| Lecturer: | Tauqir Bibi |
| Office: | Carver 445 |
| Phone: | 294 8184 |
| E-mail: | tauqir@iastate.edu |
| Office Hours: | Tuesday: 1:10 - 4:00pm Thursday: 1:10 - 3:00pm |
| Text: | Calculus for Business, Economics and the Social & Life Sciences by L. Hoffman and Bradley; McGraw-Hill publishers. |
| Lectures: | mf 12:10 - 1:00 pm, 0001 Carver mf 3:10 - 4:00 pm, 0001 Carver |
| Teaching Assistants: | Kim, Eun-Youn (eunykim@iastate.edu ) Stanley Christy( cstanley@iastate.edu) Vasik Ravi (rnvasik@iastate.edu) Wu Kuan-Chuen (kwu@iastate.edu) Hudson Tamara (thudson@iastate.edu) |
Course Objectives: This course is designed to learn
Differential Calculus and its Applications to Business, Economics
and Social Sciences. The main topics emphasized in this course
are
| 1. | Differentiation and integration of the functions and their applications. |
| 2. | Exponential and Logarithmic functions and applications. |
Prerequisites: Satisfactory performance on placement exam, 2 years
of high school algebra, 1 year of high school geometry.
Studying: This course has lecture-recitation format. The lectures
are for the presentation of the new material and recitations are for
solving problems and review.
I recommend that you read over the sections of the
text before they are covered in class. After class, you should re-read
the material and compare it with your notes. Then you will be ready to
work the assigned exercises. You may find that you
need to do more than the specified assignment to become sufficiently
adept at working the problems.
Help: We have Math Help Room in 196 Carver. Help Room hours are
| Monday - Friday | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm |
| Tuesday | 4 - 5:30 pm, Pearson 311 |
| Thursday | 7 - 8:30 pm, Pearson 311 |
Homework, Tests, Grades:
I have assigned homework for each section in the book. Home works
will be collected, but may not be graded. You can discuss
the homework with others, but you have to write your own solutions,
and do your own calculations. Keep your (neatly written) homework
organized together in one place, and bring it to class.
Feel free to talk to your TA or me whenever you have difficulty or unsure of
your answer. All students will be expected to participate actively
during class.
The table below shows the points available from all the sources
| Three in-class exams (100 points each, least scored exam will be dropped): | 200 points (33.33%) | Comprehensive Final: | 150 points (25%) | Home works: | 100 points (16.66%) |
| Quizzes: | 100 points (16.66%) |
| Attendance: | 50 points (8.33%) | Total: | 600 points |
| Overall percentage | Grade |
| 93.4% - 100% | A |
| 90.0% - 93.3% | A- |
| 86.7% - 89.9% | B+ |
| 83.4% - 86.7% | B |
| 80.0% - 83.4% | B- |
| 76.7% - 79.9% | C+ |
| 73.4% - 76.7% | C |
| 70.0% - 73.4% | C- |
| 66.7% - 69.9% | D+ |
| 63.4% - 66.7% | D |
| 60.0% - 63.4% | D- |
| 0.0% - 59.9% | F |
These cut offs may change after each exam and an appropriate scaling may be applied at the end of the semester. No make-up exams please, except for special circumstances. If an emergency causes you to miss an exam, contact me within 48 hours. I may require a written explanation, including a person and telephone number to verify the situation.
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