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Precalculus with Trigonometry Fall 2008 | |||
| Contact Information | Important Dates | ||
| Professor: | Dr. Scott Nollet | Exam 1 | Friday, September 26 |
| Office: | 310 TTC | ||
| Office Hours: | MTRF 3:00pm-5:00 and by appointment. | Exam 2 | Friday, October 24 |
| Office Phone: | 257-6339 | ||
| Home Phone: | 920-7988 | Exam 3 | Friday, November 21 |
| E-mail: | s.nollet@tcu.edu | ||
| Class Hours: | MF 1:00-1:50, TR 12:30-1:20 352 TTC |
Final Exam | December 17
11:30am-2:00pm |
| Pre-requisites: | Math 10023 or two years of high school algebra. | ||
| Text: Algebra and Trigonometry (7th edition) by Larson and Hostetler (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). |
| Calculator: TI-83s and TI-86s are fine, but no calculators with symbolic manipulation can be used on the exams (such as the TI-89 or TI-92). |
| Course Goals: My goal is to prepare the student for the calculus sequence: The material in this course is often the main obstacle to students doing well in calculus. It includes basic algebra, dealing with equations and inequalities, functions and graphs, asymptotes, the exponential and logarithmic functions and the trigonometric functions. |
| Topics: Algebra, equations, inequalities, graphs, functions, polynomials and their roots, rational functions, exponential and logarithm functions, trig functions and trig identities. |
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Grades:
Grades will be based on Homework/Quizzes (20%), three Exams
(15% each - tentative dates are listed above) and the Final Exam (35%).
I will regularly assign homework and encourage you to work on it and
discuss it with your classmates, but you should not show other students
your actual written work (this can lead to mindless copying).
The quizzes will take place with great frequency and may not
be made up without an official university excuse.
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| Course Website: I will maintain this website for our course; it will contain homework assignments (possibly solutions), and other useful information. The address is http://faculty.tcu.edu/snollet/courses/precalc.html. |
| Students with Disabilities: If you are eligible for academic adjustments, you see the Coordinator for Students with Disabilities (Marsha Ramsey, Ph.D. She can be found at Sadler Hall 11, phone extension 7486) and find out how to proceed. This should be done as soon as possible. Without a letter from her office, I can make no special allowances. |
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Homework Assignments | ||||
| HW # | Section | Date Due | Quiz dates | |
| 1 | P.1 | #24-26(bc), 46-50,83,84 | Thursday, August 23 | 9/2 |
| 2 | P.2 | #28,30,34,80-82,85,86,95,96 | Tuesday, September 2 | 9/2 |
| 3 | P.3 | #36,53,64,65,68,92,101,102,104,105 | Thursday, September 4 | 9/5 |
| 4 | P.4 | #19,26,42,43,66,67,109-112 | Thursday, September 4 | 9/5 |
| 5 | P.5 | #19,22,36,38,47,50-52,69,70 | Friday, September 5 | 9/8 |
| 6 | P.6 | #50-53 (extra credit) | Monday, September 8 | |
| 7 | P.7 | #2,4,13,14,28,29,35-38 | Tuesday, September 9 | |
| 8 | 1.1 | #7,10,20,23,24,40,51,56,61,62 | Friday, September 12 | 9/12 |
| 9 | 1.2 | #29,30,44,45,54-56,76-78 | Monday, September 15 | 9/15 |
| 10 | 1.3 | #19,20,29-32,49-52 | Tuesday, September 16 | |
| 11 | 1.4 | #8,11,28,29,37,42,77,84,99,100 | Thursday, September 18 | 9/18 |
| 12 | 1.6 | #13,15,34,39,41,42,58,66-68 | Monday, September 22 | 9/22 |
| 13 | 1.7 | #31,32,37,38,42,51,53,54,58,60 | Tuesday, September 23 | 9/23 |
| 14 | 1.8 | #14,20,21,44,47-49,57-59 | Friday, September 26 | |
| 15 | 2.1 | #4,15,41,44,54,67,68,70,71,90 | Tuesday, September 30 | 10/2 |
| 16 | 2.2 | #36,37,43,53,54,64,67,70,80,83 | Friday, October 3 | |
| 17 | 2.3 | #3,6,18,21,33,36,69-72 | Monday, October 6 | 10/6 |
| 18 | 2.4 | #3,4,30,31,45-48 | Tuesday, October 14 | 10/14 |
| 19 | 2.5 | #7,8,11,12, 25abc, 32abc, 51-54 | Tuesday, October 14 | 10/14 |
| 20 | 2.6 | #9-11,35,36,41,42,48-50 | Thursday, October 16 | |
| 21 | 2.7 | #14,17,20,23,29,30,39,42,46,49 | Friday, October 17 | 10/17 |
| 22 | 3.1 | #21-24,39-44 | Monday, October 20 | |
| 23 | 3.2 | #10,11,15,18,36,37,38,77-79 | October | |