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Math 3A -- Calculus for Life Sciences
Winter 2007

Time: MWF 10am - 10:50am
Place: MS 4000A
Textbook: Neuhauser, Calculus for Biology and Medicine, 2nd Ed, Prentice Hall
Instructor: Jason DeVita
Office: MS 7619E
Email: jason@math.ucla.edu
Office Hours:   M 11am-12:30pm, W 12:30pm-2pm, or by appointment

Course syllabus:
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jason/3a.2.07w/syllabus.html

Homework
Homework will be assigned approximately weekly. Each homework will be due one week after it is assigned. Students are encouraged to work together on the homeworks, but each student must submit his/her own work.

Late homework will not be accepted. The lowest homework grade for the term will be dropped.

HW #1 (due Friday January 19):   section 2.2: 6, 22, 40, 76, 78
section 3.1: 14, 24, 40, 46, 48 		solutions
HW #2 (due Friday January 26): section 3.2: 8, 10, 20, 24, 36, 38
section 3.3: 2, 8, 14
section 3.4: 4c, 6, 12, 14 		solutions
HW #3 (due Monday February 5): section 3.5: 4, 6, 8
section 4.1: 14, 18, 20, 22, 34, 46, 48, 52, 56, 58
solutions
HW #4 (due Friday February 9): section 4.2: 4, 26, 44, 50
section 4.3: 2, 48, 50, 78
section 4.4: 8, 18, 34, 50, 56		 solutions
HW #5 (due Friday February 16): section 4.4: 66, 70, 76, 80
section 4.5: 28, 38, 66, 72
section 4.6: 10, 34, 44, 56		 solutions
HW #6 (due Friday February 23): section 4.7: 10, 20, 48, 70, 76
section 4.8: 6, 10, 12, 46, 48		 solutions
HW #7 (due Monday March 5): section 5.1: 10, 12, 20, 32, 36, 42, 46, 52
section 5.2: 2, 12, 16, 30		 solutions
HW #8 (due Friday March 9): section 5.3: 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 42 solutions
HW #9 (due Friday March 16): section 5.4: 6, 10, 12, 18
section 5.5: 2, 6, 12, 18, 32, 34		 solutions

When you submit your homework, please make sure to include: your name, your student ID number, and your discussion section number.

Exams
Midterm 1: Friday, February 2
Midterm 2: Friday, March 2
Final: Friday, March 23, 8am-11am(exam code 03)
Exams will be closed book, closed notes. Calculators will not be permitted. Please bring a photo ID to the exam.

Mark these dates on your calendar. There will be no make-up exams. The final exam is mandatory. If you do not take the final, you will not pass the class.

Practice problems for midterm 1 Solutions
Practice problems for midterm 2 Solutions
Practice problems for the final exam Solutions



Grades:
Your grade for the course will be based on the maximum of the two schemes:
(1) 20% Homework; 20% Midterm 1; 20% Midterm 2; 40% Final
(2) 20% Homework; 20% Best of two midterms; 60% Final