Calculus 1A: Student Handout. Revised 1/18/04Spring 2004, TT 8:00am - 9:30pm, Room 2050 Valley LSBInstructor: Professor Zvezdelina StankovaOffice: Evans 713, Tel: (510) 642-3768, Office hours: TT 9:40-11:10amE-mail: [email protected], Webpage: http://www.math.berkeley.edu/∼stankova/Head TA: Michael West, Office: 1045 Evans, E-mail: [email protected] office hours: Tu, F 12:30-2pm.Extra office hours for first two weeks of classes: M 12-2pm, W 10am-1pm, Thur 10am-12pm.Prerequisites: Three and a half years of high school mathematics.Discussion Sections: Each student will be assigned to a discussion section. The discussion sessions, as well aslectures, are mandatory.Textbooks: Stewart, “Calculus: Early Transcendentals”, Brooks/Cole, 5th edition, 2003, or its abbreviated versionsold through UCB bookstores and containing only materials for Calculus 1A and 1B.Homework: See the list of weekly Homework assignments be low. HWs will not be graded or collected, but willbe due on Wednesdays. H omework solutions will be distributed in discussion sessions on Mondays.Quizzes: There will be approximately 12 quizzes in the discussion sections, usually given on Wednesdays. Thelowest two quiz scores will be dropped when determining a student’s final grade. If you miss discussionsections when a quiz is taken, you cannot retake the quiz in other section, and your quiz scorewill be 0. Thus, when you miss discussion sessions (for whatever reasons, including being sick or having a familyemergency), keep in mind that only two quiz scores will be dropped. No exceptions will be made to this policy:please, do not bring to me or to your TA notes to be e xcuse d from quizzes. The quizzes will be based on thecurrent or previous homework assignment.For a student joining the course late: no quiz scores will be dropped; all quizzes from the time when thestudent joins the class will be counted towards the final grade. Thus, do not ask for exceptions to this policy.Exams: There will be two in–class midterm exams: on February 26, 8:00-9:30am, and April 8, 8:00-9:30am; and a final exam on May 22, Saturday, 8-11am. There will be no m ake-up midterms or finalexams. Every student must take the midterms and the final exam on these dates and at these times. There willbe no exceptions. Do not take this class if you have conficts with any of this exam schedule. Asubstantial p ortion of the exams will b e based on homework assignments.Grading: Grades are computed by taking 15% quizzes, 25% each midterm, 35% final. The final letter grades willnot be based on a “curve”, but on a score percentage cut–off scale, to be determined by me at the end of thesemester. Please , consult the bonus credit appendix for more information and specific e xamples.If you miss one of the midterms due to a documented reason, the following adjustment will be made incalculating your grade: 15% quizzes, 35% other midterm, 50% final. A documented reason means an officialdocument on letterhead, dated and with appropriate signatures; such doc uments must be submitted within aweek of the missed midterm, or else they will not be accepted and you will receive 0 points on the missedmidterm. If you miss one of the midterms due to a undocumented reason, your final grade will be computed as:15% quizzes, 0% the m isse d midterm, 25% the other midterm, 35% final. Note that a conflict with other exams,classes or activities will not be considered a reasonable excuse for missing a midterm. Missing both midterms,or missing the final exam, will result in automatic failure of the course, unless valid reasons areprovided for requesting an incomplete grade. Please, consult the university policies regarding incomplete grades.Note that incomplete “I” grades are almost never given. The only justification for an I grade is a documentedserious medical problem or a genuine personal/family emergency. Falling behind in this course or problemswith work load in other courses are not acceptable reasons.Special Arrangements: If you are a student with a disability registered by the Disabled Student Services (DSS)on UCB campus, and if you require special arrangements during exams, you must provide me with the DSSdocument and you must contact me via e-mail or in office hours at least 10 days prior to each exam, explainingyour circumstances and what special arrangements need to be done. If you do not contact me 10 days in advance,you will have to take the exam along with everyone else and under the regular conditions provided for the class.Please, observe this policy: no exceptions will be made.1Reading Assignments: It is the students’ responsibility to read carefully and thoroughly the assigned section(s)from the textbook and review their class notes after each class.Bonus Work: Exams will consist of regular problems and bonus problems. Bonus problems are not substitutesfor regular problems; they are usually harder and designed to provide extra challenge. Your final grade will becalculated via the above formulas using only your “regular” scores. After that, all the bonus credit from examswill be added up separately. De pe nding on what portion of the total bonus credit you have, and on my estimateof the difficulty of the overall assigned bonus work, your final grade may go up a step. In past experience, about25% of my students have benefitted from this bonus policy by completing a considerable part of the bonus work.However, I reserve the right to be the sole judge of how much (if at all) any bonus work can boost one’s grade.This raises a subtle point with the midterm letter grades, as midterms involve both regular and bonus problems.Again, I will first determine your letter grade based on your regular problems, and then I will decide if any bonuscredit is enough to increase your letter grade. The important thing to remember is that the midterm letter gradeswill disappear once I start calculating your final score, and that bonus credit can never dec rease your grade! Ishall not discuss bonus credit poli cy or grading policy with students throughout the semester.Thus, please, consult carefully the appendix for more detailed information on grading.Tentative Plan of the Course11. Jan 20 Preview of Calculus. Functions and Graphs2. Jan 22 Types of Functions and More on Graphs. Tangents to Graphs.3. Jan 27 Limits and Limit Laws4. Jan 29 Definition of Limit. Continuity5. Feb 3 Continuity Laws. Inifinite Limit Laws6. Feb 5 Tangents and