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Thomas W. Rishel Associate Professor Weill Cornell Medical College Doha, Qatar rishel@math.cornell.edu Appendix A – Math 104 Syllabus Math 104 – Calculus for the Biological Sciences Course Information – Fall, 2002 – October 21 version Text: Calculus with Applications, Brief Version, by Lial, Greenwood and Ritchey. Lecturer: Tom Rishel, Faculty Office
1. T.A.: Justin Matis, T.A. Office. Office
Hours: T.
Rishel: Saturday, Monday, 1-3:00, twr2001@med.cornell.edu. J. Matis: Sunday, Tuesday, 1-2:30, jrm2004@med.cornell.edu. Lectures: Saturday, Monday and Wednesday, 9-9:50. Review
Session:
11-12:30 Wednesdays. As
you will see from my tentative syllabus, some of the lecture days will be given
over to a discussion of homework assignments.
At these times you are especially encouraged to bring up any questions
you may have about any aspect of the course, including lecture materials. Review
sessions are highly recommended, but will not count toward the final
grade. The sessions will be conducted
as follows: bring your book; you will work in small groups on homework or
homework-related problems in whatever manner and order your own group
wants. No lecturing or full-class
discussion will take place. Instead,
Justin and I will go from group to group offering suggestions and answering
questions about whatever you are working on at that time. Text,
Attendance and Homework: Please read the relevant
section of the text before you come to class each day. Attendance in class is strongly recommended;
examinations will be based on the material covered in the lectures, and the
best way to know what to study is to attend the classes. Homework
is given so that you can learn the course material. You are expected to try it out as soon after lecture as possible
so as to be prepared to ask and answer questions in classes and review
sessions. You will also see some
similar problems as part of your examinations. Applications
and Quizzes: On occasion, you will be assigned some of
the later problems in each chapter that Lial, Greenberg and Ritchey call
“Applications.” You will be asked to
hand in these problems for grading.
They will then count toward your final grade (as described below). Sometimes
you will also give very short quizzes in class. These will also count toward the final grade, as explained
below. You will be allowed to drop the
lowest grade from your quizzes, but I will not give makeup quizzes – you must
attend class to take them. Prelims
and Final: We will have three preliminary exams,
tentatively scheduled for Mondays: ·
Prelim
I – October 9. ·
Prelim
II – November 6. ·
Prelim
III – December 2. The
final examination is scheduled for December 17th. Grading: Each Prelim will be worth
100 points; the final exam counts for 150 points. Application problems and quizzes will be worth 50 points. I will drop the lowest quiz grade, as
mentioned above. This totals to 500
points. Justin and I will assign a set
of letter grades at the end of the course based the percentage of these 500
points that you receive. Such issues as
attendance, asking questions, and showing interest will provide us some final
input into whether your numerical grade
tells us the full story. Philosophy: Mathematics is, of course, useful in and of itself. Your goal, however, is to go to medical
school. Thus my goal in this course will
be to concentrate on the usability of mathematics for medically related fields,
especially biology and chemistry. As
often as possible, I will offer applications of the materials contained in the
course. You are also encouraged to
offer examples that you find in textbooks, on the internet, or in other courses
that you are taking or have taken. Syllabus – Math 104
Sept 7 Intro – Overview and Evaluation of Levels 9 Linear Functions, Polynomials, 1.2, 2.3
11 Exponentials
and Logarithms, 2.4, 2.5
14 Applications
of Exponentials and Logarithms, 2.6
16 Definition
of Derivative, Rate of Change, 3.1—3.4
18 Techniques
of Finding Derivatives, 4.1
21
Derivatives
of Products and Quotients, 4.2 23 Derivatives
of Trig Functions, 4.4, 4.5
25 HW
Questions
28 Chain Rule,
4.3 30 What
the First and Second Derivatives Say, 5.1—5.3
Oct 2 HW
Questions
5 Curve
Sketching, 5.4
7 Review
for Prelim I [Wednesday is Exam Day]
9 HW Questions -- Exam at Math Review 12 A Biological Application not in Book
14 Applications of Max and Min, 6.2
16 HW
Questions 19 Antiderivatives,
Substitution, 7.1, 7.2
21 Areas
and Definite Integrals, 7.3, 7.4
23 HW
Questions
26 Computing
Volumes, 8.2 28 Improper
Integrals, 8.4
30 HW
Questions
Nov
2 Review for Prelim II [Wednesday is
Exam Day]
4
HW Questions 6 Functions of Several Variables, 9.1
9 Partial Derivatives, 9.2
11 Total Differentials, 9.5
13 More Total Differentials
16 Maxima
and Minima, 9.3
18 Double
Integrals, 9.6
20 HW
Questions
23 Separable
ODEs, Newton’s Cooling, Diffusion
25 Linear
ODEs, Coupled Equations
26 HW Questions 30 Review for Prelim III Dec 2 Prelim
III In Class 4
Back to PDEs; Heat, Wave, Schrödinger 9 A
Model: Breathing and Panting
11 Sample
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