MATH104 – 921

Differential Calculus with Applications to Commerce and Social Sciences

Instructor: Ida Karimfazli
Lectures: Mon. 1-2pm, Tues., Wed. & Thurs. 1-3pm in LSK 200
Office hours: Mon. 2-2:30pm, Tues., Wed. & Thurs. 3-3:30pm
TA: Matthew Yeung (email: matthew.yeung (at) alumni.ubc.ca)
You can find a copy of the course outline here.
WeBWork assignments: Each week there will be an online homework set. This corresponds to 10% of your final grade. You will be able to access this directly following this link. Use your CWL to log in.
Other resources: You can find the old exams here. Also checkout the online textbook by Gilbert StrangContemporary Calculus by Dale Hoffman (available for free under the Creative Commons license) and the online book and lectures on mooculus by this team.

Regrade request
If you think your quiz was not graded accurately, please download the Regrade Form, attach it to your quiz and give it to me by June 16. Do not write anything on the quiz. Add your notes only on the regrade form.

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Jim Simons: A rare interview with the mathematician who cracked Wall Street
A bit more about Jim Simons from wiki:
“James Harris “Jim” Simons (born 1938) is an American mathematician, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is a code breaker and studies pattern recognition.
Simons was a professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University and was also the former chair of the Mathematics Department at Stony Brook.
In 1982, Simons founded Renaissance Technologies, a private hedge fund investment company based in New York with over $25 billion under management. Simons retired at the end of 2009 as CEO of one of the world’s most successful hedge fund companies. Simons’ net worth is estimated to be $14 billion.”

Week6: Quiz4 (with solutions),
Play with Taylor Polynomials!
Suggested problems from the textbook:

section 4.4: 5, 7, 19, 21, 22, 29, 31, 37, 47, 57, 62, 63
section 4.5 : 13, 15, 19, 21, 22, 25, 33, 35, 37, 51, 53
section 9.1: 7, 9, 13, 17, 19, 27, 45
WebWork due 10pm, 19/06/16
Week5: Quiz3 (with solutions),
Horizontal and vertical asymptotes,
Guidelines for graphing functions and solving optimization problems,
Practice problems,
Suggested problems from the textbook:
section 2.4: 9, 13, 19, 20, 33, 46, 52
section 2.5: 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 24, 41, 55, 59, 61
section 4.2: 11, 13, 21, 25, 26, 29, 37, 39, 41, 45, 57, 61, 63, 85, 87, 101
section 4.3: 7, 9, 13, 15, 19, 23, 29, 49, 51, 57, 58, 59, 73
WeBWork due 10pm, 12/06/16 quiz 4 on 13/06/16
Week4: Quiz2 (with solutions),
Slides on local & global extrema,
Suggested problems from the textbook:

section 3.6: 19, 25, 26, 27
section 3.11: 7, 15, 17, 19, 21, 25, 29, 37, 44, 53
section 4.1: 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 31, 33, 35, 48,  51, 55, 57, 61, 63, 77, (for fun: 81)
From this document: 1, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 22, 25, 28, 30, 31, 36
WeBWork due 10pm, 05/06/16,
Notes on growth rates and continuous compounding
quiz 3 on 06/06/16
Week3: Quiz1 (with solutions)
Suggested problems from the textbook:
section 3.6: 7, 11, 21, 29, 31, 37, 39, 45, 47
section 3.7: 2, 9, 11, 14, 23, 29, 36, 47, 49, 59, 65, 97
section 3.8: 2, 3, 5, 11, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29, 35, 39, 41, 49, 53, 77, 86
section 3.9: 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25, 29, 37, 45, 47, 49, 65, 90
section 3.10: 7, 9, 15, 23, 29, 33, 43, 53
 WeBWork due 10pm, 29/05/16,  quiz 2 on 30/05/16
Week2: Examples on continuity and tangent lines,
Suggested problems from the textbook:

section 2.6: 7, 9, 20, 45, 58, 64, 73, 84, 85
section 3.2: 7, 9, 10, 15, 19
section 3.3: 21, 24, 35, 38, 42, 49, 53, 61, 72
section 3.4: 7, 10, 12, 14, 23-25, 54, 58, 60, 72, 79
section 3.5: 17-31, 62, 65, 77
WeBWork due 10pm, 22/05/16, quiz 1 on 24/05/16.
Week1: Illustration of average and instantaneous rates of change(33-sec video),
Supplementary notes on demand equation, revenue, cost and profit,
Introductory slides on limits.
Suggested problems from the textbook:

section 1.3:  5, 11, 16, 18, 19, 27, 47, 49, 55, 70, 71, 72, 79, 81, 91
section 2.1:
5, 11
section 2.2:
2, 5, 10, 21, 23, 27, 45, 46
section 2.3: 10, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 44, 46, 49, 68, 69

WeBWork due 17/05/16, no quiz on 16/05/16.