August and September

Class notes and assignments for August and September

Make sure you are eligible for this course! You should have either made a grade of A41 on the math placement test, or made a grade of C or better in Math 122 or 115, or made a sufficient score on a precalculus AP or CLEP test, or received special permission from the Department of Mathematics.

Week of August 22 - 26

The problems listed below for graphing calculators are also appropriate for practice with Maple and the FunctionPlotter Maplet, whether or not you have a graphing calculator.

Practice problems: look at these before Thursday, Aug. 25 recitation section:
Section 1.1: problems 1, 3, 9, 19, and 27 abc; if you have a graphing calculator, try 27d as well.
Section 1.2: [for those with graphing calculators]: problems 1, 5, and 7.
Section 1.3: odd-numbered problems 31 through 39, and 45, 47.
Section 1.6: problems 9, 11, 13, 17, 23, 27, 31.

If you haven't already done so, try working odd-numbered problems 9 through 15 in Section 1.2, using either a graphing calculator or Maple or the FunctionPlotter Maplet. I recommend using Maple since this will give you practice that will come in handy during the Tuesday computer labs.

Hand in Friday, Aug. 26:

Page 37: even numbered problems 36 through 46
Page 74: problems 10, 12, 22, 28, 30.

Try working these problems before Monday's class, Aug. 29:
Section 1.8: 1, 3, 5.

Look over Appendix A and Section 2.1 before Monday's class. Appendix A is a review of trigonometry, and Section 2.1 introduces the fundamental calculus concept, the concept of a limit. You cannot understand calculus without a good idea of what limits are all about.

Week of August 29 - Sept. 2

There was a quiz on Thursday, Sept. 1 on problems very much like (some were identical) practice problems in sections 1.3 and 1.6.

Practice problems:
Section 2.1: 3, 7, 9, 11, 17
Section 2.2: Finish number 1 and try 5, 7, 9, 21, and 23.

Regular homework

page 93: numbers 2, 4, 10 (6 points apiece)
page 111: numbers 4 and 8 (4 points apiece)
page 121: numbers 6, 8 and 10 (4 points apiece)

Week of Sept. 6 - Sept. 9

There will be a quiz Thursday on Section 1.8 and/or 2.2.

Practice problems for Thursday:
Section 2.3: odd numbers 5 - 17 and 31
Section 2.4: numbers 1, 3, and 35
Section 2.5: number 5 and odd numbered problems 13 - 23.

Homework to be handed in on Friday, Sept. 9:

Section 2.1: number 12 (6 points)
Section 2.2: numbers 2 parts (a) through (f) (1 point apiece), 24, 32 (3 points apiece)
Section 2.3: numbers 6 parts (a) through (c) (1 point apiece), 10, 12, and 14 (2 points apiece)

Week of Sept. 12 - Sept. 16

Office hours this week:
M 1:30 -- 3:30; Tue 2:30 -- 3:20; W 1:00 -- 3:30; Thu 9:00 - 10:30 and 2:00 - 3:30.

There will be no quiz this Thursday, Sept. 15; recitation sections will be used to review for the first hour test.

Practice problems for Monday, Sept. 12: Section 2.5, number 29 and Section 3.1, numbers 13 and 15.

Practice problems for Wednesday, Sept. 14: Section 3.2, numbers 9, 11, and 13.

Homework to be handed in on Wednesday, Sept. 14:

Section 2.5: numbers 16, 22 (2 points apiece) and 30 (4 points each part)
(6 points apiece) Use a limit formula to find an equation of the tangent line to:
- y = x^2 when x_0 = -3
- y = 2/x when x_0 = 1
- y = 1/x^2 when x_0 = 2

Practice Problems for Thursday, Sept. 15:
Section 3.2, finish numbers 23 and 27
Section 3.3 numbers 3, 7, 11, 17, 35

Homework to be handed in on Monday, Sept. 19:

Section 3.2 number 28 (4 points each part)
Section 3.3:
- even numbers 4 through 12 (2 points apiece)
- 18 (3 points)
- 24 and 36 (4 points apiece)

Week of Sept. 19 - Sept. 23

Office hours this week: MW 1:30 -- 3:30, Tue 9:30 - 10:30 and 2 - 3:30, and Th 9:00 -- 10:30

The first hour test is on Wednesday, Sept. 21, on Sections 1.3, 1.6, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3.

Practice Problems for Thursday, Sept. 22:
Section 3.4, numbers 5, 7, 11, 13, 19b, finish 21 and do 35(a).

Homework to be handed in on Friday, Sept. 23:

Section 3.4: 2, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36(a) [4 points apiece]

Week of Sept. 26 - Sept. 30

Office Hours: M, Tue, W 1:30 -- 3:30, Thu 12 -- 12:25 and 2:00 -- 3:00

There will be a quiz Thursday on Section 3.4.

Practice problems (try them before Thursday's recitation, or sooner):
Section 3.5: numbers 7, 11, and 23.
Section 3.6: numbers 7, 9, 11, odd numbers 21 through 31, and 43. Section 3.7: numbers 5 and 7.

For Wednesday, read pages 173 -- 175.

Homework to be handed in on Friday, Sept. 30:

Section 3.5: numbers 6, 10, 20, [2 points apiece] and 22 [3 points]
Section 3.6: numbers 8, 10, 12, [2 points apiece] 20 [3 points] and 44 [4 points; leave expressions like cos 10 and sin 10 in your answer or else approximate them to within 4 decimal places]