Day 01 in Mat122

Today:

• Announcements:
  • Introductions (4x6 cards)
    1. Name
    2. Where are you from?
    3. Year (Freshman, etc.)
    4. Major
    5. Something special about yourself.

  • Roll

  • Some course details:
    • The course website may be useful: http://www.nku.edu/~longa/classes/mat122
    • Syllabus (logistics, etc.)
    • Departmental Syllabus
    • Schedule and Assignments (tentative)
    • You should do the reading in advance of our discussion of that section in class.
    • Calculators (TI 89, 92) -- will you need one?
    • Homework/directed reading handout: Section 4.7 (html) (pdf)
    • For those in my mat121 class, the finals will be available tomorrow (after I've scanned the Key and done some more "global" assessment). Those of you who weren't in my mat121, you'll probably want to have a look at that site, if only to get an idea of what kinds of questions I ask on exams.

  • Questions?

• Review and extension:
  • Derivatives
    • Definition from limits
    • rates of change
    • extrema and optimization
    • linearization

  • Newton's method, section 4.7
    • #2, p. 235