| MTH 141 Calculus I |
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Text: Hughes-Hallet, et. al., Calculus, (SECOND Edition)
Supplement: Cheung, et. al., Getting Started with Maple
Prerequisites: MTH 111 or equivalent
Calculators: A graphing calculator is required. (TI-85 recommended but
others may be suitable too.)
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See below for advice about Maple printing in campus labs. |
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Introduction
MTH 141 is a demanding course for students who later may be using
calculus professionally. Average students should expect to spend about 8
hours per week (2 hours per credit hour) outside of class on this course.
Information and material for this course is available from the Web home
page listed above. Consult it occasionally for updates.
We will use Maple V Release 5 in this course. Maple is a powerful
mathematics software system. The Maple software is available in the campus
computer labs. It can also be purchased from the
RI Book Company at the
Kingston Emporium at a special highly discounted price for use on your own
personal computer. Our work with Maple will be organized into Maple
Worksheets that you can download from the web site and which are also
available in the campus computer labs. These worksheets contain the
information you need to get started using Maple. You will find more information below.
Students must have graphing calculators. We recommend the TI-85. Your
instuctor will be able to help you and transfer programs for you to use with
that calculator, but may not be able to assist you with other graphing
calculators.
Exams and Evaluation
Three common hour tests will be given, Wednesday evenings from 6:00 -
7:30, in the weeks indicated on the syllabus. They will
account for 3/8 of the course grade. Sample tests for students' practice
will be given prior to the hour tests. The seven Maple worksheets will
count 1/8 of the grade. A common final exam counting 2/8 of the grade will
be given at a time to be announced later. The remaining 2/8 of the grade
will be based on class work (homework, quizzes, etc.) as determined by your
instructor. Hopefully, each instructor will collect some homework. In any
case, students should read the text, work the problems listed on the
syllabus, and complete the Maple .mws worksheets. Final letter grades
will reflect competence and will not be "curved" for this professional
course. Passing is 60%.
Tips for success! (Click here)
We will use Maple V Release 5 in this course. Maple is a powerful
mathematics software system with which you can plot graphs, perform algebraic
manipulations, do numerical calculations, and write programs. You will learn
to use Maple in MTH141 and continue using it in further mathematics
courses. Your calculus text came bundled with a book,
Getting Started with Maple that will serve as a Maple reference and
introduction.
The Maple software is available in the campus computer labs and can be purchased
from the
RI Book Company at Kingston Emporium at a special highly discounted price for use on your personal
computer.
Our work with Maple will be organized into Maple Worksheets which you
will be able to download from this site and will also be available in the
campus computer labs.
Click below to download an introductory worksheet.
Save the file to either your hard drive (if you have
Maple on your own computer) or a floppy disk if you will be using Maple elsewhere (most
likely in one of the campus labs). You can then start Maple and open the saved file.
How to use Maple in URI computer labs
How to submit worksheets as homework.
Download
introductory Maple Worksheet (intro41.mws) .
ADVICE ON MAPLE PRINTING IN CAMPUS LABS
Download
"More on Plotting"(moreplot.mws)
Download
"Rates of Change"(rates.mws)
Download
"Using Derivatives"(usederive.mws)
Download "Optimization Problems:Finding fast routes"(optim.mws) .
Download
"The Definite Integral"(defint.mws)
Download
"First Order Differential Equations"(diffeqs.mws)
Download
"Maple Summary"(summary.mws)
If you have Maple on your computer you can configure your browser to launch
Maple whenever you download a
worksheet. You must indicate to your browser that a file with extension .mws
should launch the application WMAPLE.EXE which is probably located at
\MapleVR5\bin.wnt\. If you are using Internet Explorer, respond
to the dialog box by indicating that you want to open the file from the
current location.
Course Information
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