Saturday, August 25, 2007

MATH 141: HW Assignments, Quizzes, Exams


  • Aug 24: pp.12--14 [Probs. 1--24]
  • Aug 27: pp.36--39 [1, 15--18, 29, 30, 35--38, 40--44, 46, 53, 55, 61, 63, 71, 73, 74]
  • Aug 28: [Quiz #1, S09] [Quiz #1, S10]
  • Aug 29: p.49 [15--20]
  • Aug 31: p.51 [29, 30, 31, 33, 34] pp.74--75 [1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12b, 13, 14, 15]
  • Sep 04: [Quiz #2, S09] [Quiz #2, S10]
  • Sep 05: p.93 [1ab, 2ab, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 17]
  • Sep 07: pp.110--111 [1--6] pp.121--122 [1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30]
  • Sep 10: p.122 [34, 36] pp.131--132 [8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 26, 28, 34]
  • Sep 11: [Quiz #3, S09] [Quiz #3, S10]
  • Sep 12: pp.132--133 [44, 48, 50, 56, 58, 66, 67, 69, 70] p.153 [14, 16, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25]
  • Sep 14: pp.141--143 [9--16, 22, 30, 48, 60]
  • Sep 17: no HW today
  • Sep 18: Review Session
  • Sep 19: EXAM #1. (sections 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5). It will be a 50-minute test with 9 questions, one from each section taught. There will be at least one story problem.
  • Sept 21: p.160 [1--8, 12, 14, 17, 22, 25, 28, 36, 38]
  • Sept 24: p.187 [7--14, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22]
  • Sept 25: [Quiz #4, S09] [Quiz #4, S10]
  • Sept 26: p. 196 [2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24]
  • Sept 28: p.203 [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27] p.207 [1--16]
  • Oct 01: p.207--208 [29, 35, 36] p.214--216 [1--4, 7, 9, 11, 17, 21, 31, 37, 43, 44, 72, 73]
  • Oct 02: [Quiz #5, S09] [Quiz #5, S10]
  • Oct 03: p.241 [9--20]
  • Oct 05: pp.247--248 [1, 2, 4, 7, 9--32, 39, 41, 43]
  • Oct 08: pp.221--222 [1--4, 10,11,13]
  • Oct 09: [Quiz #6, S09] [Quiz#6, S10]
  • Oct 10: pp.254--255 [27--30, 58, 59, 61, 62, 65] p.263 [odds in 5--33]
  • Oct 15: p.63 [9--15] p.254 [33, 35, 37, 40, 41, 43, 47]
  • Oct 16: Review Session
  • Oct 17: p.276 [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 24]
  • Oct 19: EXAM #2. (sections 2.6, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4). 50-minute test with 11 questions, one from each section taught. There will be at least one story problem on "related rates"
  • Oct 22: pp.287--288 [3, 4ab, 5a, 6a, 9, 13, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 45--49]
  • Oct 23: [Quiz #7, S09] [Quiz #7, S10]
  • Oct 24: p.299 [1--14]
  • Oct 26: p.307 [7--10, 17--24]
  • Oct 29: p.318 [1--5, 11, 17--23]
  • Oct 30: [Quiz #8, S09] [Quiz #8, S10]
  • Oct 31: p.334 [1--12, 13a,14ab]
  • Nov 02: pp.343--344 [13, 14, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26]
  • Nov 05: p.363 [1, 5, 7, 9, 11--23]
  • Nov 06: [Quiz #9, S09] [Quiz #9, S10]
  • Nov 07: pp.363--364 [24--29, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41, 43]
  • Nov 09: pp.371--372 [1--6, 9--49]
  • Nov 12: Review
  • Nov 13: [Quiz #10, S09] [Quiz #10, S10] & Review
  • Nov 14: p.354 [13--18] p.394 [11--14, 19--23, 25, 26]
  • Nov 16: pp.383--384 [1--8, 11-16, 39, 40, 45, 46, 56]
  • Nov 19: EXAM #3. (sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 5.8, 6.2, 6.3) 50-minute test with 10 questions, one from each section taught. There will be at least two story problems, one in "Applied Maximum and Minimum", and one in "Rectilinear Motion".
  • Nov 26: pp.417--418 [5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 37--40, 44, 46]
  • Nov 27: [Quiz #11, S09] [Quiz #11, S10]
  • Nov 28: p.407 [9--27] p.434 [1ac, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14]
    [Quiz #12, S09] [Quiz #12, S10]
  • Nov 30: pp.434--435 [15--18, 21--23, 25]
    [Quiz #13, S09] [Quiz #13, S10]
  • Dec 03: Review Session (1/4)
  • Dec 04: Review Session (2/4)
  • Dec 05: Review Session (3/4)
  • Dec 07: Review Session (4/4)
  • Dec 12: FINAL EXAM. 5:30 PM -- 8:30 PM.
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Friday, August 24, 2007

MATH 141: Meeting Times

Lectures:MWF 11:15 AM - 12:05 PMLeConte 412
Problem Sessions:Sect 09. T 11:00 AM - 11:50 AMLeConte 115
Sect 10. T 12:30 PM - 1:20 PMLeConte 115
Computer Labs:Sect 09. Th 11:00 AM - 11:50 AMLeConte 102
Sect 10. Th 12:30 PM - 1:20 PMLeConte 102
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MATH 141: Office Hours

