Lecturer: Dr. Nguyen Minh Quan.
Office Hours: Tuesday, 10:00 am – 11:30 am. Room 105
Email: nmquan05@gmail.com
Class’s email: fund.math.vgu@gmail.com. Password: fundmath2012
Lectures: Tuesday 1:00 pm - 4: 15pm.
TA and exercise class: To be announced.
Textbooks: J. Stewart, Calculus early transcendentals 6th ed., Brooks/Cole Pub
Co, 2008.
The course will cover Chapters 1 through 9.
References (optional):
J. Rogawski, Calculus, Early Transcendentals, W.H. Freeman, 2008.
Course Description: This course is to provide the students with the main ideas and techniques of calculus with functions of one variable, concerning limits, continuity, differentiation and integration, differential equations.
Main Content: Functions and models; Limits; Continuity; Derivatives,
Differentiation, Derivatives of Basic Elementary Functions, Differentiation Rules;
Applications of Differentiation: l’Hôpital’s Rule, Optimization, Newton’s Method;
Anti-derivatives; Indefinite Integrals, Definite Integrals, Fundamental Theorem of
Calculus; Techniques of Integration; Improper Integrals; Applications of
Integration, Differential equations.
Examinations: There will be ONE in-class final exam.
Assignments: Homework problems and quizzes will be assigned regularly.
Make-up quizzes will NOT be conducted under any circumstances.
Course Grades: Your final grade will be determined by averaging your grades for the final exam and assignments with the following weightings
Assignments and Exercises: 20%,
Final Exam: 80%
Attendance: I expect you to attend classes regularly unless you have a valid excuse. Please remember that once you miss classes and fall behind, it is very difficult to get back on track. STUDY HARD RIGHT NOW!
MATH 1.2: Fundamental Mathematics-EEIT 2011
Chapter 1.
Functions and Models
1.1 Four ways to represent a function
1.2 Mathematical models
1.3 New functions from old functions
1.4 Inverse functions
1.5