15 My office hour on Tuesday has been moved to Wednesday 9-10am.
• 2011-11-25 Fri 09:47 The answer keys for the multiple choice questions are below

• 2011-11-16 Wed 10:38 I will hold an extra office hour this afternoon at from 4:30-5:30 in MS365.
• 2011-11-13 Sun 13:04 The solutions to the midterm have been updated.
• 2011-11-10 Thu 12:39 We have created a practice midterm, which you can find here. Solutions are also available. Please note that this practice exam should not be used as a tool to predict what questions will appear on the actual midterm.
• 2011-11-09 Wed 10:48 The review notes I made in class today are here.
• 2011-11-07 Mon 09:14 The upcoming midterm will cover Chapter 2 Sections 5-8, Chapter 3 Sections 1-7, 9 of the textbook.
• 2011-10-28 Fri 11:29 Prof. Laflamme has prepared solutions to version 0 of the recent midterm exam. (The other midterms are similar.)
• 2011-10-26 Wed 13:42 When you get your exams back, you may want to know which multiple-choice questions you got right, and which wrong. In order for you to determine that, here is a table containing the answer keys for each version.

• 2011-10-26 Wed 13:23 I have posted an extra assignment on WebAssign - not for credit - with questions covering sections 2.7, 2.8 and 3.1.
• 2011-10-26 Wed 13:19 The preliminary scale translation of percentages into grades is given below.

• 2011-10-17 Mon 17:15 I've relented, and am posting up solutions to the practice midterm (courtesy of Dr. Bauer). (Note that there were a couple of small corrections to the practice exam as originally posted.)
• 2011-10-14 Fri 07:23 If you want a guide to what topics to focus on for the midterm, Prof. Laflamme has prepared one for his MATH 251 section (taking the same midterm as you), which you will find here.
• 2011-10-12 Wed 13:40 A practice midterm is now available. The exam will be in ICT 102. You should arrive by 7pm, but you will need to wait outside the room until you are told you may enter (it will take us a few minutes to get the room ready and distribute the exams).
• 2011-10-06 Thu 18:20 I will be holding office hours on Tuesdays 11-12 and Fridays 9-10.
• 2011-09-21 Wed 10:17 Classroom change: Lab B01 has been changed from MS 371 to KNB129 starting today (September 21, 2011).
• 2011-09-20 Tue 21:12 If you're wondering about applications of some of the functions we'll be looking at in tomorrow's lecture, you might want to check this out.
• 2011-09-20 Tue 21:03 Classroom change: Lab B02 has been changed from MS 325 to ST 064 starting tomorrow (September 21, 2011).
• 2011-09-19 Mon 18:23 For those of you who have been unable to get hold of a hybrid copy of the text from the bookstore, there is a grace period during which you can sign up for and use WebAssign for free. Go along to one of the office hours with Krista (below) to find out more.
• 2011-09-15 Thu 15:56 Krista Reese from Nelson Education will provide office hours next week for any of you looking for help getting started with WebAssign. These will be in MS317 on Tuesday September 20th 11am-1pm and on Wednesday September 21st 9:15-11:15am.
• 2011-09-11 Sun 14:46 If you accessed this site before this time, some of the information about assignments and midterm dates would have been incorrect. Please note that the midterm dates are as currently listed (October 19th and November 16th).
• 2011-09-10 Sat 12:44 The first week's lecture notes are available from the links in the calendar below.
• 2011-09-10 Sat 12:44 Schedules for the Calculus Connections programme, and for the continuous tutorials are now available.

All references to future events should be taken as provisional.

The links "p:c:s" refer to `plain', `compact' and `spread' versions of the week's lecture notes, respectively.

