Math 140 Fall 2007

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Instructor: Dennis DeTurck

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Welcome to Math 104!

Info pages for undergraduate math:

General Information for my section:

Class meetings are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30-12:00 in DRL A1

Recitation sections:
- Mr. Kania's sections:
  - Section 231 - Mondays 9:00-10:00 a.m. in DRL 2C6
  - Section 232 - Mondays 10:00-11:00 a.m. in DRL 2C6
  - Section 233 - Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 a.m. in DRL 2C6
  - Section 234 - Wednesdays 9:00-10:00 a.m. in DRL 2C6
- Mr. Seshamani's sections:
  - Section 235 - Mondays 9:00-10:00 a.m. in DRL 2C8
  - Section 236 - Mondays 10:00-11:00 a.m. in DRL 2C8
  - Section 237 - Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 a.m. in DRL 2C8
  - Section 238 - Wednesdays 9:00-10:00 a.m. in DRL 2C8
Since I am the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, I have two offices. I spend most of my time in my "Dean's office", 120 Claudia Cohen Hall (tel. 8-7867). I also have a Math Department office, DRL 3E1, tel. 3-9036. My email address is deturck@sas.upenn.edu. I will have "regular" office hours on Mondays from 5:30-7 pm, in Williams Hall, Room 205. "Regular" means that during those times, I'm there for my Math 104 students, and I'm not allowed to tell you I'm busy (unless it's with another student). You are welcome to stop by at other times, but at those times I reserve the right to ask you to come back later if I'm involved with other stuff.
The teaching assistants for the course are James Kania and Shreyas Seshamani. James's office is DRL xxx and his office hours will be ???. Shreyas's office is DRL xxx and his office hours will be ???.

Basic Ground Rules:

Final grade based on six equal parts: Final exam (equals two parts), three midterm exams, everything else. Everything else includes regular homework, computer homework, the occasional quiz in recitation, lecture points, etc..

Homework will be assigned before each Thursday, and will be due at Thursday's lecture the following week. You will almost always need to use the computer to do some of your homework.

Homework will contain instructions for reading. Make sure you do the reading before the class for which it is assigned. I will assume you have done so.

Make use of my office hours, Math Center, Maple Center, Electronic newsgroups (upenn.math.math104), Sunday Night Reviews (schedule to be announced soon) etc..

Grading notes: At the end of the semester, everyone who has not withdrawn from the class will get a grade. Incompletes will not be given to avoid F's.

LATE WORK (homework, Maple, etc..) will NEVER be accepted.

Exams:

First midterm: Tuesday September 30 (Review, Chapter 6 and some of 8)
Second midterm: Tuesday, October 28 (tentatively: Chapter 8, sections 9.1 and 9.2)
Third midterm: Tuesday, November 25 (tentatively: Section 9.5, Chapters 10, 12)
Final exam: Wednesday, December 17 12-2 pm, place TBA.

Ways to get help:

Sunday night reviews (beginning September 21) 7-9 pm in DRL A1

Math and Maple Centers
The Tutoring Center - check out their (free!) "Satellite Centers", and
Math 104 Workshops: (times and places to be announced)

Class notes:

September 4 - review of limits and derivatives
Integrals, areas and volumes
Some additional notes on integration:
- Substitution in integrals
- Acceleration/velocity/position problems

Homework and class notes:

September 4 (Assignment 1 and Bonus problem 1)

Bonus problems and solutions:

Bonus problem #1: Suppose that three points on the parabola y = x² have the property that their normal lines intersect at a common point. Show that the sum of their x-coordinates is 0. Is this if and only if?