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Calculus A, Math 180
Tim McLarnan
Disclaimer: Welcome to this page, such as it is. I'll try to
keep at least some course material accessible here, but the pickings
are likely to be pretty slim. I'm at Earlham in significant part
because I think the right way to do mathematics and to engage in
scholarship is as a member of a community of scholars working together
in small groups in person. It's difficult for me to see how that
process is enhanced by my taking large amounts of my time producing
web pages. Time spent writing web pages is time not spent
- Seeing students.
- Commenting on homework.
- Getting ready for class.
- Doing mathematics.
- Seeing my family.
- Being present on, and experiencing, the world.
My personal sense is that those tasks count more than web pages, and
I've normally allocated my time accordingly. I'll probably do the same
this semester.
Additionally, I don't particularly enjoy working with the
web, in part because it has never been, and is not now, an environment
that's very friendly to the 2-dimensional language of mathematics.
Now that I've said that, here's what is available on this page:
Imaginary Schedule: Here
is my current fantasy about what we'll do each day of the
semester.
Online Notes: The start page for the online notes for this
class is
http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~timm/InCalc/ . These notes don't follow
Stewart's text terribly closely, and they have some typos and
typesetting oddities; but they are an accurate and concise
account of what I think is important in this class. I hope they'll
be useful to you, and I welcome comments on them.
Printed Resources: Most of these are in PDF format, since
using TeX followed by dvipdfm is one of the few paths to
decent-looking mathematical text on the web.
- The syllabus for this course.
- Thoughts
on Academic Integrity.
- Homework 1, due Wednesday, September 2.
- Homework 1 Solutions.
- Homework 2, due Friday, September 11.
- Homework 2 Solutions.
- Lab 1, due Monday, Sept. 14.
- Lab 1 Solutions as a pdf file.
- Homework 3, due Monday, Sept. 21.
- Homework 3 Solutions.
- Lab 2.
- Lab 2 Solutions as a pdf file.
- Homework 4.
- Homework 4 Solutions.
- Lab 3.
- Lab 3 Solutions as a pdf file.
- Test 1 Solutions.
- Test 1 Makeup Solutions.
- Homework 5.
- Homework 5 Solutions.
- Homework 6.
- Homework 6 Solutions.
- Lab 4.
- Lab 4 Solutions as a pdf file.
- Homework 7.
- Homework 7 Solutions.
- Last year's Test 2, in-class part.
- Last year's Test 2, take-home part.
- Test 2 Solutions.
- Homework 8.
- Homework 8 Solutions.
- Homework 9.
Sage-related Stuff:
- Tim's
Sage Intro as a PDF file. This document is also available as a
published Sage Worksheet on
sagenb.org/.
- Sage stuff rom the lab on
9/7/2009.
Maple Documents: Maple is a commercial competitor to
Sage that some of you may choose to use. To read these
worksheets, you'll want to do a "Save As" and open these in Maple.
- Tim's
Maple Intro as a Maple worksheet. You'll need to do a "Save As"
on this and open it in Maple.
- Tim's
Maple Intro as a PDF file. All the same information and readable
without Maple, but you'll have to retype things to get
Maple to read it.
- How to set up Maple 12 in
D224.
Tim McLarnan,
Tremewan Professor of Mathematics
Earlham College,
Richmond, IN 47374 USA
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