Mathematics 151, Sections 513-515, Fall 2011

Engineering Mathematics I

Last updated Mon 5 Dec 2011

Announcements (reverse chronological order)

• Mon 12/5: I will not have an office hour today. I expect to be here Wednesday and Thursday afternoons (Dec. 7 and 8).
• Thu 12/1: The last day for the help sessions is Thursday night, Dec. 8. Also, there will be a final exam review Thursday, Dec. 8, 1-3 pm, HELD 100. Ms. Austin will be working problems found here.
• Fri 11/18: Help sessions for M251 and below will run next week on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights, but not Wednesday night. They will resume the Sunday night after Thanksgiving, in time for common exams.
• Thu 11/17: Calclab open hours will close on TUESDAY 22 November at 10pm for the Thanksgiving holiday. Hours will resume SUNDAY 27 November at 7pm, i.e., there are no Calclab open hours Wednesday 7-10pm, Thursday 7-10pm, or Sunday 1-7pm during the holiday.
• Fri 11/11: Next Monday (11/14) office hour will start at 4:00 (or slightly later), not 3:00.
• Sun 10/16: This week's Wednesday office hour will be at 3, not 4 (10/19). Thursday office hour is cancelled (10/20).
• Fri 9/16: The rooms for the common exam have been announced: see below. This is not your usual room, for lecture, lab, or recitation! Also, remember to bring your Scan-Trons to Mr. Kogan before the first exam.
• Thu 9/8: If you are having trouble with "No Machine" (NX), read the NEW video "Black Screen with NX? Try This" added to the lab schedule page (linked below).

Course ``handout'' (syllabus) (This contains detailed information about class times, grading policies, etc.)
Please see my home page for up-to-date office hours.

Home page for the entire course (Go here for additional detailed information about policies that affect all of Math 151.)
Approximate weekly schedule

WebAssign on-line homework system
Information about WebAssign and the electronic textbook (You have already paid for the e-book through the course fee. You get access to if through the WebAssign system.)

Maplets home page
Lab schedule

Week in Review and Help Session schedules
Help Sessions for Math 151 (and 131 and 171): Sunday-Thursday 8-10 p.m., BLOC 166

Common exam room schedule
You are required to bring four 815E Scan-Trons in advance. Bring these to Mr. Kogan ASAP.
Past common exams for practice

Class home page from the last time I taught this course (That semester my section was on-line, so procedures will be different this time. However, my lectures will probably follow closely the projector slides that are there.)

Lecture slides so far

• Introductory pep talk
• Sections 1.1 and 1.2 (Vectors and the Dot Product)
• Sections 1.3, 2.2, and 2.3 (Functions and Limits)
• Sections 2.5 and 2.6 (Infinity and Continuity)
• Sections 3.1-3.3 (Derivatives)
• Sections 3.4-3.5 (Trig Functions and Chain Rule)
• Sections 3.6-3.9 (Derivative Miscellany I)
• Sections 3.10-3.12 (Derivative Miscellany II)
  • Maple session on differentials
  • Maple session on Newton's method
• Sections 4.1-4.2 (Exponentials and Inverse Functions)
• Sections 4.3-4.4 (Logarithms)
  • More fun with logarithms
• Sections 4.5-4.8 (Derivative Miscellany III)
  • l'Hopital's rule and 0^0
  • Hyperbolic functions versus secants (Perhaps better to come back here next semester.)
• Sections 5.1-5.3 (Analysis of Functions)
• Sections 5.5 and 5.7 (Optimization Problems and Antiderivatives)
• Sections 6.1-6.2 (Sums and Areas)
• Sections 6.3-6.4 (Definite Integrals and the Fundamental Theorem)

Go to home pages: Fulling ._._. Kogan ._._. Calclab ._._. Math Dept ._._. University

e-mail: fulling@math.tamu.edu