Course 1E1

Engineering Mathematics 1

CALCULUS


Dr. Sergey Cherkis


Office: 19.31 Hamilton Building
Office Hours: e-mail for appointment
Phone:  01 896 3453
E-mail: cherkis at maths.tcd.ie

Link to 1E2 LINEAR ALGEBRA
Past annual exams for the 1E1 course are at this link (choose Engineering Course and the year, select XMA1E1 on the next page).
You can navigate to this link by going to TCD home page> TCD Local Page> Exam Papers>Annual Examinations

Chapters covered during Michaelmas and Hilary terms:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8, 9 (sections 9.1 and 9.4), and 10.
All of this material can appear on the Hilary term exam.
For the Lecture notes after Lecture 22:
Login to WileyPlus, select Read, Study & Practice, Choose the correcponding chapter, look at the bottom of the list.
MIDTERM:

Hilary Term exam is
at 9:30 on Tuesday, 11 March 2008 in Sportshall
If you would like a different, more concise exposition,
you can download "Calculus" by Gilbert Strang at
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/Strang/strangtext.htm
Lecture Notes in PDF format are now available on WileyPlus.
Login to WileyPlus, select Read, Study & Practice > Appendices, select the lecture number.

Welcome! 
In order to pass this class you have to register and submit your weekly homework at the WileyPlus website.
You are required to purchase the textbook for this class which comes with an access code for the WileyPlus
or to purchase the WileyPlus access code alone.

Course's Web Page:

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~cherkis/1E1/
WileyPLUS Webpage is now available!

Once you have the registration code, login to corresponding website in the table below.
Your login is your e-mail address. You will need the password that was e-mailed to you and the Registration Code that comes with your textbook.

Make sure you login for the correct tutorial group.
Class Section Name Class Section URL (Student Login) 1S1 Tutorial Schedule
(Michaelmas Term Only)
 Your Tutor
Eng Group A
 http://edugen.wiley.com/edugen/class/cls47750/
 Wed 16:00-17:00 Museum 20,
First Floor, Museum Bldg.
 Anthony Brew
Eng Group B http://edugen.wiley.com/edugen/class/cls47751/
 Wed 9:00-10:00 Museum 20,
First Floor, Museum Bldg. 		Louise McGuigan
Eng Group C http://edugen.wiley.com/edugen/class/cls47752/
 Wed 15:00-16:00 Drawing Office,
Top Floor, Museum Building
 Anthony Brew
Eng Group D http://edugen.wiley.com/edugen/class/cls47753/
 Fri 11:00-12:00 Museum 20,
First Floor, Museum Bldg. 		Anthony Brew
Eng with Management
 http://edugen.wiley.com/edugen/class/cls47665/
 Fri  9:00-10:00  HAM1
Salmon Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Bldg.		 Louise McGuigan
MSISS Group
http://edugen.wiley.com/edugen/class/cls47754/
 Fri 12:00-13:00 ST120
Lloyd Building
 Louise McGuigan

Textbook:


In order to pass this course you are required to purchase the following textbook. Before purchasing the book, please, make sure it has the following ISBN number: 
ISBN 0470 103035

Textbooks with this number were issued by special order for this course. Keep the registration code that comes with the book's package! It will allow you access the course's Wiley+ web page. WilleyPlus Web page contain various student resources and your homework assignments.

You can find books with this ISBN only at
Hodges Figgis, 56-58 Dawson Street



BookCoverImage Calculus: Late Transcendentals Single Variable, 8th Edition
Howard Anton, Irl Bivens, Stephen Davis
ISBN: 0-470-103035
Hardcover
896 pages


Alternatively:

If you already have another edition you can purchase the registration code without the book following the instructions below.
Note: textbook+code costs under 60 Euro, while the code alone costs the equivalent of  £15+VAT (after special 1E1 discount).

At the following webpage
http://eu.he.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-290108.html#calculus
choose

Anton, Bivens, Davis / Calculus: Late Transcendentals (Combined), Eighth Edition, WileyPLUS Registration Code

On the next page enter Trinity College Dublin as the college name in the box.

The code then appears in your shopping cart at 28.20 Euro and you need to
click Checkout Now. Before the discount can be applied you need to set up
an account and should complete the next page. Once done you will be at the
checkout again and you should then enter the discount code FCH1 in the
code box so that the price reduces to £15+VAT.

The access code will be e-mailed to you.

Class Meetings

Lectures: Monday
 11:00-12:00 MacNeill Theatre, Hamilton Building (Theatre 3) McN3 (HAM 3)

Tuesday
 11:00-12:00 MacNeill Theatre, Hamilton Building (Theatre 3) McN3  (HAM 3)

Tuesday
 13:00-14:00
 MacNeill Theatre, Hamilton Building (Theatre 3) McN3  (HAM 3)
Tutorials:

One tutorial each week.  For place and time see your group schedule above.

Course Description


Exams

One 90 minute end of Hilary Term examination.

Three hour End of year Final examination.

Grading

  • Homework
 10%
  • One Miderm Exam (end of Hilary Term)
 20%
  • Final Exam
 70%

Homework

Assignments will be available on WilleyPlus web page every Tuesday and should be completed by each student within a week.

Your Comments

You are welcome to submit any comments you have about this class here.