Math 101: Section 01 (Instructor: Alan Durfee)

Fall 2000 Daily Schedule

# Date Topics Homework Grader
1 9/7 (Th) Section 1 p. 8: odd problems (due 9/12) R
- - - web exercise (Do not fill out the forms on the web page, but instead do your work on a separate sheet of paper.) AD
2 9/12 (Tu) Section 2 p. 15: odd problems (due 9/15) R
- - - worksheet "Estimating the slope of a curve" (due 9/15) AD
3 9/14 (Th) Section 3 p.20: odd problems R
4 9/19 (Tu) Section 4, first part p. 25: 1, 3, 5, 7, 17, 19, 21 (due 9/22) R
- - - worksheet "The derivative in other sciences": 2, 3 (due 9/22) AD
5 9/21 (Th) Section 4, second part p. 25: 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 (due 9/26) R
- - - sheet "Derivatives in other sciences" #4 (do first by solving for p, and then by implicit differentiation. In both cases simplify your answer.) AD
6 9/26 (Tu) - Practice problems for Quiz (do not hand in; we will discuss these Thurs) p. 8: 16, p. 14: 8, p. 20: 2, 8, 10, p. 25: 2, 6, 10. -
- - orthogonal curves; cartography map problems AD
7 9/28 (Th) angle measure, handout on Eratosthenes two problems from handout (due 10/3) AD
- 9/29 (Fri) Quiz on Sections 1--4 - -
8 10/3 (Tu) Section 5 Review problems for test: odd problems p. 31 (do not hand in) -
9 10/5 (Th) Review for test. Also Section 6, and handout of all the facts you would ever want to know about trig functions p. 39: 1--15 odd (due 10/13) M
- 10/6 (Fri) Test #1 - -
10 10/12 (Th) "Periodic Functions" handout - -
- - Section 7 p. 54: 1, 2, 5 (and sketch the function, too. Due 10/17) R
11 10/17 (Tu) - p. 54: 25, 27, 35, 39 (Due 10/20) M
12 10/19 Section 8 p. 75: 3 (due 10/24) R
13 10/24 Section 9 p. 83: 23--31 odd (due 10/27) M
- - - Problems A, B below (due 10/27) M
14 10/26 - p. 82: 43--51 odd, 54, 56 (due 10/31) R
- - - Worksheet "The graph of the exponential function" (due 10/30) AD
15 10/31 Section 10 p. 89: 1,2 (due 11/7) R
- - - Handout on world population growth -
16 11/2 Review for quiz - -
- 11/3 (Fri) Quiz on Sections 6,7,8,9. - -
17 11/6 (Tu) - review problem for test: p. 76: 11 (do not hand in) -
- - Section 11 p. 100: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 (due 11/14) R
18 11/9 (Th) - - -
- 11/10 (Fri) Test #2 - -
19 11/14 (Tu) Section 10 (radioactive decay) Problems 1, 2 on the carbon-14 web page (due 11/17), Problem 3 (due 11/21). AD
20 11/16 (Th) Assign projects (project list) - -
21 11/21 (Tu) - - -
22 11/28 (Tu) Section 12 p. 107: 1--13 odd, 14, 16 (due 12/1) M
23 11/30 (Th) Section 16 p. 136: 1--15 odd (due 12/5) R
24 12/5 (Tu) - p.108: 19, 21 (due 12/12) M
25 12/7 (Th) Presentation of Projects I - -
26 12/12 (Tu) Presentation of Projects II - -
- TBA Review Session - -


Problem A. Find two numbers whose difference is 100 and whose product is a minimum.


Problem B. An open-top box is to be made by cutting small congruent squares from the corners of a 12x12 inch sheet of tin and bending up the sides. How large should the square cut from the corners be to make the box hold as much as possible?

Grader "R" is Ryoko Fukai, grader "M" is Mei Fong Chan, and grader "AD" is Alan Durfee

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