Day 02 in Mat121

Today:

• Announcements:
  • Roll
  • Additional course details:
    • Schedule and Assignments (tentative)
    • Questions?

• Homework/directed reading handout: Section 2.1 (html) (pdf)

• Chapter 1:
  • Word for the day (for the week, for the month, for the course!): function
    • Functions occur everywhere...

    • Our most important function: linear
      • Is the Earth flat? What makes it seem so?
      • linear function worksheet

  • Questions regarding Homework/directed reading handout: Chapter 1 (html) (pdf)

  • Some basic plotting on the TI-92
    • Defining/storing functions
    • Using lists to advantage in plots

  • Roots -- using solve on the TI

  • A scaling and transformation exercise -- modelling "misplaced" sin information

  • A composition exercise