Course Syllabus

Spring 2011 Math 2413 Differential Calculus

Lectures:
1. MATH 2413-001: MWF 1:30p - 2:20p GR 3.420 – Instructor: Bentley Garrett
2. MATH 2413-002: MWF 9:30a – 10:20a JO 3.516 – Instructor: Bentley Garrett
3. MATH 2413-003: MWF 1:30p – 2:20p GR 3.302 – Instructor: Wieslaw Krawcewicz
Common Examination:
4. MATH 2413-201 (registration required)
Problem Sessions: (you must register for one of these)
5. MATH 2413-301: T 11:30a – 1:20p FN 2.104 – Instructor: Janet Tamez
6. MATH 2413-302: T 11:30a – 1:20p SLC 2.302 – Instructor: Aneta Cwain
7. MATH 2413-303: M 2:30p – 4:20p SLC 2.302 – Instructor: Sara Hildebrand
8. MATH 2413-304: M 2:30p – 4:20p FN 2.106 – Instructor: Aneta Cwain
9. MATH 2413-305: R 2:30p – 4:20p FN 2.106 – Instructor: Janet Tamez
10. MATH 2413-307: R 2:30p – 4:20p FN 2.104 – Instructor: Sara Hildebrand

Professor Contact Information

2413-001 and 2413-002: Bentley Garrett

- Office: ECSN 3.606
- Phone: 972-883-4236
- Email: btg032000@utdallas.edu
- Office hours are: Monday, Wednesday, 3:00p-5:00p, or by appointment.

2413-003: Wieslaw Krawcewicz

- Office: FO 2.610
- Phone: 972-883-6620
- Email wieslaw@utdallas.edu
- Office hours are: Monday, Wednesday, 5:00-7:00, or by appointment.

Course Pre-requisites, Co-requisites, and/or Other Restrictions

Prerequisite: A SAT II Mathematics Level IC Test Score of at least 600, or two years of high school
algebra, one year of high school geometry, trigonometry, or precalculus or MATH 2312 with a grade of at
least C-.
Co-requisite: Problem session 2413-301 or 2413-302 or 2413-303 or 2413-304 or 2413-305 or 2413-307

Course Description
Course covers topics in differential calculus of functions of one variable; topics include limits, continuity,
derivative, chain rule, implicit differentiation, mean value theorem, maxima and minima, curve sketching,
derivatives of inverse trigonometric functions, antiderivative, substitution method, and applications. Three
lecture hours and two discussion hours a week. Credit given for only one of MATH 1325, MATH 2413 or
MATH 2417.
Required Textbooks, Materials and Additional Resources
- Recommended Textbook: Calculus, Early Transcendentals 6 Edition by James Stewart.
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However, other editions of this text are also acceptable (there will be no homework assigned from
the textbook).
- Solutions manual: The Student Solutions Manual is recommended and available in the bookstore.
- Required CPS (Classroom Performance System) Clickers available in the bookstore.
- Calculators: A scientific calculator is recommended. Graphing calculators, programmable
calculators, or calculators with non-numeric displays are NOT ALLOWED on quizzes or exams.
- Calculus eBook: available on MuchLearning (see more information below)
- MATH HELP CENTER: located at FO 1.204, 9:00a – 6:00p (operated by math TA’s). Provides
free walk-in tutoring for students.
- GEMS Center: located at CN 1.126 (phone: 972-883-6707), M—R: 10:00a – 8:00p, F and S:
10:00a – 2:00p. Provides free walk-in tutoring for students.

Homework Assignments
There will be about 11 or 12 mandatory graded assignments. Assignments will contribute 15% to your final
grade. The homework assignments will be published at MuchLearning and you will be given approximately
7 days to submit your solutions ONLINE. MuchLearning is an easy-to-use educational platform, based on
browser-based technology. You will only need the Firefox browser (there is no need for additional plug-ins
or downloads). This web-based software provides you with a smart editor, which will allow you to present
your math in a precise and elegant way. For some problems you will have multiple attempts at the solution,
others only one attempt. Your responses for the most part must be typed in to the program and will be
graded immediately. There will be a deadline for completion of each assignment. Once the deadline has
expired, your grade will be transferred into eLearning (as a percent) and visible to you. There will be NO
late graded homework scores.

