Home Page for Math 1LS03: Calculus for Life Sciences  Summer 2009



Textbook:  Modeling the Dynamics of Life,  Frederick Adler, published by Nell Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2008
                  ISBN10: 0176476342

Instructor: Dr. Salih Azgin, HH409
Course meeting time/place: Tuesday 19:00 - 22:00 / BSB-B 135
E-mail: sazgin at math dot mcmaster dot ca
Office Hours: Monday 15:00-16:30, Wednesday 14:30-16:00

TA: Yao Wang,   wangy94 at mcmaster.ca
TA Office Hours: 12:00-13:30 Tuesdays, held behind the Math Cafe by the entrance of Hamilton Hall                           

Consult the  course information sheet  for more detailed information. 

Thanks to our TA (and the students who brought this to his attention), I have found out 
that there is an online solutions manual of the book, follow this link. On the tep left 
there is a pull-down menu where you can select the chapter and on the left frame 
you can click on "exercise answers" to get the solutions to exercise of that chapter.

FINAL EXAM ANNOUNCEMENT:

The final will be on Wednesday June 17th between 7-10pm. There are three
exam locations. Students are assigned to exam rooms according to last name
as follows:

Last Name:                             Exam Room
Abdallah --- Farran                  T13 / 106
Fong  --- Murji                         T13 / 107
Nagy --- Zhang                        BSB /  B135

 

Planned course schedule (subject to revision):  



Dates
 Material Covered Homework
May 4
 Introduction and 1.2
 HW1: 1.2: 1--14, 17--32
May 6  1.3, 1.4, 1.5 HW2: 1.3: 1--10, 23--26
          1.4: 7--12, 17--24, 39--42
          1.5: 1--8, 25, 49,50
May 11
  Quiz 1 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 HW3: 1.6: 3--10, 19--28
          1.7: 21--30, 47--54, (1--20 suggested for practice)
          1.8: 7--14, 21--36
May 13
  2.1, 2.2, 2.3 HW4: 2.1: 1--6
          2.2: 13--24
          2.3: 11--20
May 18
  Victoria Day 
May 20  2.4, 2.5
MIDTERM I (1.1--2.3 inclusive) 		HW5: 2.4: 5--10, 17-30
          2.5: 1--12, 21--26
May 25
  2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10
 HW6: 2.6: 1--12, 15,16
          2.7: 1--8, 11--18
          2.8: 1--18
          2.9: 1-22 
          2.10: 1--8          
May 27
 Quiz 2 3.3, 3.5, 3.6 HW7: 3.3: 1--5, 6--11, 13--17
          3.5: 1--14
          3.6: 1--16 (apply L'H. only)
June 1
  3.8 (only Newton's Method), problem solving from Chapters 2 & 3
 No homework for this lecture.
June 3
 4.2  MIDTERM II (Chapters 2 and 3)
 HW8: 4.2: 1--20 (no graphing for 15-20)
June 8
 4.3, 4.4, 4.5  HW9: 4.3: 1--24
           4.4: 5, 7, 9--16
           4.5: 1--24
June 10
 4.6, 4.7 Quiz 3 HW9:  4.6: 1--5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15
           4.7: 5--10
June 15 Problem Solving/Review
June 17  FINAL