MAT129: Calculus I
Spring, 2018
Attitude: your best friend, or worst enemy
Course Materials:
Syllabus
Assignments
IMath
Calculus lab (MEP 457)
, schedule
Monday-Thursday: 9:00am-3:00pm
Friday: 9:00am-12:00pm
Daily Agendas/Summaries
Chapter 1:
Day 1: Welcome!
Day 2: Review
Day 3: Section 1.5
Day 4: Section 1.6
Day 5: Limits and Continuity
Day 6: Continuity
Day 7: Derivatives
Chapter 2:
Day 7: Derivatives
Day 8: Derivative Function
Day 9: Derivative Function (encore)
Day 10: Differentiation Rules
(2.3)
Day 11: Differentiation Rules (encore)
Day 12: Differentiation Rules (encore)
Day 13: Derivative of sines and cosines
Day 14: Exam 1
Day 15: Trig rules
Day 16: The Chain Rule
Day 17: Implicit Differentiation
Day 18: Related Rates
Day 19: Hell's Library...!
Day 20: Hell and linearization
Chapter 3:
Day 21: Maxes and Mins
Day 22: 1st and 2nd Derivative Tests
Day 23: Shape of a function
Day 24: Asymptotes
Day 25: Summary of Curve Sketching
Day 26: More Curve Sketching
Day 27: Optimization
Day 28: More Optimization
Day 29: Exam 2
Day 30: More Optimization
Day 31: Anti-derivatives
Chapter 4:
Day 32: Integration and the Odometer
Day 33: Integration rules
Day 34: Integrals as definite areas
Day 35: Fundamental theorem
Day 36: Fundamental theorem, encore
Day 37: Indefinite Integral
Day 38: Substitution
Day 39: More Substitution
Chapter 5:
Day 40: Area between curves
Day 41: Volumes, too
Day 42: Volumes, again
Day 43: Some interesting integrals
Day 44: The limit!
Links:
Learning Objectives
I encourage you to
download a free copy of Mathematica
.
Wolfram Alpha
Graphs for Calculus Class
On-line calculus course
Earth Math from Kennesaw State
Keeling references:
Modeling the Keeling Data with Excel
Recent Keeling Data
in Excel
When it comes time for course evaluations, please visit
this site
.
Notes:
Final exam: May 1st. Section 001: 10:10am-12:10pm; Section 002: 1:00-3:00pm
Feel free to
email me
with your questions.
Gil Strang's "Highlights of Calculus"
Taking tests in my classes
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