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COLLEGE ALGEBRA (PART II) Math 103B Spring ’00 4 Units Mon-Wed 6:00 -7:50 PM Room E 106 Instructor: Wayne Logan Phone Number: 541-4660 ext 453 Home phone: (775) 588 9830 Required Text: College Algebra and Trigonometry with Graphing Technology by David Stevens. Recommended Text: College Algebra and Trigonometry with Graphing Technology Students’ Solution Manual, by David Stevens. Graphing Calculator: You will need a graphing calculator for this class. Texas Instruments 85 (TI-85) graphing calculators can be rented from the Learning Assistance Center (B107). The instructors at this college demonstrate on the TI-85. The graphing calculator is required to solve or to validate the homework problems; it will not be required for exams. Course Description: This course covers the following topics: properties of logarithms and exponentials, conic sections in depth, which include ellipses, circles, hyperbolas and parabolas. It also covers systems of equations and their solution with Gaussian Elimination. The course gives a brief introduction into linear programming and finishes with a discussion of sequences, series, permutations and combinations. Prerequisites: There are two prerequisites: 1) A grade of "C" or better in Math 103A (College algebra part I) taken within the last 2 years or 2) a satisfactory score on an assessment test is required. Grading Policy: There will be three 2-hour exams plus a final examination. Each exam will contribute 200 points, the final exam will count as 300 points and the homework will be worth 100 points. The total is 1000 points. Your final grade will be as follows: 900-1000=A; 800-899=B; 700-799=C; 600-699=D and we won’t talk about the rest (but I’m sure you can guess).
Registration: 1. You must register for this class at the Office of Admissions.
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The student must accept responsibility for this odious task. Make up exams: For exams and the final exam a make-up test is possible. However, there will be a 10% penalty in the resulting grade unless there is a written medical excuse. Tutoring: Individual tutoring is available in the LAC (Learning Assistance . Center - Room G6, in the trailers). Tutors are usually available from 8 to 5 pm and on Sat. Specific hours will be announced in class. Your instructor has no office hours. As a consequence any additional help required by the instructor will be by request and the subsequent arrangement of a time and place. Learning Disabled Students: It is important that your needs be communicated to the instructor in order that accommodations can be made.
Date Section Topic 3 April 5.1 Exponential Functions & Their Graphs 5 April 5.2 Logarithmic Functions & Their Graphs 10 April 5.3 Properties of Logarithms 12 April 5.4 Exponential & Logarithmic Equations 17 April 6.1 The Circle (and review of Chapter 5) 19 April-----------------------------------Exam #1 (Chapter 5) 24 April 6.2 The Parabola 26 April 6.3 The Ellipse 1 May 6.4 The Hyperbola 3 May 10.2 Matrices and their properties 8 May-----------------------------------Exam #2 (Chapter 6) 10 May 10.3 Determinants and Inverses of Matrices Math 103-B Schedule (continued) 15 May 10.4 Systems of Linear Inequalities/Programming 17 May 11.1 Introduction to Sequences and Series 22 May 11.2 The sum of a series, Mathematical Induction 24 May 11.3 Arithmetic Sequences and Series 29 May MEMORIAL DAY VACATION 31 May 11.4 Geometric Sequences and Series 5 June-----------------------------------Exam #3 (Chapter 10 through 11.3) 7 June 11.5 Infinite Geometric Series 12 June 11.6 Factorials and Their Applications 14 June Review for the Final Exam. 19 June------------------------------------Cumulative Final Exam in Room E 106 6:00 to 8:00 pm HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT and TESTS It is advisable to do the homework since the majority of each test will be based on homework problems previously assigned. Homework will consist of the problems indicated in the following schedule, as well as problems to be assigned separately in class. The grading of homework will be as follows: 50 points for the scheduled homework and 50 points for the problems assigned in class. In general, the instructor will not review your scheduled homework as the solutions are given in the back of the book. If you have difficulty with any problem please put a visible question mark near the problem and the instructor will comment, either on your paper or in class. Remember, tutoring is available in the LAC (see Tutoring, above). And, in cases of absolute, panicky desperation there is always the text book to which you can refer (no, not joking). However, class assigned problems will be graded for accuracy and with penalties for messy, illegible development. Most errors occur when the student cannot follow his/her own solution development because they cannot decipher their own handwriting.
the following ODD means ‘do the odd numbered problems beginning with the number indicated’, e.g., #3 - 17 ODD means start with # 3, then #5, #7, etc. The acronym EOO means ‘do every other odd problem beginning with the number indicated, e.g., #3 - 15 EOO means start with #3, then #7, #11, etc. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE SECTION PAGES PROBLEMS 5.1 4/3 302-303 ODD: 1-29; EOO: #31-43; plus 38, 45, 46, 48, 52,11.3 5/24 722-724 EOO: 1-25; ODD: 27-45, 55-63; plus 58, 62,66 & 68 6/14 Review for the final exam. 6/19---------------------------Cumulative Final Exam in Room E-106 6:00 to 8:00 pm. |