Math 1309-004
TTh 2:00-3:20
123 Fondren Science
Instructor: Mrs. Judy NewellPhone: 214/768-3243
Office: 208A Clements Hall Email:
10:00-11:00 MWF TA: Meg Whaley 217 Clements
12:00-2:00 MW Webpage: smu.edu/math/jnewell/jnewell.html
1:00-2:00 TTh
Grading: Quizes 10% Tests 60% Final Exam 30%
Help Sessions: MTWTh, Room 225 Clements Hall, 4:30-7:20pm
Important Dates:
Jan. 19: University Holiday, MLK Day Test #1:Feb.12
Mar. 9-13: Spring Break Test #2: Mar.5
Apr. 8: Last Day to Drop Test #3: Mar. 31
Apr. 10: University Holiday, Good Friday Test #4: Apr.16
May 5: Reading Day Final Exam: May 6,3:00-6:00 pm
Class Policies: 1. Out of respect for your classmates, you are expected to be in class on time.
Attendance will be taken at the beginning of class. Do not leave until dismissed.
Do not talk unless to ask a question.
2. You must adhere to the SMU Honor Code.
3. Students with learning differences should contact Rebecca Marin, Coordinator of Students with Learning Differences, at 214-768-4557. You shouldthen notify me so that appropriate accommodations can be arranged.
4. No late quizzes will be accepted. No make-up tests will be given.
5. Religiously observant students wishing to absent on holidays should notify the professor at the beginning of the semester and discuss acceptable ways of making up missed work.
6. Students participating in any sanctioned University extracurricular activity that requires missing class should notify the professor at the beginning of the semester and discuss acceptable ways of making up missed work.
Textbook: Finite Math & Calculus for Business Majors; Custom Edition for SMU; Barnett, Ziegler and Byleen; Pearson Custom Publishing.
Goals:
- Students will be able to differentiate polynomials, rational functions, exponentials, logarithms, products, quotients and compositions of functions.
- Students will be able to find limits of functions, including the ability to apply L’Hopital’s Rule.
- Students will be able to solve optimization problems including setting up the equations, solving them and analyzing the results.
- Students will be able to apply first and second derivative tests and concavity to curve sketching.
- Students will be able to find antiderivatives of simple functions including the use of the substitution rule.
- Students will be able to find the average of a continuous function.
- Students will be able o find left and right Riemann sums.
- Students will be able to compute simple and compound interest and present and future values of annuities.
Unit I: Limits and The Derivative (approximately four weeks)
Introduction to Limits
Continuity
Infinite Limits and Limits at Infinity
The Derivative
Basic Differentiation Properties
Marginal Analysis in Business and Economics
Unit II: Additional Derivative Topics (approximately three weeks)
Derivatives of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Derivatives of Products and Quotients
The Chain Rule
Implicit Differentiation
Related Rates
Unit III: Graphing and Optimization (approximately two and one-half weeks)
First Derivative and Graphs
Second Derivative and Graphs
L’Hopital’s Rule
Absolute Maxima and Minima
Optimization
Unit IV: Integration (approximately three weeks)
Antiderivatives and Indefinite Integrals
Integration by Substitution
The Definite Integral
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Area between Curves
Unit V: Mathematics of Finance and Integration Applications in Business and Economics (approximately 2 weeks)
Simple Interest
Compound and Continuous Compound Interest
Future Value of an Annuity; Sinking Funds
Present Value of Annuity; Amortization
Integration Applications in Business and Economics