• Lectures take place in KNB132 (look on the interactive map), MWF 08:00-08:50 and T 12:30-13:20.
• The course text is Stewart, Single Variable Calculus, Early Transcendentals (7th Ed.). This comes in various formats. Make sure you get one of the ones with Enhanced WebAssign (EWA).
  • Paperback hybrid + Electronic + EWA ISBN 1111426708 Price: $89.95
  • Hardcover + Electronic + EWA ISBN 1111649987 Price: $149.95
  • Electronic + EWA ISBN 0538738073 Price: $78.95
• Enhanced WebAssign (http://www.webassign.net) is where you will complete your weekly assignments (10% of your final grade). You will find an EWA access code in each of the 3 packages above, allowing you to register to EWA at the following site:
  • URL: http://www.webassign.net
  • Class Key: *see blackboard announcement*
  • Phone support: (800) 955-8275, then press 1
  • Email support: student_help@webassign.net
  • Web support: http://www.webassign.net/user_support/student
• The department offers continuous tutorials to help you prepare for assignments, midterms and finals. They run Monday-Thursday from 11-4 and F from 11-2 in MS 365.
• Calculus Connections (schedule) is a (free) supplementary series of sessions designed to reinforce your learning of calculus.
• I will hold office hours in MS 586: Tuesdays 11-12 and Fridays 9-10.
• Labs: all students are registered for one of the labs below; these will begin in the second week of term.

• Syllabus
• Course outline
• Department course listing

• Assignments (10%)

These will run on EWA and must be submitted before midnight on the due dates listed below. There will be an extra (not credit) assignment after the end of term (to help you prepare for the final). The sections covered are as follows.

• Midterms (40%)

There will be a two midterm exams. These will take place in the evenings on October 19 and November 15, from 7-9pm. They will be 90-minute exams, and will cover the material shown below.

• Final exam (50%)

This will be a multiple-choice, 2-hour exam, and will take place after the end of term, as scheduled by the registrar.

• Good advice
  • Math study skills
• Tutorials
  • The Kahn Academy has hundreds of YouTube lectures covering calculus and many other subjects. Bill Gates is a fan. Now you can access it on iTunes (direct link to the calculus tutorials).
  • Calculus lifesaver - videos of review lectures given by Adrian Banner at Princeton.
  • Resources from an MIT OpenCourseWare Calculus course. Some great java applets to play around with here. (The course home page is here.)
  • calculus.org
• Online Quizzes

Terence Tao (and others) have created a bunch of quizzes you can use to test your mathematical knowledge. In particular, the quiz on inequalities falls within the scope of what we study in this course.

• The BBC has an excellent collection of mathematics-related content, including discussions from their In Our Time programme (which you can also access as a podcast):
  • Random and pseudorandom
  • Imaginary numbers
  • Leibniz vs Newton - who first calculated the calculus?
  • Godel's Incompleteness Theorems - the dirty secrets of maths
  • Probability - heads or tails?
  • Newton's Laws of Motion - it is rocket science
  • Pythagoras
  • Ada Lovelace - prophet of the computer age
  • al-Biruni
  • The Fibonacci Sequence - the numbers in nature
  • Symmetry - the pattern at the heart of our physical world
  • Archimedes - the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments
  • Indian Maths - laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number
  • The Poincare Conjecture - how a 19th century mathematician changed how we think about the shape of the universe
  • Mathematics and Music - the science behind sound and composition
  • Negative numbers - how they spread across civilizations
  • Prime Numbers - the building blocks of mathematics
  • Renaissance Maths - the birth of modern mathematics?
  • Pi - the number that doesn't add up
  • Zero - everything about nothing
  • Cryptography - secret history of ciphers and codes
  • Chaos Theory - was the universe chaotic or orderly?
  • Mathematics' unintended consequences
• Miscellaneous links
  • Calculus Rhapsody: you really want to watch this!
  • Wikipedia entry on calculus. There's also a Wikibook on calculus.
  • The Mandelbrot set (just because I think everyone should see this at least once - in particular, this zoom sequence is incredible, and this one is even better). For all its complexity and beauty, it just comes from a sequence defined by a quadratic function!
  • Sir Isaac Newton - some interesting info about this intellectual giant.