Calculus 1A Student Handout Revised 1 16 09 Spring 2009 TTh 3 30am 5 00pm Room 105 Stanley Hall Instructor Professor Zvezdelina Stankova Office Evans 713 Tel 510 642 3768 Office hours TTh 2pm 3 30pm E mail stankova math berkeley edu Webpage http www math berkeley edu stankova Questions on Enrolment Barbara Peavy Office Evans 967 E mail peavy math berkeley edu Prerequisites Three and a half years of high school mathematics Discussion Sections Each student will be assigned to a discussion section The discussion sections as well as lectures are mandatory Textbooks Stewart Single Variable Calculus edition Early Transcendentals for UC Berkeley 2008 Centage Learning This is a special version of the textbook prepared exclusively for the UCB Math Dept check the UCB bookstore for its availability The correct edition is essential for getting the correct homework assignment and class material Homework HW will be posted on the web every week If you miss lecture do NOT e mail instructor or GSI to ask for missed handouts and announcements Instead ask your classmates HWs will not be graded or collected but must be done by the following Wednesday Homework solutions will be posted on the web a day before the quiz Do not ask for solutions to be posted earlier you must attempt to do your homework without help from posted solutions Quizzes There will be approximately 12 quizzes in the discussion sections usually given on Wednesdays The lowest two quiz scores will be dropped when determining a student s final grade If you miss discussion sections when a quiz is taken you cannot retake the quiz in other section and your quiz score will be 0 Thus when you miss discussion sections for whatever reasons including being sick or having a family emergency keep in mind that only two quiz scores will be dropped and no further quiz scores will be dropped regardless of your reasons No exceptions will be made to this policy please do not bring to me or to your TA notes to be excused from quizzes The quizzes will be based on the current or previous homework assignments For a student joining the course late no quiz scores will be dropped All quizzes from the time when the student 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 Tue February 17 and Thur April 2 3 30 5 00pm a final exam on Thursday May 21 12 30 3 30pm no make up midterms or final exams Every student must take the midterms and the final exam on these dates and at these times no exceptions Do not buy tickets to leave before or to come after an exam you must be here at the 3 exams dates above Do not take this class if you have conficts with any of this exam schedule Do not ask for earlier dates for the final due to flight reservations or other reasons the final exams times are assigned campus wide and there will be no personal exceptions A substantial portion of the exams will be based on homework assignments Exams are not comprehensive The topics for each exam will be based on the portion of the course between exams Yet you cannot forget previous material since parts of it may come up in the solutions 1 Grading Grades are computed by taking 15 quizzes 25 each midterm 35 final The letter grades will based on a curve Please consult the bonus credit appendix for more information and specific examples If you miss one of the midterms due to a documented reason the following adjustment will be made in calculating your grade 15 quizzes 35 other midterm 50 final A documented reason means an official document on letterhead dated and with appropriate signatures such documents must be submitted within a week of the missed midterm or else they will not be accepted and you will receive 0 points on the missed midterm If you miss one of the midterms due to a undocumented reason your final grade will be computed as 15 quizzes 0 the missed 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 are provided 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 documented serious medical problem or a genuine personal family emergency Falling behind in this course or problems with 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 DSS document and you must contact me via e mail or in office hours at least 10 days prior to each exam explaining your 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 Do NOT ask to be given special accommodations promising that in the future you will provide a DSS note the note must be provided 10 days prior to the exam Please observe this policy no exceptions will be made Reading 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 substitutes for regular problems they are usually harder and designed to provide extra challenge Your final grade will be calculated via the above formulas using only your regular scores After that all the bonus credit from exams will be added up separately Depending on what portion of the total bonus credit you have and on my estimate of the difficulty of the overall assigned bonus work your final grade may go up a step However I reserve the right to be the sole judge of how much if at all any bonus work can boost one s grade Please don t make a big issue of bonus problems there are only 3 4 bonus exam problems throughout the whole semester Your midterm letter grades will be first determined based on your regular problems and then I will decide if any bonus credit is enough to increase your letter grade The important thing to remember is that the midterm letter grades will