Professor Robert Sharpley
Office: 313D LeConte
Office Hours: MWF 9:00-10:00 or by appointment.
WWW Information Page:
http://www.math.sc.edu/~sharpley/math141
Graduate Assistant:
Mr. Manton Matthews
Office: B010 LeConte Phone: 7-6599
Office Hours: To Be Determined.
Mr. Matthews will administer weekly quizes over the assigned
homework problems during the Tuesday-Thursday recitation sessions.
Prerequisites:
By placement or by a grade of at least C in Math 112
or Math 115.
Attendance Policy:
This class meets five days a week (three lectures
and two recitations). Attendance is expected in all classes and will be
required according to the standard University policy.
Text:
Calculus with Analytic Geometry. (7-th
Ed.), by D. Varberg and E. Purcell, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
NJ, 1997.
Grading:
Test 1
20%
September 18
Test 2
20%
October 16
Test 3
20%
November 16
Weekly Quizes
10%
(over the assigned homework exercises)
Cumulative Final Exam
30%
9 am, Friday December 11
Course Content:
Course will cover Chapters 2-6 of the text, omitting Section 4.5. The topics
will include: limits and continuity; differentiation of functions, max/min
methods, applications of the derivative to physical problems, curve sketching,
and The Mean Value Theorem; antidifferentiation and integration; area,
volumes, and applications of integration; The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
Make-up Policy:
Make-up exams will be given only for documented reasons of illness
or family emergency. Excuses such as forgetting the exam schedule, oversleeping,
or being unprepared are not acceptable reasons for the approval of make-up
exams.