MTH 1108 Basic Calculus 2

Winter 2001 Homepage


Course Information



Brief description: Math 1108 offers a review and continuation of differential calculus, graphing and differentiation of trigonometric functions. The main portion of the course is an introduction to integral calculus with applications to geometric problems, to motion, and to problems involving the connection between rates of change and amounts. Special differential equations are introduced, whose applications include heating and cooling, drug absorption and population growth.

Who takes this course?  The course is usually taken as the last required mathematics course for majors in health sciences as pharmacy, physical therapy; in geology, psychology (optional choice), biology (with permission of advisor; there is a more specialized sequence available), journalism, economics, and criminal justice. It differs from other integral calculus courses in combining integral calculus with the introduction to certain differential equations useful in applications. It is less technical than the engineering sequence, and less theoretical than the math/physics major sequence, both of which require computer labs (unlike MTH 1108). Worksheets may offer applications that are relevent to your major; the course usually either prepares for later courses in your major (as in health sciences), or is intended to give you a general understanding of the concepts underlying calculus and its applications (as for journalism majors).

Prerequisites:  MTH 1107, Basic Calculus I (differential calculus), or equivalent. You probably want to have a grade at least C- level in MTH 1107 to go on to MTH 1108. Some students have taken their Calculus I some time ago: the first week of MTH 1108 includes some review of differential calculus, and you can judge how well you remember. Feel free to talk with your instructor or the course coordinator about your readiness for the course.

For syllabi, and information specific to your section, please see links by your instructor below. There are two syllabi, one for the sections using the Gover text, and a different one for the section requiring the graphing caculator, and using the Ostabee-Zorn text.




Catalog Listing: MTH 1108, Basic Calculus 2. (This link may be useful if you are comparing this course with other courses offered by the Mathematics Department).
Course Coordinator Prof. Anthony Iarrobino, phone:x5524; office:526 NI,e-mail:iarrobin@neu.edu.
Instructors:(to be completed by Jan 3)
All sections but Prof. Iarrobino Syllabus, 
Prof. Anthony Iarrobino,  Graphing Calculator Section, syllabus and info    GC Section Class Notes. 
Classroom: Section 1: Place TBA, Time: Seq. 1. MWTh 8AM (Key#?)




Policy on Calculators: A scientific calculator (trig functions, log, exponentials) is required for all sections. A graphing caculator is permitted in all sections, and is required in the Graphing Calculator (GC) Section of Prof. Iarrobino.
Grading: Each instructor will pass out an information street containing the grading policy for his/her section. Each will have quizzes and exams, and possibly graded homework counting 60%, and the departmental final will count 40% (50% if that should help the grade).
Final Exam:The final exam for all sections of Math 1108 in Winter 2001, is TBA (this info will be available by Jan 5) You are expected to take into account your final exam schedule, in making your travel and other plans for the end of the quarter. It will be a departmental final exam required of all, that will count 40% of your grade (or 50% if that improves your course grade); several problems will be different for the GC section. Old finals are available at the Math Dept office, 567 Lake Hall, and Sample Problem for the final will be handed out before the last weeks of class. There will be a table of integrals and formulas at the back of the Final Exam, calculators are allowed, it is a 2 hour exam.

Alternate Final:   An alternate final on a different day will be given if you have three exams in a day, or a conflict with another final: the registrar has requested that an application for a conflict final be filed during the first week of classes. Any other reason for an alternate final must be approved by the course coordinator in advance: normally, vacation travel is not a sufficient reason. The alternate final is never easier than the main final exam. You may not take the main final exam after you have taken the alternate final. The day for an alternate final is arranged in advance with your instructor and the course coordinator.

Further course material on web
:  We will have here links to some worksheets, and to a ``Sample Final'', an extended problem sheet to help you prepare for the final. Also, we will announce in classes and here a coursewide review session either last week of classes, or early in exam week.

Amount from Flow Notes (Handout)

Amount/Flow Worksheet #3C (pdf) (Includes formulas for Riemann sums).

Solutions to Amount/Flow Worksheet #3C (pdf)

Mathematical Models Handout (pdf) (information about modelling and the three main Differential Equations studied in Math 1108)

Quiz on differential equations, separation of variables, Newton's law of Cooling (pdf) (Prof. Suciu, 1999)

Solved quiz on differential equations, separation of variables, Newton's law of Cooling (pdf) (Prof. Suciu, 1999)


Sample Quiz 4B (Newton's Law of Cooling; Flow and Amount (all sections)

Solutions to Sample Quiz 4B (NLC, Flow and amount)

Solutions to WS#4 (NLC, logistic Diff Equtation, separation of variables in Diff Eqn.)  *NEW!


Problems to Help Prepare for the Final Exam

Solved Final from Winter 1999

ANSWERS TO WINTER OO GC FINAL (this is close to the Gover text sample final passed out: but problem #3, especially, is different)



Prof. Suciu's Spring 99 Math 1108 page (contains sample quizzes, exams, relevent especially for non-graphing calculator sections -- those using the Gover text).

Math Tutoring Free, at NU, available to Math 1108 students. Also your instructor is available in office hours or by appointment.



Links  to other calculus resources on the web:

Visual Calculus (U. Tenn)

Your comments:  If you have some other web or reference resources you find useful, or comments on what you would like to see here, please let us know: iarrobin@neu.edu, donking@neu.edu.



Undergraduate Math Course Catalog Descriptions

Undergraduate Math Course Syllabi

Mathematics Dept. home page



Created: December 30, 1999, by A. Iarrobino. Last modified: Dec. 26, 2000. URL:http://www.math.neu.edu/~iarrobino/math1108