The course is the entrance Mathematics course for all students in the School of Engineering and Science, and serves as a prerequistes for later ESM and more advanced Mathematics and Computational Science courses. It can be complemented by the lab units 110111 NatSciLab Math Symbolic Software (Mathematica, Latex) or 110112 NatSciLab Math Numerical Software (Matlab, Octave).
The course covers the standard topics of single variable calculus (functions, sequences and series, limits and continuity, derivatives and differential calculus, antiderivatives and Riemann integral) and its applications but also introduces to complex numbers, simple first-order differential equations, and Taylor series. A more detailed weekly plan with references to chapters in the textbook [EP] can be found here.
| Instructor of Record: | Peter Oswald |
| Email: | p.oswald@jacobs-university.de, |
| Phone: | 200-3179 |
| Office hours: | Mondays 1:30-3pm (or by appointment) in Research I, 113 |
| TA: | Brendan Creutz (Research 1, Room 129a) |
| Email: | TBA |
| Tutorial: Wednesday ??? | TBA |
| Lectures : | Mo 11:15-12:30 and Th 8:15-9:30 in the Lecture Hall of Research 2 |
Quizzes are administered during class time on Thursdays approximately every 2 weeks. They should "force" you to closely follow the material discussed in class, and alert you to deficiencies in the learning process early on. Quizzes are composed of one or two short questions and problems that relate to the last few classes, the allocated time to solve them is about 10 minutes. A sample quiz from last year (relating to the two first lectures) can be found here.
A Midterm Exam (Week 8) and a Final Exam will be given, jointly for both sections of the ESM1A course. Details about the exams will be given in the review sessions preceding the exams.
Calculators are not allowed at exams and quizzes (major reason: fairness). A certain amount of calculating and graphing by hand is useful, and is supported by this policy.
Only valid and timely excuses (as regulated by Jacobs University policies) will be accepted if you miss homework deadlines, quizzes, or exams.
| Homework: | 20% |
| Quizzes: | 10% |
| Midterm Exam (week 8): | 30% |
| Final Exam (examination period): | 40% |
| Cutoff score: | 95% | 90% | 85% | 80% | 75% | 70% | 65% | 60% | 55% | 50% | 45% | 40% |
| IUB Points: | 1.0 | 1.33 | 1.67 | 2.0 | 2.33 | 2.67 | 3.0 | 3.33 | 3.67 | 4.0 | 4.33 | 4.67 |