ThF 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM in LeConte 313A, or by appointment.
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MATH 141: Teaching Assistant

Arnab Bose Office Hours: MW 2:30 - 3:30 pm in LeConte 300A. Phone: 7-3516 e-mail: bose_arnab80 at yahoo dot com
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MATH 141: Prerequisites

Qualifications through placement or a grade of C or better in MATH 112 or 115.
Placement tests are scheduled as follows (no appointment is necessary)
  • Th Aug 23. 5:30 PM. LeConte 113
  • M Aug 27. 5:30 PM. LeConte 113
  • W Nov 7. 5:30 PM. LeConte 112
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MATH 141: Text

Calculus: Early Transcendentals by H. Anton, I. Bivens and S. Davis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005 (eighth edition)
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MATH 141: Course Structure and Grading Policies

Homework problems will be assigned at the end of each lecture. However, they will not be collected and graded. Your final score for the course will be computed as follows:
  • Computer Labs: 15% of the course grade.
    [http://www.math.sc.edu/calclab/141L-F07/]
  • Quizzes: 20% of the course grade. Only the 10 best scores are counted.
    A ten-minute quiz will be given during the problem session. There will be no make-up quizzes, since only the best 10 grades count towards the course grade.
  • Midterms: each test counts 15%, for a total of 45% of the course grade.
    There will be three in-class midterm exams scheduled as follows:
    Test #Date
    1Wed Sep 19
    2Fri Oct 19
    3Mon Dec 19
    No make-up tests will be given. Only medical, death in the family, religious or official USC business reasons are valid excuses for missing a test and must be verified by letter from a doctor, guardian or supervisor to the instructor.
  • Final exam: 20% of the course grade.
    The final exam is scheduled on Wednesday, December 12, from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
The course grade will be determined as follows:
GRADERANGE
A90%-100%
B+85%-89%
B80%-84%
C+75%-79%
C70%-74%
D+65%-69%
D60%-64%
Fbelow 60%
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MATH 141: Introduction Materials. Further Information

  • Syllabus [www.math.sc.edu/~blanco/syllabus.pdf]
  • Remember to change your e-mail address on Blackboard [blackboard.sc.edu]
  • ADA: If you have special needs as addressed by the Americans with Dissabilities Act and need any assistance, please notify the instructor immediately.
  • The Math Tutoring Center is a free tutoring service for all 100-level math courses. Students may also get help for math 221, 222, or 241 but preference is given to students seeking help in 100-level courses. No appointment is necessary. It opens on Tuesday, September 4th and the schedule is at follows:
    Monday - Thursday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (LeConte 105) Monday - Thursday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Bates House) Monday - Thursday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Columbia Hall) Monday - Thursday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Sims)
    The evening locations are all located in campus residence halls, but students may use any location regardless of where they live. Further information about tutor schedules, holidays, finals week, and private tutors is available at [www.math.sc.edu/mathlab.html]
  • The Supplemental Instructor for this course is Vy Doan. She will be holding three sessions a week in the Student Success Center (SSC) located in the top floor of the library. The sessions times are as follows:
    Monday 7-8 pm SSC 2 Wednesday 3-4 SSC 2 Thursday 5-6 SSC 2
    Any questions can be directed to doanvn at mailbox dot sc dot edu.
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Sunday, July 8, 2007

MA598R'07: Tip of the week.

How to download all quals from the web with a couple of commands (in UNIX)? You can do this with either wget or curl. The syntax is really simple with curl:
(that's a capital "o" at the end of each command. Click on image for larger version)
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Saturday, July 7, 2007

MA598R'07. Set of problems

[Problem set #1: June 11][Problem set #2: June 13]
[Problem set #3: June 20][Problem set #4: June 27]
[Problem set #5: July 11][Problem set #6: July 18]
[January 2004][January 1999]
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Friday, July 6, 2007

MA598R'07. Calendar

Monday, June 11 Riemann-Stieltjes Integral
  • Functions of Bounded Variation
  • Existence of the Riemann-Stieltjes Integral
  • The Riemann-Stieltjes Integral and Limits
Wednesday, June 13 Abstract Measures. Lebesgue Measure.
  • Algebras and σ-algebras of Sets
  • Additive Set Functions and Measures
  • Properties of Measures
  • Lebesgue Measure on Rn
  • The Cantor Set
Monday, June 18 Second chances: review of Measure Theory Wednesday, June 20 Measurable Functions
  • Elementary Properties of Measurable Functions
  • Structure of Measurable Functions
  • Sequences of Measurable Functions
Monday, June 25 Second chances: review of Measurable Functions. Wednesday, June 27 Integration
  • The Integral of Nonnegative Functions
  • The Integral of Arbitrary Functions
  • Riemann and Lebesgue Integrals
  • Metric structure of L1
  • The Lebesgue Differentiation Theorem
Monday, July 2 Second chances: review of Integration Wednesday, July 4 No class Monday, July 9 Third chances: review of Integration Wednesday, July 11 Lp Spaces
  • The Lebesque Lp spaces
  • Functionals on Lp
  • Weak convergence
Monday, July 16 Second chances: review of Lp spaces Wednesday, July 18 Advanced Topics:
  • Covering Lemmas.
  • Absolute Continuity.
  • Approximations to the Identity.
  • The Fourier Transform.
Monday, July 23 Second chances: review of Advanced Topics. Wednesday, July 25 Qual frenzy Monday, July 30 Qual frenzy
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