MATH1009 Calculus for Business and Economics, Summer 2008
Instructors: Dr Robert Bailey (e-mail) and Zhengmin Zhang (e-mail).
Telephone: 613-520-2600 x8999.
FINAL GRADES: These will be made available on Carleton Central once they have
been approved by the Deans' Office. I am not able to confirm your
grades before that happens (sorry!).
Teaching Assistants: Justin Ngo (e-mail) and Kyle Harvey (e-mail).
Course information
Lectures: Tuesday, 8.00–9.00pm and Thursday,
8.00–10.00pm, Mackenzie Building 3275.
Tutorials: Tuesday, 9.00pm–10.00pm, Mackenzie Building
3356 (section A1)/Mackenzie Building 3174 (section A2).
- If your LAST NAME (i.e. family name) begins with the letter
A–K, join section A1.
- If your LAST NAME (i.e. family name) begins with the letter
L–Z, join section A2.
Instructor office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 7.00pm–8.00pm, HP 5218.
TA office hours: Monday 5.00pm–6.00pm, HP1160 (Justin
Ngo); Wednesday 5.00pm–7.00pm, HP1175 and 7.00pm–9.00pm,
HP1160 (Kyle Harvey). (Note that these are shared with other courses:
MATH students have priority 7.00pm–9.00pm.)
Required textbook
Tan: Applied Calculus for the Managerial, Life and Social Sciences, 7th
edition. (The 6th edition is also acceptable.)
Tutorial exercises
Selected exercises from the textbook will be listed here for you to
attempt before the tutorials. You should attempt a reasonable number of
these (and there are plenty more in the book you can try as well!).
Term marks
Click here for a list of test marks,
indexed by student ID.
Tests
There will be four tests during the term, each lasting 50 minutes, which
will take place during the tutorials on 3rd and 17th June, and 8th and
22nd July. The best three out of four marks will be counted towards the
overall grade.
Final exam
The final exam will take place on FRIDAY 15th AUGUST, 7.00–10.00pm, in room TB208 (in the Tory Building).
The date and venue are set by the university, and the instructors have no control over this, and no power to change it!
Course overview
- Functions; limits; continuous functions; derivatives.
- Differentiation; product and quotient rules; marginal functions in
economics; higher-order derivatives; implicit differentiation.
- Applications of the first and second derivative; curve sketching;
optimization.
- Exponential and logarithmic functions; differentiation of them;
exponential models.
- Functions of several variables; partial derivatives; maxima and
minima; Lagrange multipliers.
- Antiderivatives; integration; the Fundamental Theorem of
Calculus.
Page last updated: 22nd August 2008.
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