18.

01A

CALCULUS

FALL 2011

Course Information
website: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/18/fa11/18.01A/

Check this Stellar website for announcements, problem sets, practice exams, problem set and exam solutions, your grades on problem sets and exams, information on your recitation section, and all other course information. admission requirements: 4 or 5 on the AB test or on the AB subscore of the BC test, or a comparable grade on the A-level or IB exams, or in a comparable college calculus subjest (show transcript and syllabus), or a pass on Part I of the M.I.T. 18.01 ASE (given during Freshman Orientation), or permission of instructor. instructor: Alexander Postnikov, 2-389, x2-2876, apost@math.mit.edu, oce hours TBA course administrator: Halldorsson Hoeskuldur, 2-588, x3-4110, hph@math.mit.edu, oce hours TBA lectures: Tuesday and Thursday 1 pm, Friday 2 pm, room 26-100. recitations: Monday and Wednesday. You can check the recitation schedule and (if needed) change your section on the Stellar website. texts: [Simmons] G. F. Simmons, Calculus with Analytic Geometry, second edition, McGraw-Hill. [Notes] 18.01A Supplementary Notes, Exercises, and Solutions. (The notes are available for download from the Stellar website. You can also buy a hard copy at Copy Tech, Room 11-004 in basement of Building 11.)

problem sets: There will be four problem sets. They will be posted on Stellar on Thursdays, due the following Thursday, no later than 12:45 pm (before the lecture) in room 2-106. Please staple the pages together and clearly write your name, your recitation section, and the name of your recitation instructor on your problem set solutions.
cooperation policy: Cooperation on problems is permitted, but all solutions must be written up independently and you must list your collaborators on the problem set.

exams: One one-hour midterm exam. One two-hour nal exam.

make-up exam policy: If you fail a midterm exam you will be permitted to take one make-up exam during the following week; you will be notied by email about this possibility. Make-ups for failed exams can boost your score only up to lowest passing score. Make-ups for missed exams are allowed only under serious circumstances beyond students control (such as a medical emergency) or a prior arrangement (at least 24 hours before the regular exam) in room 2-108. There will be no make-ups for the Final Exam!

Students who do not pass 18.01A Exam 1 (or its makeup) must transfer to 18.01. tutoring: MondayThursday 3:005:00 pm, 7:309:30 pm, room 2-102. grading: The grade is based on a cumulative total score. For this, each problem set counts approximately 40 points, one-hour exam is 100 points, and two-hour exam is 200 points. questions: Concerns about homework, grading, exams: rst check the Stellar website then go see your recitation instructor. You can check your grades on the Stellar website.

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Fall 2011 Syllabus

First recitation: Review of dierentiation. Review [Simmons Chapters 13] Linear and quadratic approximations. [Notes A] Indeterminate forms 0/0, /. LHospitals rule. [Simmons 12.2, 12.3] Denite integral. First fundamental theorem. Applications. [Simmons 6.16.6] [Notes PI, FT] Second fundamental theorem. ln x. Problem Set 1 due. [Notes FT] Geometric applications: volumes, arc length, surface area. [Simmons 7.37.6] Other applications: work, average value. [Simmons 7.7] [Notes AV] Integration by direct and inverse substitution. Trigonometric integrals. Problem Set 2 due. [Simmons 5.3, 9.39.5] Partial fractions decompositions. [Simmons 10.6] [Notes F] MIDTERM EXAM, covering Lectures 18. during class time, location TBA Integration by parts. [Simmons 10.7] Improper integrals. [Simmons 12.4] [Notes INT] Innite series: integral test, convergence of [Simmons 13.113.6] 1/nk .

Geometric series. Power series. Radius of convergence. Problem Set 3 due. [Simmons 14.1, 14.2] Taylor series. Operations on power series. [Simmons 14.3, 14.4] Columbus Day. No class Introduction of discrete probability. Mean. Poisson distribution. Problem Set 4 due. [Notes P] Continuous probability distributions. Exponential distribution. [Notes P] Normal distribution. Applications. [Simmons 12.5] [Notes P] Final Exam review. FINAL EXAM, covering Lectures 116, 7:30 9:30 pm, location TBA No class

18.01A is followed by 18.02A. The instructor for 18.02A is Mark Behrens.

18.02A (first half)

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Fall 2011 Syllabus

Recitation: Intro to vectors Vectors; scaler (dot) product Determinants; vector (cross) product Matrices; inverse matrices Theorems about square systems; Cramers rule, eqns. of planes Parametric eqns: eqns. of lines and curves Problem Set 1 due. Vector derivatives; curvature Applications; Keplers second law Functions of several variables; partial derivatives Veterans Day No class 2D-directional derivative, 2D-gradient Problem Set 2 due. Exam 1, covering Lectures 19 Applications in 3D: contour surfaces, tangent planes Max-min problems; method of least squares Thanksgiving Holiday No class Second derivative test, Lagrange multipliers Chain rule and applications Problem set 3 due. Chain rule for dependent variables Double and iterated integrals in rectangular coords Polar coordinates. Double integrals in polar coords, applications Change of variable in double integrals; Jacobians Continuation and review TWO HOUR MIDTERM during nals week (Fri-Thu, 12/16-22) covering 18.02A rst half (Lectures 118)