MuchLearning Setup for Students

1. Make sure you are using the Mozilla Firefox browser. If you do not have this browser, go to
www.mozilla.com, and click the free download button. After you have downloaded it, start the
browser.
2. Log into eLearning on your Firefox browser.
3. Click on the link for your eLearning course.
4. In your course’s homepage you will see a link titled “MuchLearning”. Click on it.
5. Click the “Students” button.
6. Read the terms of service then click on the “I accept. Create my Account” button to create your
account. Your account will be created and you will be signed into MuchLearning.
7. Click “login.”
8. In the left menu you will find a link to your course – please click it.
9. Your assignments can be found in the link labeled “Assignments” in the left menu.

To login to your account in the future simply click the “Login to MuchLearning” link in your eLearning
course. This will take you directly to your course homepage in MuchLearning.

Mandatory Attendance and Participation

MATH 2413 will be using the Classroom Performance System (CPS) to enforce an active participation of
all students enrolled in this course. Each student should purchase from the bookstore a receiver unit—the
so-called clicker that will be needed in class to answer the course-relevant questions and participate in pop
quizzes. The Participation will contribute 10% of the final grade, which will be evaluated based on the in-
class student’s performance (quizzes, pop quizzes and questions). The information how to register your
CPS is provided at the end of this document.

Grading Policy
- Homework assignments: 15%
- Exam 1: 20%
- Exam 2: 20%
- Final Exam: 25%
- Weekly Quizzes: 10% (Problem Session)
- Participation: 10%

This course is fully coordinated—all the exams will be common and the same grading scheme will be
applied to all the sections in MATH 2413. The common Exams 1 and 2 will be held on Fridays: February
18 and April 8, from 2:30p – 4:30p. Both Exams will be done online, using the MuchLearning platform,
either in a computer LAB, or in a reserved examination room (for those students who will choose to use
their own laptops for the exams). The exam results will be immediately available to all participating
students. The common Final Exam will be the usual pen-and-paper in-class examination.

Grade Scale:
[96.6,100]…A+ [93.3,96.6).….A [90,93.3).….A-
[86.6,90)…..B+ [83.3,86.6)…..B [80,83.3).….B-
[76.6,80).….C+ [73.3,76.6).….C [70,73.3),….C-
[66.6,70).….D+ [63.3,66.6).….D [60,63.3).….D-
[0 ,60)…...F

There will be no curving of the final results in this class.

Make-up Exams Policy: All students in MATH 2413 will be given an opportunity to improve
their performance in this class by retaking the midterm exams. The make-up online exams will be
organized and everyone is encouraged to take it (except for those who already got 100%). The make-up
exams are not alternative for the Midterm Exams. Those who miss an exam will not be allowed to take the
make-up (see the current Academic Policies and Procedures for more information on excused absence from
midterm and final examination).

There will be no organized make-up quizzes (given at the problem sessions). However, for the final grade,
the lowest two quiz scores will be dropped. Regarding the mid term and final exams: textbooks, notes,
graphing calculators or other electronic devises won't be allowed during examination. Rules governing the
proper academic conduct and student's integrity will be strictly observed. Cheating and plagiarism won't be
tolerated (see the details below).

Exam Schedule:
- Exam 1: Friday, February 18 from 2:30pm – 4:30 pm
- Exam 2: Friday, April 8 from 2:30pm – 4:30 pm
- Final Exam*: Monday, May 9
*The exact location and time for the Final Exam will be announced later.

