Math 17A, Fall 2018

Math 17A, Sections B01-B07
Fall Quarter 2018

Instructor: Professor Bob Guy
Office: MSB 2136
Email: guy@math.ucdavis.edu
Phone: 754-9201
Class webpage: www.math.ucdavis.edu/~guy/teaching/17a
Text: C. Neuhauser, Calculus for Biology and Medicine, 3rd Ed;
The text used in this course, Calculus for Biology and Medicine, by Neuhauser, is available as a low-cost online e-book through the UC Davis Inclusive Access Program. Online access to the text is optional. If you activate your access you have until the 10th day of instruction to change your mind and opt out before being billed. Please visit http://inclusiveaccess.ucdavis.edu for your access instructions, billing terms, and opt out information. For questions, please email the Inclusive Access Help Desk at inclusiveaccess@ucdavis.edu.

Teaching Assistants
Lead TA: Ben Schiffman, bcaschiffman@ucdavis.edu
The lead TA is responsible for the administration of the class. Please contact Ben with questions on adding, dropping, grading, etc.
Section B01, B04 : Hans Oberschelp, hoberschelp@ucdavis.edu
Sections B02, B03 : Adam Rose, arose@math.ucdavis.edu
Section B05 : Ning Liu, ningliu@math.ucdavis.edu
Section B06, B07 : Aslihan Kol, askol@ucdavis.edu

Office Hours

Prof. Guy	Monday 1:30-3:00, 2142 in Academic Surge Tuesday 12:00-1:30, 2142 in Academic Surge Friday 2:00-3:00, in 2136 MSB
Ben Schiffman, Lead TA	Wednesday 1:30-2:30 in MSB 3127
Hans Oberschelp*, Calc Room, 1317 Earth & Planetary Science	Wednesday 11-12 Friday 1-2
Adam Rose*, 1317 Earth & Planetary Science	Tuesday 11-12 Wednesday 11-12
Ning Liu*, 1317 Earth & Planetary Science	Tuesday 11-12
Aslihan Kol*, 1317 Earth & Planetary Science	Tuesday 11-1
Calc Room, 1317 Earth & Planetary Science	Monday 4 PM - 7 PM Tuesday 10 AM - 3 PM Wednesday 11 AM - 3 PM Thursday 1 PM - 7 PM Friday 1 PM - 6 PM

*TAs will be working in the Calculus room at these times. They will be helping students from all classes.

Discussion Sections
The discussion sections meet on Tuesdays. You must attend the discussion for which you are registered. In these sessions, you will take quizzes, and you will work in groups on discussion sheets. Discussion sheets will be turned in and graded.

Homework
Homework will be assigned daily, but it will not be collected or graded. It is up to you to keep up with assignments. Completing the homework is crucial for most students to do well in the course. If you need to do more problems than what I assign, do them. Do not fall behind on your homework because understanding new material requires that you understand previous sections. The quiz problems will be based on the homework.

Quizzes
In most weeks (see schedule below), there will be a short quiz (10-15 minutes) at the beginning of your discussion section. Your two lowest quiz scores will be dropped. There will be no make-up quizzes given for any reason. You must take the quiz in the discussion section for which you are registered.

Exams
We will have two midterm exams during the quarter and a comprehensive final exam. Make-up exams will only be given for university excused absences and must be arranged in advance with the lead TA and the instructor. The exam dates are given below so plan accordingly.

Midterm 1	Wednesday, October 24th
Midterm 2	~~Wednesday, November 28th~~ Wednesday, December 5th
Final Exam	Thursday Dec.13, 10:30 AM -12:30 PM

Grading
Your grade will be based on your performance on quizzes, midterms, and the final. The weights for each of these are as follows:

Discussion Sheets	10%
Quizzes (best 6 of 8)	15%
Midterm 1	20%
Midterm 2	20%
Final Exam	35%

Announcements

12/9 - Office hours for exam week
- Monday 10-11:30, MSB 3137, Adam Rose
- Monday 12-1, MSB 2137, Ning Liu
- Tuesday 10-12, MSB 3204, Hans Oberschelp
- Wednesday 1-3, Wellman 216, Prof. Guy
12/7 - Review session Wednesday, December 12th, 1:00-3:00 in Wellman 216.
12/3 - Topics for exam 2 were updated
11/30 - Topics for exam 2 are here
11/26 - Adjustments to class due to previous campus closure
- Midterm 2 has been rescheduled for Wednesday 12/5
- Quiz 6 will be on Tuesday 11/27; it covers 4.7, 4.8, 5.5
- Discussion sheets 5 and 6 are due in discussion on Tuesday 11/27
- We will finish the class with sections 5.1-5.4 (slightly compressed), and we will not cover 2.3 or 5.6
11/9 - Prof. Guy will not have office hours today, Friday, November 9th.
10/31 - If you think there is error in the grading on your midterm, contact lead TA Ben Schiffman in person or by email in the next two weeks. You must present a written request explaining exactly what you think the grading error is. If you email, include the word "regrade" in the subject line.
10/29 - Adam's office hours are now Tuesday and Wednesday 11-12.
Topics for exam 1 are here
Ben's office hours will be Wednesdays 1:30-2:30.
10/1 - Quiz 1 on Tuesday covers material from 1.1-1.2. In general quizzes will cover material from the previous week. They will not include new material from the Monday lecture the day before the quiz.
9/28 - Bring laptops to discussion on Tuesday. Install R or Rstudio programs or experiment with online interfaces for running R (see below). Read over the tutorial and experiment (see below).
- Online interfaces
  - https://rstudio.cloud/ Requires login, but you can use your UCD account or other google account. See instructions here.
  - https://rdrr.io/snippets/
  - https://rnotebook.io/
- Installation instructions for windows, mac.
- Tutorial

