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Calculus B, Math 280
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

  1. Seeing students.
  2. Commenting on homework.
  3. Getting ready for class.
  4. Doing mathematics.
  5. Seeing my family.
  6. Being present on, and experiencing, the world God created.

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:

Online Review of Calc A: Several years ago, I put together a set of fairly complete lectures for Calculus A. The start page for thsee online notes 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 was important in Calc A.

Printed Resources: Some 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. Others are Maple worksheets. These have to be opened by Maple after you right-click (or control-click) on them and do a "Save As".

  1. The syllabus for this course.
  2. Thoughts on Academic Integrity.
  3. Introduction to Sage.
  4. Sage Calculus Commands.
  5. Homework 1, due Wednesday, January 26.
  6. Homework 1 solutions.
  7. Lab 1, due Monday, January 24.
  8. My Talk from Lab 1, a possibly useless reference.
  9. Lab 1 Solutions as a pdf file.
  10. Lab 2.
  11. Lab 2 Solutions.
  12. Homework 2, due Friday, February 4.
  13. Homework 2 solutions.
  14. Homework 3, due Monday, February 21.
  15. Homework 3 solutions.
  16. Lab 4.
  17. Lab 4 Solutions.
  18. Homework 4, due Monday, February 28.
  19. Homework 4 solutions.
  20. Lab 5.
  21. Lab 5 Solutions.
  22. Homework 5, due Friday, March 25.
  23. Homework 5 solutions.
  24. Last year's Test 1, both parts.
  25. Test 1, in class.
  26. Test 1, in class, solutions.
  27. Test 1, take home.
  28. Test 1, take home, solutions.
  29. Homework 6, due Friday, April 1.
  30. Homework 6 solutions.
  31. Last year's Test 2.
  32. Test 2.
  33. Test 2 solutions.
  34. Homework 7.
  35. Homework 7 solutions.
  36. Lab 6.
  37. Homework 8, due with the final.
  38. A Sage Worksheet showing how to plot slope fields and solutions of differential equations.
  39. Last year's final.

Tim McLarnan,
Tremewan Professor of Mathematics
Earlham College,
Richmond, IN 47374 USA


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