MATH1011 Applications of Calculus

General Information

MATH1011 is a Junior (or first-year) unit forming part of the fundamental Mathematics stream.

Important: Please note that all students considering enrolling in MATH1011 should try the Both quizzes are multiple choice and questions may be attempted as many times as you like.

Students enrolled in MATH1011 should find both of these tests straightforward and be able to obtain correct answers to most of the questions on the first attempt, without help and without using a calculator.

Students who find either of these quizzes difficult should contact the First Year Director, David Easdown, immediately for advice (preferably by email).

You may also view the Faculty Handbook entry for MATH1011

Information sheet for MATH1011

All students should read the information sheet. The information includes (for example) details of the assessment procedure, including dates of assessment tasks.

Answers to frequently asked questions

See the main junior mathematics page for information relating to all junior mathematics units, and see in particular the Junior Maths FAQ page.

Online Resources

Links to online resources for this unit of study will be added here during the teaching session.

Exam information

Pre-exam consultation times are as follows:
  • Friday June 7 12pm-2pm, Carslaw 723, Emma Carberry
  • Tuesday June 18 12pm-2pm, Carslaw 707A, Ross Ogilvie
  • Friday June 21 4pm-6pm, Carslaw 829, Emma Carberry
  • Monday June 24 10am-12pm, Carslaw 707A, Clinton Boys
You can find a copy of the exam front page here.

Past exam papers from before 2012 can be downloaded from the library webpage. The 2012 exam is available here. Here are the solutions:

Practice for Quiz 2

Quiz 2 will be held in your assigned tutorial in the week commencing Monday 27 May. You must sit the quiz during the tutorial in which you are enrolled for your quiz mark to be recorded. Practice questions can be found here. Solutions can be found here.

Note: the quiz is on the material from lectures 9-17, which correspond to tutorials weeks 7-11.

Assignment

The assignment is now available here. It is due at 4pm on Wednesday, 15th May. It should be posted in the locked collection boxes on the verandah of Carslaw Level 3. These boxes are at the end of the verandah closest to Eastern Avenue. (NOT the locked collection boxes near the pyramids on Carslaw Level 3, nor the open pigeonholes.) If you need to submit your assignment early, you can post your assignment in these boxes Monday 13th, Tuesday 14th or Wednesday 15th. Your assignment must be stapled inside a manilla folder, on the front of which you should write the initial of your family name as a LARGE letter.

A cover sheet (get it here) must be signed and attached. See page 25 of the Junior Mathematics Handbook for further information re submission of assignments. In particular, please use a black or blue pen, not pencil. Assignments without a cover sheet, or in the incorrect format, may not be marked.

Practice for Quiz 1

Quiz 1 will be held in your assigned tutorial in the week commencing Monday 22 April. You must sit the quiz during the tutorial in which you are enrolled for your quiz mark to be recorded. Practice questions can be found here; solutions can be found here (updated 19/4/13).

Note: the quiz is on the material from the first 5 weeks of lectures (Lectures 1-8), which correspond to the first 5 tutorials (Tutorials Weeks 2-6).

Correction to printed notes

Please download a corrected version of pages 13 and 15 of the printed course notes here. This corrects some minor typographical errors on pages 13 and 15.

Maths Learning Centre

Extra help in Junior Mathematics units is available for some students from the Mathematics Learning Centre - see here for more information.

Lecture slides

Handwritten lecture notes

The handwritten notes are what was acually written in lectures using the visualiser. This is very similar in both the 8am and 11am streams, so unless there are substantial differences, we only post one version.
* Students from the 8am lecture on Friday 10/5 should compare their notes to this scan which I have corrected, as a mistake in my notes resulted in a slight confusion in the financial example -- Clinton, 10/5/13.

You can also find Emma's notes for the second half of the course from last year here. This is intended as an extra resource, and the details of included content may differ this year so please use the lecture notes above as your main study materials!

Additional material

From time to time additional material will be posted here.
  • These notes give you a quick method for plotting surfaces of revolution. This material is optional in that we won't require you to plot in this way, but when this method applies it is much faster than using contour lines or slices.
  • These notes give some additional examples of word problems.

Tutorials and Solutions

It is very important that you genuinely attempt the questions marked Questions to complete BEFORE the tutorial before your timetabled tutorial.

You should wait until before your tutorial class to print out the sheet, as the sheets may change throughout the semester and updated versions will be posted below.

Check your marks

Please check that your mark for Quiz 1, Assignment and Quiz 2 have been recorded correctly by entering your 9 digit SID into the box below and then pressing the "Check marks" button.

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Please note that any corrections to Quiz 1 marks must be made by Thursday 23 May 2013.
Please note that any corrections to Assignment marks must be made by Wednesday 12 June 2013
Please note that any corrections to Quiz 2 marks must be made by Thursday 20 June 2013.

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