Calculus I

MAT 175 Section B401[51350], Spring 2014

Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00AM - 10:40AM, Room: APEX 228

CUNY Lehman College

Instructor: Byung Do Park
Email:

Office Hours: Thursdays 12:40 -- 1:40PM or by appointment. Set up an appointment by email for location.
Course Syllabus: PDF(New!)(This is the newest version which we will follow.) PDF(This is previous version which you may disregard). Here is the previous version of the syllabus(based on 4th edition of the textbook).
Section Syllabus: PDF

Announcements

2014-05-25: Letter grades has been submitted. If you want to know how you did in your final exam, please email me by using your CUNY email account. Enjoy the summer!
2014-05-11: Here is a practice test for your departmental final exam. Since the actual final exam, based on which your pass/fail status is determined, will be very similar to this practice test(and this practice test doesn’t deviate much from the sample final exam as well), IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO MASTER ALL THESE PROBLEMS. I will go over this practice test in our last class meeting, Thursday May 15th, 9AM. In the meantime, please try this test on your own, and ask questions. I will give out the hardcopy on Tuesday May 13th.
2014-05-11: Please check out a schedule for Review Session offered by the tutoring center, MCSLC. It's in "Tutoring Information" section in the bottom of this page.
2014-05-06: A solution of the midterm exam III is posted below.
2014-05-06: Here is an example on optimization problems.
2014-04-25: There will be a problem session for preparing MAT175 final exam in my MAT155 class on May 1st, 11:00AM--12:40PM at Gillet 223. All are welcome to join. I have posted a problem set on integration below(or click here).
2014-04-25: Check out Homework #9 and Homework #10 below. The second midterm exam will be given on May 1st, in class. Details are below.
2014-04-16: I hope everyone is enjoying Spring break. We will meet again on Thursday April 24th. Also check out Homework #8 below.
2014-03-23: Check out Homework #7 below. Also, I put up a practice exam for the second midterm.
2014-03-23: On Thursday, March 20th, a fire drill is scheduled at 10AM. The class meets as scheduled, but we will have to have an interruption.
2014-03-16: Check out Homework #6 below.
2014-03-16: A solution of the midterm exam I has been posted below.
2014-03-02: Homework #5 is posted below. The first midterm exam will be given on March 13th, in class. Details are below.
2014-02-15: Check out Homework #4 below.
2014-02-15: CUNY follows Monday schedule on Thursday, February 20th, and hence we don't meet on that day.
2014-02-15: Check out Homework #3 below.
2014-02-08: Check out Homework #2 below.
2014-02-08: MAT175 course coordinater Professor Leon Karp sent out a new syllabus for MAT175 classes and a sample final exam. I will distribute hard copies of these soon. PDF files are posted above(Syllabus) and below(Sample final exam).
2014-01-31: Check out Homework #1 below.
2014-01-28: Welcome!

Homework

Homework #1 (Due: February 6th before class): Lesson 1 from the course calendar.
Homework #2 (Due: February 13th before class): Lesson 2 from the course calendar.
Homework #3 (Due: February 27th before class): Lesson 3-4, 5, 6 from the course calendar.
Homework #4 (Due: March 6th before class): Lesson 7,8 from the course calendar.
Homework #5 (Due: Before Midterm exam I): Lesson 9,10 from the course calendar.
Homework #6 (Due: March 25th before class): Lesson 11,14 from the course calendar.
Homework #7 (Due: April 8th before class): Lesson 15-16, 17-18 from the course calendar.
Homework #8 (Due: Before Midterm exam II): Lesson 19, 20, 21 from the course calendar.
Homework #9 (Due: May 13th before class): Lesson 24, 25 from the course calendar.
Homework #10 (Due: May 15th before class): Lesson 26, 27 from the course calendar.

