Spring 2009 Math 220 Section BL1


Course Information

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 4-4:50pm in Altgeld 143.

TA Office Hours:
Ping Xu (Sections BD1 and BD2): Monday, Wednesday 2-3pm in B2 Coble Hall.
Hyunchul Park (Section BD4): Tuesday 10-10:50am in 341 Illini Hall.
John Lenz (Section BD6): Monday 11-11:50am in B1A Coble Hall.
Chayapa Darayon (Section BD7): Wednesday 4-4:50pm in B1 Coble Hall.

Students are encouraged to attend office hours for any TA, not just their own.

Course Syllabus

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Some Final Exam Information

Tentative Calendar

Homework

HW 1: Sections 0.1-0.4 due Thursday, January 29.
HW 2: Sections 0.5-0.6, 1.1-1.3 due Thursday, February 5.
HW 3: Sections 1.4-1.5 due Tuesday, February 10.
HW 4: Sections 2.1-2.3 due Thursday, February 19.
HW 5: Sections 2.4-2.6 due Thursday, February 26.
HW 6: Sections 2.7-2.9 due Tuesday, March 3.
HW 7: Sections 3.1-3.2 due Thursday, March 12.
HW 8: Sections 3.3-3.5 due Thursday, March 19.
HW 9: Sections 3.6-3.8 due Tuesday, March 31.
HW 10: Sections 4.1-4.2 due Thursday, April 9.
HW 11: Sections 4.3-4.5 due Thursday, April 16.
HW 12: Sections 4.6-4.8 due Tuesday, April 21.
HW 13: Sections 5.1-5.2 due Thursday, April 30.
HW 14: Sections 5.3-5.5 due Tuesday, May 5.

Exams

Exam Schedule:

Exam 1 - Friday, February 13
Exam 2 - Friday, March 6
Exam 3 - Friday, April 3
Exam 4 - Friday, April 24

All exams begin promptly at 3pm in our normal lecture room.

The Exam Rules can be found here.

Study Guide 1.
Practice Exam 1. Don't look at the Practice Exam 1 solutions before working them out yourself, you will get a lot more out of working through it than just looking at the answers.

Solutions to the Exam: Purple version and Yellow version.
Information on exam questions.
Exam 1 curve.

Study Guide 2.
Practice Exam 2. Don't look at the Practice Exam 2 solutions before working them out yourself, you will get a lot more out of working through it than just looking at the answers.

Solutions to the Exam: Pink version and Green version.
Information on exam questions.
There is no curve for Exam 2.

Study Guide 3.
Practice Exam 3. Don't look at the Practice Exam 3 solutions before working them out yourself, you will get a lot more out of working through it than just looking at the answers.

Solutions to the Exam: Purple version and Yellow version.
Information on exam questions.

Study Guide 4.
Practice Exam 4. Don't look at the Practice Exam 4 solutions before working them out yourself, you will get a lot more out of working through it than just looking at the answers.

Solutions to the Exam: Blue version and Orange version.
Information on exam questions.

Final Exam Study Guide.

Math Department Free Tutoring

The tutoring is in the basement of Illini Hall in Room 1 from 7-9pm Monday through Thursday. Not all entrances to Illini Hall are open in the evening, students should use the John St entrance.

Consolidated Tutoring and Office Hours schedule.

Examples and Other Material

A graph of sine and inverse sine on the same axes.
An example of various transformations of a function.
The picture at the top right of this link explains why hyperbolic trigonometric functions have hyperbolic in their name.
Another example of transformations of a function.
A version of the Quotient Rule song.
A large collection of differentiation practice problems. Through 2.6, through 2.9. (borrowed from Dr. Kim Whittlesey)
A help sheet on trigonometric identities.
A few comments about a derivative question from the review session on March 4.
A video that answers the question do dogs know calculus?
An optimization example concerning the dog in the link above.
An example of calculus being applied to Economics.
Another optimization example.
A note on the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

Math 220 Links

ALEKS Requirements

Math Department Homepage

Math Department Tutoring Services

Business Department Tutoring

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive

MathWorld

Numerical Integrator

William Green's Homepage