Math 121: Intermediate Calculus (Spring 2023)
This course is focused on integration techniques, series, and parametric/polar equations.
I previously taught this course in Spring 2018. At the link, you can find some materials from that version of the course.
Time and location
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 11:00-11:50am in SMUD 204.
Help hours
- My office hours in SMUD 401:
- Tuesday 2:00-3:30
- Wednesday 2:30-4:00
- Friday 1:30-2:30
- We have three wonderful Math Fellows (TAs) for 121, with office hours as follows. All Math Fellow hours are in SMUD 204.
- Monday 6:00-7:30 (Admire Madyira)
- Tuesday 6:00-7:30 (Admire Madyira)
- Wednesday 7:30-9:00 (Aidee Hernandez)
- Thursday 6:00-7:30 (Ali Sbeih)
- Thursday 7:30-9:00 (Aidee Hernandez)
- Friday 6:00-7:30 (Ali Sbeih)
Handouts and other items
- Syllabus
- Boardwork from my tablet (updated periodically)
- Zoom link for any online office hours, classes, etc.
- M 1/30: exponentials review handout / solutions
- W 2/8: L’Hôpital’s rule notes from an older course
- M 2/13: integration by parts notes from an older course (see Section 5 for a bit on tabular integration)
Review handouts and extra review problems
The review handouts below are gratefully borrowed from Danielle Benedetto.
- Derivatives and integrals reference sheet
- The unit circle
- Trigonometry review
- Limit examples
- Inverse trig examples
- Integration by parts examples
- Trig. integral examples
- Trig. sub. examples
- Integration techniques reference sheet
Homework
Problem sets will be posted here. All problem sets are due at 10pm, on Gradescope.
- Gradescope instructions
- Problem Set 1 (due W 2/1 by midnight) / answer key (final answers only)
- Problem Set 2 (due F 2/3 by midnight) / answer key
- Problem Set 3 (due W 2/8 by midnight) / answer key
- Problem Set 4 (due F 2/10 by midnight) / answer key (ignore #21 on answer key)
- Problem Set 5 (due W 2/15 by midnight) / answer key
- Problem Set 6 (due F 2/17 by midnight) / answer key
- Problem Set 7 (due W 2/22 by midnight) / answer key
- Midterm 1 material ends here.
- Problem Set 8 (due
W 3/1F 3/3 by midnight) / answer key - Problem Set 9 (due
W 3/8Th 3/9 by midnight) / answer key - Problem Set 10 (due F 3/10 at midnight) / answer key
- Problem Set 11 (due W 3/22 at midnight) / answer key
- Problem Set 12 (due F 3/24 at midnight) / answer key
- Problem Set 13 (due W 3/29 at midnight) / answer key
Exams
There will be three midterms and a three hour final exam. Further information and sample exams will be posted here.
- Midterm 1 will be in class on Friday 2/24.
- Exam / Solutions
- You are allowed a one page notesheet, front and back, so that you don’t need to memorize formulas. Put some time into it – deciding what to put on the note sheet is a very useful study process!
- Coverage: anything covered in class up to and including Friday 2/17 (Sections: 6.5, 6.6, 6.8, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3)
- Review packet / Solutions (thanks to D. Benedetto!)
- Practice exams: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2018 (skip 1(c), 2(a)), Spring 2017
- Solutions video for the Fall 2022 exam, with some comments.
- Written solutions for practice exams: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
- Midterm 2 will be in class on Friday 3/31.
- You are allowed a one page notesheet, front and back, so that you don’t need to memorize formulas. Put some time into it – deciding what to put on the note sheet is a very useful study process!
- Coverage: anything covered from Monday 2/20 to Friday 3/24 (Sections: 7.4, 7.8, and 11.1-7).
- Review packet / Solutions
- Practice exams: Spring 2020 (skip 1(e)), Fall 2020, Fall 2022 (this one was take-home, and longer than usual)
- Solutions to practice exams: Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
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Midterm 3 will be in class on Friday 4/28.
- The final exam will be on Tuesday 5/16, 2pm-5pm, in SCCE E210.