MATH-1400-ES31

Welcome to the home page for section ES31 of MATH-1400 (Applied Calculus) at Southeast Community College in the Spring term of 2013. 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 some solutions to graded homework will show up here too.

Attendance (taken every day);
Homework (assigned nearly every day);
Final exam (June 7 Friday).

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 most homework problems will come from it. If you pay for it, you can also use MyMathLab with Course ID bartels48875; this is optional.

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 lecture notes, hand-outs, links, 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!

Official college syllabus: DjVu format, PDF format.
MyMathLab using Course ID bartels48875.
Calculus Made Easy.
Introduction (from April 1 Monday).
Summary of differential calculus (handed out on April 10 Wednesday): DjVu format, PDF format.
Rules of differentiation (handed out on April 12 Friday): DjVu format, PDF format.
Limits (from April 29 and May 1).
Exponents and logarithms (from May 20 Monday).
Integrals (handed out on May 29 Wednesday): DjVu format, PDF format.
That's it!

This web page and the files linked from it (except for the official college syllabus) were written between 2003 and 2013 by Toby Bartels, last edited on 2013 June 4. Toby reserves no legal rights to them.

The permanent URI of this web page is http://tobybartels.name/MATH-1400/2013SP/.