MATH-1400-ES31

Welcome to the home page for section ES31 of MATH-1400 (Applied Calculus) at Southeast Community College in the Fall term of 2012. I am Toby Bartels, the instructor.

Administration

Here are some useful links for the administration of the course:

Contact information (to get in touch with me);
Tutoring information (for outside help);
Grading (how the class is graded);
Schedule (the material that we'll cover);
Downloading help (if you have trouble reading some of the files here);
Your current grade (on Moodle, where you must log in).

Assignments

If you miss a homework assignment, then you can find it here. Eventually the solutions to most homework and the exam will show up here too.

Attendance (taken every day);
Homework (assigned nearly every day);
Final exam (December 11 Tuesday).

Although only homework and the final exam contribute directly to your grade, attendance is also important.

Resources

The official textbook for the course is the 12th Edition of Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences published by Prentice-Hall (Pearson). You should be able to get this at the bookstore, and some homework problems will come from it.

However, I plan to approach the basic concepts of calculus using infinitesimal differentials, because this is easier and closer to the way calculus is actually used, compared to the approach taken by the textbook (which is based on limits). A nice textbook that takes the same approach as I do is Calculus Made Easy (Silvanus Thompson, 1910), which you can read free online (although the language is a bit old-fashioned and British).

I also have some notes for lectures, hand-outs, and so forth. If you missed class, then you might be able to find a substitute here. But there is no guarantee that everything will show up!

Links:

Calculus Made Easy.
Introduction (from October 2 Tuesday).
Summary of differential calculus (handed out on October 9 Tuesday): DjVu format, PDF format.
Rules of differentiation (handed out on October 11 Thursday): DjVu format, PDF format.
Limits (handed out on October 23 Tuesday): DjVu format, PDF format.
Exponents and logarithms (handed out on November 1 Thursday): DjVu format, PDF format.
Integrals (handed out on November 8 Thursday): DjVu format, PDF format.
A handy website to find indefinite integrals is integrals.wolfram.com, but see also my warnings about that site.
That's it!

This web page and the files linked from it were written between 2003 and 2012 by Toby Bartels, last edited on 2012 December 3. Toby reserves no legal rights to them.

The permanent URI of this web page is http://tobybartels.name/MATH-1400/2012FA/.