COURSE SYLLABUS

 

Ohio Northern University

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics

 

 

                                                                                    Date: Fall/Winter/Spring 2007-08

 

Course  MATH – 163   Name:  Calculus 1

 

Credit hours: 4    Lecture hours/week: 4   Lab hours/week:  0

 

Instructor:  Staff

 

Usual student level:  Freshmen

 

Course required of students in:  Math, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry

 

Course frequency per year:  Fall, Winter, Spring

 

Average enrollment per year:  200

 

This course has a prerequisite:  Math 120 and Math 122, or equivalent (Precalculus)

 

This course is a prerequisite for:  Math 164 (Calculus 2)

 

Catalogue Description:

Limit of a function, continuity, the derivative, extrema, Mean Value Theorem, curve plotting, application of the derivative

 

Course Objectives:

To give students the necessary tools, concepts, and methods to work in engineering, science and mathematics

 

Textbook: Calculus, 6th  ed., by J. Stewart


Course Outline

MATH-163

Calculus 1

4 Credit Hours

 

Section            Topic                                                                           Days

 

Functions and Models (Selected topics)

1.1                    Four ways to represent a function                                    1

1.2                    Mathematical models + Review of Trigonometry           3 (Appendix D)

                                                                       

Limits and Rates of Change

2.2                    The limit of a function                                                         2

2.3                    Calculating limits using limit laws                                     2

2.5                    Continuity                                                                             1

 

Derivatives

3.1                    Derivatives                                                                            1

3.2                    The derivative as a function                                               2

3.3                    Differentiation formulas                                                       2

3.4                    Derivatives of trigonometric functions                             2

3.5                    Chain rule, review composition of functions                    3

3.6                    Implicit differentiation                                                          2

3.7 and 3.8        Rates of change, related rates                                           1

3.9                    Differentials (linear approx. is optional)                            .5

 

Applications of Differentiation

4.1                    Maximal and minimal values                                                2

4.2                    The Mean Value Theorem                                                   2

4.3                    How derivatives affect the shape of a graph                    2.5

4.4                    Limits at infinity; horizontal asymptotes                           2

4.5                    Summary of curve sketching                                               1

4.6                    Graphing with calculators (incorporated in previous sections)

4.7                    Optimization problems                                                          3

4.8                    Newtons method (optional)

 

 

This is a total of about 35 hours and about 5 hours are left for testing and reviews.