• Instructor: Karl Dilcher (dilcher@mathstat.dal.ca)
• Office: Chase Building Room 216; ph.: 494-6913 or 494-2572 (main office)
• Office hours: Mondays 10:30-11:30; Wednesdays: 11:30-12:30; Thursdays: 1:00-2:00
• Class time: M-W-F, 1:30 - 2:30, McCain Bldg., Aud. 2
• Tutorials: M-W-F, 12:30 - 1:30, various locations (see online timetable)
• First tutorial: Wednesday, Sept. 14

• Calculus - Early Transcendentals - Single Variable
• by W. Briggs and L. Cochran
• Addison-Wesley 2011
• This book is available in the Dalhousie Bookstore, for $110.58 + Tax
• Used copies $82.94 + tax

This course has a major presence on OWL. To access your MATH 1280 course on OWL, you may go to http://www.dal.ca/ and click on OWL at the top of the page. It is important that you familiarize yourself with the system requirements for proper access to OWL. If necessary also check the University Computing and Information Services site at: http://ucis.dal.ca/index.html.

In order to determine the preparedness level of incoming students, and to increase student success, we have prepared an on-line math skills self-assessment (also known as diagnostic test). You are required to participate in this assessment, even if you already have transfer credits or advanced placement in calculus. Students with unsatisfactory performance in the assessment should speak with the instructor or with Dr. Jarjoura of the Faculty of Engineering, as soon as possible.

You may practice the math skills self-assessment as often as you wish, but between Monday morning, Sept. 12, and Monday, Sept. 19 at midnight, you must login to "MATH 1280: Engineering Diagnostic - Fall 2011" on OWL so that your participation and your test score will be recorded. While this self-assessment is compulsory, the score will not be part of your grade.

Please do the self-assessment early, to identify any problems you may have with your browser. If you do experience problems, please try a different browser, or use any of the computer labs around campus. The self-assessment is not available in paper form.

There will be an assignment after each class, due just before the following class (or tutorial). They will have to be submitted on a standard assignment sheet.

The assignments must be handed in at your tutorials, at the beginning. On those Fridays when there is no tutorial quiz, take your assignment to the Learning Centre (Room 119) in the Chase Building.

There are two tutorials per week (Mondays and Wednesday), and three tutorials in alternating weeks when the biweekly quizzes are written. Attendance is mandatory for tutorials and classes.

Six one-hour quizzes will be written during the term. The five best quizzes count towards the final grade. There will be no make-up quizzes. If you miss one for any reason, the remaining five will count. A two-hour final exam will be written during the exam period. While each quiz covers only material from the previous weeks, the final is comprehensive and covers material from the whole term.

The dates for the Quizzes are:
Sept. 23, Oct. 7, Oct. 21, Nov. 4, Nov. 18, and Dec. 2
(always Fridays during the tutorial).

You can find the calendar entry here.

Course outline:

• Review of polynomial, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions.
• Complex numbers.
• Limits and Continuity.
• Differentiation: first principles.
• Approximations and Taylor series.
• Product, quotient and chain rules.
• Related rates.
• Curve sketching.
• Optimization problems.
• Numerical computaions.
• Antiderivatives.
• Area under a curve; Riemann sums.
• Definite integrals.
• Integration by substitution.

This is a one-semester course, continued by MATH 1290 in the second semester.

• Assignments: 25%
• 5 best of 6 Quizzes: 50%
• Final Test: 25%