Academic Calendar: Please check the Academic Calendar at the UTD website, for all
important dates concerning registration, withdrawals and holidays. You can also use this link:
Academic Calendar
Student Learning Objectives
(1) Students will be able to formulate real world problems into mathematical statements.
• Given a narrative description of a problem that lends itself to mathematical analysis, the
student will clearly define any variable quantities introduced and provide an appropriate
equation, function, or formula relating those variables.
(2) Students will be able to develop solutions to mathematical problems at the level appropriate to
each course.
• Given a limit statement of indeterminate form, the student will be able to apply
appropriate algebraic or calculus based techniques to compute the limit.
• Given a function, the student will be able to compute a first or second order derivative
and, if instructed, evaluate the derivative at a point in its domain.
(3) Students will be able to describe or demonstrate mathematical solutions either numerically or
graphically.
• Students shall provide a qualitative, planar sketch which clearly indicates prescribed
attributes.
• Students will provide numerical results in a prescribed manner, as a percent, an interval,
or with specified accuracy.

Detailed Description of the Course:

No. Topics Remarks
Review of Precalculus: real numbers,
1. Students are
equations, inequalities, quadratic equation,
recommended to
functions, domains of functions, graphs of
refresh these
functions, polynomials, rational functions,
topics—we will
lines, circles and parabolas, transformation
only discuss them
of functions, inverse functions, exponential
shortly in class.
and logarithmic functions, trigonometric
functions, trigonometric identities, relations
in a triangle, inverse trigonometric functions.

2. Limits: Tangent and velocity problems,

notion of the limit of a function, the
graphical representation of a limit, one-sided
limits, infinite limits. Limit laws and using
the limit laws to compute the limits,
substitution property, squeeze property,
inequalities of limits. Trigonometric limits.
Precise definition of a limit (with quantifiers
and logical symbols).

3. Continuity: Notion of continuity, continuity

from the left and from the right. Types of
discontinuities (removable, jump, infinite).
Continuity of elementary functions.
Piecewisely defined functions. Intermediate
Value Theorem and its application to solving
equations.
Asymptotes: limits at infinity and horizontal
4.
 asymptotes, infinite limits and vertical
asymptotes. Finding slant asymptotes.
Computational examples for limits at infinity.

5. Derivatives and Rate of Change: Tangent

line problem, slope of tangent line, rate of
change, instantaneous rate of change,
velocity problem and instantaneous velocity.
Notion of a derivative as a number,
derivative as a function, various notations
used for derivative, finding derivative from a
graph of a function and reconstructing the
shape of a function from the graph of its
derivative. Notion of differentiability of a
function and the idea of “smoothness”. How
to recognize differentiable function from its
graph. Continuously differentiable function.

6. Higher Derivatives: second derivative and Some examples of

higher derivatives. Finding n-th derivative. n-th derivatives will
Partial Derivatives: Notion of a partial be presented. Partial
derivative (for functions depending of more derivatives will be
than one variable). Some examples. onlyshortly
discussed.

7. Rules of Differentiation: derivative of power

function, linearity property of differentiation
(sum and difference property, constant
multiplier rule), product property, quotient
property. Definition of the number e.
Derivative of the exponential function.
Derivatives of trigonometric functions.

8. Chain Rule: Explanation of the chain rule, The chain rule will
and examples. Leibnitz notation for chain be covered with
rule. Derivative of general exponential many examples.
function. Examples of the usage of the chain
rule.
Implicit Differentiation: Curves and
functions given implicitly, Implicit Function
9.
Theorem and Inverse Function Theorem.
Derivatives of inverse trigonometric
functions, logarithmic functions, and
logarithmic differentiation.
10. Some Applications: Rates of change in
Sciences, cost and marginal cost, demand
and marginal demand, etc. Rate of growth,
estimating populations, exponential growth
and decay (population growth, decay,
radioactive decay, carbon 14 method),
Newton’s law of cooling, continuously
compound interest, borrowing money and
monthly payments: how much we really pay
for a house (cost of borrowing).

11. Related Rates: Several examples of related

 rates problems.
Linear Approximations and Differentials:
approximation of a function using
differentials. Taylor polynomials and Taylor
approximation formula.

