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** Practice Midterm ** I have never taught MA 124 here at BU before, but a few years ago I taught MA 127, another calculus course which used a previous edition of the same textbook we're using this year. In order to give you some idea of the number and type of questions I might ask on a midterm I have put one of the midterm exams from that course here.

Instructor:

Professor C. Eugene Wayne

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

111 Cummington Street

Room 242

Phone: 617-353-1495

e-mail: cew@bu.edu

Office Hours:

Monday: 2:00-3:00pm

Wednesday: 9:45-10:45am

Friday: 9:45-10:45am

I encourage you to come to my office hours if you have any questions about the course. If you want to speak with me, but are unable to come to see me at any of my regular office hours, please let me know and we can schedule a mutually convenient time.

Short Description: Prereq: CAS MA 121 or MA 123. Students may receive credit for not more than one of the following courses: CAS MA 122, MA 124, MA 127, or MA 129. Logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric functions. Sequences and series; Taylor's series with the remainder. Methods of integration. Calculus I and II together constitute an introduction to calculus of a function of a single real variable. Note that in addition to this lecture, you must be registered for one of the five discussion sections for this course.

Textbook: The textbook for the course will be ``Calculus; Concepts & Concepts, 3E'' by J. Stewart, ISBN 0-534-40986-5.

Examinations: There will two midterm exams, on October 1, and November 2. The comprehensive final exam will be on Tuesday December 18 at 3:00 pm.

On the exams I will, of course, expect you to work alone and without outside assistance. However, I encourage you to work together on the homework assignments as I feel that discussing this material with other students is an excellent way of learning this subject. To reiterate, while you are encouraged to work together on the homework, you are to rely only on your own ideas and knowledge on the midterms and final exam, and the occasional quizzes that will take place in the discussion sections. Use of another individualÕs work, however it is communicated, is not permitted. Your work in this course is governed by BUÕs Academic Conduct Code (http://www.cs.bu.edu/ugradprogram/conduct.html) which you are expected to be familiar with and abide by. In particular, with the exception of working together on the homework assignments as explained above, all work you submit in this course must be you own, original work.

Grading: In addition to the examinations above, I will assign homework during lecture on Wednesdays. If you miss that lecture you are responsible for getting the homework from someone who was in class . There will also be occasional quizzes in the discussion sections. Sometimes, instead of a quiz I may collect homework in the discussion section. In this case you will need to turn in the homework that was assigned during the previous Wednesday's lecture. Your final grade will be determined according to the follow formula:

Homework and quizzes: 30%

Each Midterm: 20%

Final Exam: 30%

Week 1: Sections 5.2 and 5.4
Week 2: Section 5.4 (cont.), 5.5 and 5.6
Week 3: Sections 5.6 (cont.) and 5.8
Week 4: Sections 5.9, and 6.1
Week 5: Midterm 1; Sections 6.2 and 6.3
Week 6: Sections 6.4 and 6.5
Week 7: Sections 6.7 and 8.1
Week 8: Sections 8.1(cont.) and 8.2
Week 9: Sections 8.3 and 8.4
Week 10: Midterm 2; and Section 8.5
Week 11: Sections 8.6 and Sections 8.7
Week 12: Sections 8.7 (cont.) 8.8 and 8.9
Week 13: Sections 7.1 and 7.3
Week 14: Sections 7.4 and 7.5