Schedule and Homework Assignments

week	day	topic	homework
week 1	W 9/26	1.1.2 Lines and linear equations	1.1 - 7, 15, 19, 29, 31, 45, 46, 52
week 1	F 9/28	1.2 Functions and applications	1.2 - 32, 42, 44, 56, 58, 59, 62, 65, 66, 68, 88 Try using R for graphing
week 2	M 10/1	1.3 Allometry and log-log graphs	1.3 - 85, 88, 89, 94 review R examples from class
	T 10/2	Discussion 1	Discussion sheet 1 Quiz 1
	W 10/3	1.3.2-1.3.3 log-log and log-linear graphs	1.3 - 67, 69, 73, 75, 84, 93, 95, 97
	F 10/5	2.1 discrete time models and 2.2.3 recursions	2.1 - 9, 17, 21, 31, 33, 37, 43, 49, 55 2.2 - 87, 85, 89 R examples from class
week 3	M 10/8	2.2 sequences and limits	2.2 - 20, 30, 32, 40, 43, 46, 49, 50, 73, 75, 77, 81, 99, 101, 103, 105, 106, 110
	T 10/9	Discussion 2	Discussion sheet 2 Quiz 2
	W 10/10	3.1 limits	3.1 - 5, 11, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 36, 43, 49, 50, 51
	F 10/12	finish 3.1 & 3.3 limits and limits at infinity	3.3 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27
week 4	M 10/15	3.4 trig limits and sandwich theorem	3.4 - 1, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 21
	T 10/16	Discussion 3	Discussion sheet 3 Quiz 3
	W 10/17	4.1 derivatives	4.1 - 3, 8, 13, 15, 21, 23, 26, 27, 38, 41, 70
	F 10/19	4.2 power rule, derivatives of polynomials	4.2 - 1-41 (pick some, practice as needed, be able to work with expressoins with constants as in 23-41), 47, 55, 57, 69, 74
week 5	M 10/22	4.3 product and quotient rules	4.3 - 1-16, 49-70 (pick some, practice as needed); 27, 35, 43, 47, 48, 78, 79, 85, 94
	T 10/23	Discussion 4	No quiz
	W 10/24	Exam 1	Topics for Exam 1
	F 10/26	4.4.1 chain rule	4.4 - 1-28 & 40-46 (pick some, practice as needed); 31, 33, 34, 37, 39
week 6	M 10/29	4.4.2-4.4.3 implicit differentiation, related rates, higher order derivatives	4.4 - 49, 51, 56, 59, 65, 69, 70, 71, 73, 75, 77, 86, 87
	T 10/30	Discussion 5	Discussion sheet 4 Quiz 4
	W 10/31	4.5 derivatives of trig functions	4.5 - 1-28 (pick some, practice as needed); 59, 60, 61, 62, 63
	F 11/2	derivatives of exponentials	4.6 - 1-52 (pick some, practice as needed); 53-56, 59, 65, 67, 71
week 7	M 11/5	4.7 derivative of logs, inverse functions	4.7 - 23-60 (practice as needed); 22, 67, 69, 73
	T 11/6	Discussion 6	Discussion sheet 5 Quiz 5
	W 11/7	4.8 linearization and error propagation	4.8 - 1, 7, 9, 15, 17, 21, 34, 39, 43, 45, 46, 47
	F 11/9	5.5 l'Hospital's rule	5.5 - 5, 7, 17, 19, 25, 27, 29, 31, 35, 51, 55, 57, 64
week 8	M 11/12	No Class
	T 11/13	Canceled
	W 11/14	Canceled
	F 11/16	Canceled
week 9	M 11/19	Canceled
	T 11/20	Canceled
	W 11/21	Canceled
	F 11/23	No Class
week 10	M 11/26	5.1.1, 5.1.2 extrema, and 5.2.1 monotonicity	5.1 - 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 21, 25, 29, 31 5.2 - 26, 28, 30
	T 11/27	Discussion 9	Discussion sheet 7 Quiz 6 - covers 4.7, 4.8, 5.5 Discussion sheet 6 due Discussion sheet 5 due
	W 11/28	5.2.2 concavity, begin 5.3 graphing	5.2 - 3, 5, 11, 14, 19, 21 5.3 - 5, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21
	F 11/30	5.3 extrema, inflection, and graphing	5.3 - 26, 27, 29, 33, 39, 44
week 11	M 12/3	finish 5.3, start 5.4 optimization	no new problems, study for exam
	T 12/4	Discussion 10	No Quiz
	W 12/5	Exam 2	Topics for Exam 2
	F 12/7	5.4 optimization	5.4 - 1, 7, 13, 17, 18, 21
finals week	Th 12/13	final exam, 10:30am-12:30pm