12. Hyperbolic and Inverse Hyperbolic

Functions: basic properties, identities and
exact formulae for the inverse hyperbolic
functions. Derivatives of hyperbolic
functions.

13. Local or global maxima, minima (extrema),

Weierstrass Theorem (extreme value
theorem), Fermat Theorem. Critical numbers
and finding maximal and minimal values of a
function (closed interval method).

13. Rolle’s, Lagrange and Cauchy Theorems,

Monotonicity and Concavity Conditions:
first derivative test for increasing and
decreasing function, for local
maximum/minimum, second derivative test
for concavity upward/downward, for
inflection point, for maximum/minimum.
L’Hopital’s Rule: Indeterminate forms of a
14.
limit. L’Hopital’s rule and its variations (for
finite and infinite limits). Examples.
Curve Sketching: examining the shape of a
curve (sketching graphs of a function).
Optimization Problems: applied problems
15.
from sciences, business, economy, etc. Also
from geometry and physics.
Newton’s Method
Antiderivative and Notion of Indefinite
16.
Integral: Table of basic antiderivatives.

Area and Distance Problems: Finding the

17.
area under a curve using slices (derive the
formula for the area of a circle). Derive the
formula for the Area Problem.
Definite Integral: Partitions, Riemann sums,
definition of Riemann integral, integrability
of a function, properties of the Riemann
integral, convention for the interchange of
the endpoints. Examples of calculations of
Riemann integrals directly from the
definition.
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (FTC or
18.
Newton-Leibnitz Formula): Area function
and its derivative, two versions of the FTC.
Connection between indefinite and definite
integration. Basic integration techniques and
applications to area and distance problems.
 Substitution Rule: Chain Rule and
19.
antidifferentiation—the Substitution Rule for
indefinite integral. Substitution Rule for
definite integral.
Applications: Area between two curves,
20. Example: compute
Volumes of solids—integrals of cross-section
of the volume of a
function, disc and washer method,
ball of radius r in
cylindrical shells method. Work as integral
the n-dimensional
of force, pumping problems, hydrostatic
space
pressure.
Final Review.
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Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for
credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an
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commit such acts.

Plagiarism, especially from the web, from portions of papers for other classes, and from any other source is
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The goal of Disability Services is to provide students with disabilities educational opportunities equal to
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the professor after class or during office hours.

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Students Registering a CPS Clicker

Before you can use your CPS response pad (clicker) successfully in the classroom, you need to register
your CPS response pad (clicker) within your eLearning class.
Registering Your Clicker
1. Login to eLearning (http://elearning.utdallas.edu) with your NetID and Password.
2. Choose the course that you need to register your CPS response pads (clickers).
3. Click on the CPS response pad (clicker) registration link on the homepage or folder that
your professor has designated.
 4. Click on the drop-down menu under Serial Number and choose “New pad”.

NOTE: If you have already registered your CPS response pad (clicker) with another course your serial
number will already appear, as shown in the example below.

5. After selecting “New pad” you will be able to enter your CPS response pad’s (clicker’s)
serial number, e-mail address, and security question/answer just in case. If you do not
want your e-mail address saved in CPS, then check the box. To find the serial number
for your CPS response pad (clicker), turn on your CPS response pad (clicker) and it will
display on your screen as shown below. Once you have finished entering all of this
information select “Add.”
6. After selecting “Add” you will need to sign-in to CPS. If you have never registered a
CPS response pad (clicker) select the first option. If you have, enter your CPSOnline
username and password and then click “Continue.”
7. After selecting “Continue” you will be directed to a page that will ask you to pay for
registration. You will only have to pay $13.00 for up to three semesters or you can pay
$36.00 at one time and will never have to pay again. If you have not purchased
activation this semester select the first option and then pay. If you have purchased
activation, choose the third option. Once you fill in this information you click
“Continue” and will be directed back to the set-up screen with confirmation that you have
added your clicker.

8. You will see your serial number added and your clicker number for the class.
You can now use your clicker in class!
If you have any question, please contact CPS technical support at http://einstruction.com or call them at
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