Calculus 1A: Student Handout. Revised 1/16/09Spring 2009, TTh 3:30am - 5:00pm, Room 105 Stanley HallInstructor: Professor Zvezdelina StankovaOffice: Evans 713, Tel: (510) 642-3768Office hours: TTh 2pm-3:30pmE-mail: [email protected]: http://www.math.berkeley.edu/∼stankova/Questions on Enrolment: Barbara Peavy, Office: Evans 967, E-mail: [email protected]: 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 aslectures, are mandatory.Textbooks: Stewart, “Single Variable Calculus”, edition: Early Transcendentals for UC Berkeley, 2008, CentageLearning. This is a special version of the textbook, prepared exclusively for the UCB Math De pt – check the UCBbookstore for its availability. The correct edition is essential for getting the correct homework assignment andclass 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 postedearlier: 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. Thelowest 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 inother 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 b e droppedregardless of your reasons. No exceptions will be made to this policy: please, do not bring to me or to your TAnotes 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 notask 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. Donot 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 notask for earlier dates for the final due to flight reservations or other reasons: the final examstimes are assigned campus-wide and there will be no personal exceptions.A substantial p ortion of the exams will b e based on homework assignments.• Exams are not comprehensive. The topics for each exam will be based on the portion of thecourse between exams. Yet you cannot forget previous material since parts of it may come up in the solutions.1Grading: Grades are computed by taking 15% quizzes, 25% each midterm, 35% final. The letter grades willbased on a curve. Please, consult the bonus credit appendix for more information and sp ecific examples.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 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 themidterms due to a undocumented reason, your final grade will be computed as: 15% quizzes, 0% the missedmidterm, 25% the other midterm, 35% final. Note that a conflict with othe r exams, classes or activities will notbe considered a reasonable excuse for missing a midterm.• Missing both midterms, or missing the final exam, will result in automatic failureof the course,unless valid reasons are provided for requesting an incomplete grade. Please, consult the university policiesregarding incomplete grades. Note that incomplete “I” grades are almost never given. The only justification foran 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 w ith a disability registered by the Disabled Student Services (DSS)on UCB campus, and if you require special arrangements during exams, you must provide m e with the DSSdocument 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 daysin advance, you will have to take the exam along with everyone else and under the regular conditions provided forthe class. Please,• Do NOT ask to be given special accommodations, promising that in the futureyou 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 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. Depending 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. However, I reserve theright 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 problemsthroughout the whole semester.Your midterm letter grades will be first