Instructor: Jie Shen

Textbook:

(1) James Stewart: Calculus - Early Transcendentals, 6th edition
(2) WebAssign access code

You can buy the NEW Purdue Custom edition (from the University Bookstore or Follett's). It comes with the WebAssign online access code which allows you to have three (need not be consecutive) semesters' access. Alternatively, you can also buy the book anywhere else and purchase the online access code for one, two or three semesters' access. The online access is equipped with the Stewart eBook option.

Some Useful Web-Sites

General Information about MA 166 (from the Department of Mathematics):
for general information and past exam archive.

WebAssign Purdue student login page.
(Note: the student login page is http://www.webassign.net/purdue/login.html.
Please use your Purdue Career Account username and password.
The site http://www.webassign.net is for instructors only.)

Some tips about using WebAssign.
(Note: as a rule of thumb, always input exact mathematical expression, no approximations (by using calculators) unless otherwise told by the questions. Capital and small letter variables Phi, phi, Pi, pi, Theta, theta and so forth are treated as different variables.)

Course Syllabus:

Assignment Sheet

Ground Rules

Your weekly activities include:
online homeworks (submitted through WebAssign, due at 10pm);
review exercise (from Assignment sheet, to be handed in during recitation);
quiz (during recitation).

Test One: 6:30-7:30pm, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011
Test Two: 6:30-7:30pm, Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2011
Test Three: 8:00-9:00pm, Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2011
(The dates to be cancelled due to the above evening exams will be announced later.)

How is your final course grade determined?

Additional Information:

Extra information will be gradually posted here and in WebAssign.