Exam Schedules

Midterm-I: March 13th(Thursday), In-class.
- Based on the course calendar, from Lesson 2 to Lesson 10 will be covered. All precalculus materials(Chapter 1/Trigonometry review) will be excluded.
- There will be 16 problems(100 points total). Outline of the exam and the type of problems will be very similar to the following practice test: Practice Test PDF
- Related problems in the sample final exams are as follows:
Sample Final(The most relevant one): Chapter 2 --- #6, #7, #9. Chapter 3 --- #1, #2, #3, #10, #15. (This exam was distributed in hardcopy, and also available from below.)
- No problem will be completely identical to sample final exams or homework problems. At least, numbers will be changed.
- Part I consists of 11 problems(5 points each). All are simple calculations.
- Part II consists of 5 problems(Points varies). This part asks proofs, and all these four questions are conceptually very essential in grasping what you learned in this chapter about limits and differentiation.
Here are Problems and Solutions. The average was 37.4 and the maximum score achieved by a student was 66.

Midterm-II: May 1st(Thursday), In-class.
- Based on the course calendar, from Lesson 14 to Lesson 21 will be covered.
- There will be 14 problems(100 points total). Outline of the exam and the type of problems will be very similar to the following practice test: Practice Test PDF
- Related problems in the sample final exams are as follows:
Sample Final(The most relevant one): Chapter 3 --- #4, #5, #11. Chapter 4 --- #8, #12, #13, #14, #18(a). (This exam was distributed in hardcopy, and also available from below.)
- No problem will be completely identical to sample final exams or homework problems. At least, numbers will be changed.
- Part I consists of 8 problems(5 points each).
- Part II consists of 6 problems(10 points each).
Beware that this exam will be difficult, and may take long time to finish, just because the corresponding sample final exam problems are so. It is strongly discouraged if you are planning to come and take this exam without enough practice. Since problems are a little more involved, especially problems #12, #13, #14 in the sample final exam, I will ask 6 problems in Part II of the practice exam identically in the actual exam.
Here are Problems and Solutions. The average was 47.9 and the maximum score achieved by a student was 71.

Final: May 22nd 8:30AM--10:30AM(Thursday), at APEX 228(the same room). We will follow the registrar's schedule for the final exam.
The final exam will be the uniform departmental final exam: The most relevant sample final exam(An error in #10 and #15(2014-03-31) corrected). Sample Final I and its solution. Sample Final II. To pass this course, one should receive score 55% or up from this uniform final exam. Here is a practice problem set. Also check out the calculus webpage for relevant information which are(or will be) posted.
From Spring 2014 semester, MAT175 follows a new syllabus which includes some topics previously covered in MAT176. Here is a sample final exam for MAT176. You only need to look at problems which fall into the coverage of current MAT175 syllabus. Here is a practice problem set on integration.

There is a CUNY Math contest open for all matriculated CUNY undergraduate students. If you are interested in problem solving, please see this page.

Tutoring information

If you wish to find assistance from departmental tutoring, please refer this document.
Review Session for Final Exam
The tutoring center(MCSLC) will offer a review session for students taking MAT175 as follows:
Date and Time: May 17th(Saturday), 12PM--4PM
Location: Gillet Room 333
I think the review session will focus on helping students to get better scores in the uniform departmental final exam. Please plan to attend!
Here is a document on review session.

About using old editions of course textbook

As it is explicitly stated in the departmental MAT175 syllabus, you can use 4th edition of the course textbook. If you are a 4th edition user, you can do one of the following for numberings of homework: (1) Here is a syllabus based on the 4th edition. You can use this syllabus to find which problems you should work out in your 4th edition. (2) The hardcopy version of MAT175 syllabus I distributed contains problem numbers in the 5th edition. You can ignore the fact that this is based on the 5th edition, and instead think of it as a syllabus for the 4th edition.

To avoid any disadvantages to an old edition user, I will try not to make any part of exams identical to problems in any particular edition. At minimum, I will change numbers randomly.

Links

Lehman College Calculus Webpage
Lehman College Math Department Homepage