The final exam is on Monday 19 Novermber, 2-5pm in Salomon 101 (upstairs).
There will be review sessions on Friday 9 and Wednesday 14 December, same place and time as lectures. Please email me questions you'd like to see covered. To find me at other times, either try my office (B&H 540) or email me.
Prof Silverman has posted a review sheet and the answers to the last few homework sets.
The course text is James Stewart, Single Variable Calculus : Early Transcendentals, Vol. 1, 5th Edition, ISBN 0534496784.
Lectures are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday 12-12:50pm (E hour), in Barus & Holley room 153.
Recitations are on Tuesdays. The list of times, groups, and rooms is over here.
My office is Barus & Holley room 540, office hours are:
Friday 2-3pm
Tuesday 2:30-3:30pm
You can email me at michael_abbott@brown.edu,
and the office phone number is 863-2461.
There will be homework assigned at every lecture. Most of what you learn will be from doing the homework, and every week builds upon the last. To encourage you to do it, and to keep up, all homework is due at the next lecture. No late homework will be accepted. And it must be stapled, please. The list of problems is here, this also gives a detailed breakdown of what the course will cover.
There will be two mid-term exams and a final:
The grading for this course is Satisfactory / No Credit only. The breakdown
of the grade is as follows:
Homework sets: 10%
Recitation quizzes: 5%
Exam 1: 20%
Exam 2: 25%
Final Exam: 40%
A rough outline of material to be covered is as follows: review of logs and exponentials, limits and derivatives, rules for derivatives, applications of differentiation, integration, applications of integration.
As you can see, getting an A on every homework set is far less important than understanding material for the final. You are encouraged to work on the homework with friends, but would be a fool to let someone else solve all the problems. (Please write the names of people you worked with on the homework you hand in.) Not handing in one or two homework sets is very unlikely to affect your grade.
New material will be covered in every lecture, so if you miss a class, make sure you read and understand what we did on that day.
The recitation meetings are a good opportunity to ask questions, learn from others' questions, and see examples worked out in full. There will be unannounced quizzes to encourage you to attend.
In addition to my office hours and the TA's office hours, a good place to get help is the Mathematics Resource Centre, which runs most evenings in Kasser House.
Professor Silverman is in charge of the whole MA 9 course, his course website is here.
Department of Mathematics / Course Schedule
Last updated 9 December, 2005