Math 101 Fall 2006

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# Date Topics Homework
1 F 9/8 Introduction -
2 M 9/11 Basic rules for differentiation (3.1) Practice problems: 3.1, p. 191: #1,3,5,6,7, 9,10,11
3 W 9/13 Review of exponents, exponential functions (1.5). -
- - Lab 1: Zooming into a graph to estimate its slope at a point -
4 F 9/15 Derivative of e^x (3.1). Find equation of tangent line (p. 159-160) Practice problems: p. 191: 12, 13, 17, 22.
- - - HW 1: p. 191 (3.1): 2bc, 23, 32, 33 (use the interval -20 < x < 20), 36, 39, 41, 45 (due 9/20)
5 M 9/18 Product rule (3.2) Challenge problem #1 (optional): p. 191: 49 (hand in by 9/25)
6 W 9/20 Quiz #1. Product and quotient rules (3.2) Practice problems: p. 197: 3, 5, 7, 9 (in two ways), 11
- - Demonstration of why e is a special number -
7 F 9/22 Tangent and secant lines (pp. 4, 87-89, 149-152) -
8 M 9/25 Three ways of defining the derivative (see above pages) Practice problems: p. 91: 4ab, 7ab
9 W 9/27 Quiz #2. -
- - The derivative as rate of change in various situations (3.3). Lab 2: UBC slope and velocity applet
- - - HW 2: p. 197: 13, 14, 16, 27, 31, 35. P. 208: 13, 28a (due 10/4)
10 F 9/29 Review of trigonometry (Appendix D); Derivatives of trigonometric functions (for now we'll just do sine and cosine) (3.4) Practice problems: p. 216: 1, 2, 5, 13. Also p. A32: 1, 4, 7, 10, 35, 36.
11 M 10/2 Chain rule (3.5) HW 3: p. 216 (3.4): 9, 16, 23, 25, 31 (since the answer to the last question is in the back of the book, your job is to explain how you get it.)
- - - Practice problems (3.5) p. 224: 5, 7, 9, 11.
12 W 10/4 Chain rule (con't) HW 4: p. 224 (3.5): 13, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 48, 50, 53, 55 (due 10/17).
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14 F 10/6 [no class] -
15 W 10/11 Implicit differentiation (3.6) Practice problems: p. 233: 1a,3a
16 F 10/13 Implicit differentiation (con't) Practice problems: p. 233: 1bc, 2bc
- - - HW 5 (3.6): p. 233: 7, 9, 25, 27, 38, 55 (due 10/23)
17 M 10/16 Higher derivatives (3.7) -
- - - MHC velocity applet
18 W 10/18 Orthogonal families (p. 231-2) -
- - Recognizing f, f', f'' from shape of graphs (p. 240) -
19 F 10/20 Logarithms (only the natural logarithm) (3.8). Practice problems p. 249: 2, 3, 4. HW 6: p. 235: 59; p. 249 (3.8): 7, 9, 10, 16, 21, 31 (due 10/27)
- - - Test 1
20 M 10/23 Related rates (3.10) Practice problem: A stone is dropped into a pond. The radius of the resulting wave is increasing at 0.5 m/sec. (a) How fast is the area increasing when the radius is 2m? (b) How fast is the circumference increasing when the radius is 2m?
21 W 10/25 Maximum and minimum values (4.1). Practice problems: p. 287: 31, 33
22 F 10/27 Second derivative test (4.3) For 10/30: Write a careful presentation of the solution to problem (b) above.
- - - HW 7: p. 240 (3.7): 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 23, 25. p. 260 (3.10): 8. Due 11/1
- - - Challenge problem 2: p. 242: 66 (Do as much of parts a, b and c as you can.) Due 11/3
23 M 10/30 Maxima and minima (4.1) HW 8: p. 285 (4.1): 35, 47, 49, 52, 53, 60 (due 11/3)
24 W 11/1 How derivatives affect the shape of a graph (4.3) HW 9: p. 304 (4.3): 2, 6, 8, 9, 11 (due 11/6)
- - - Quiz 4 on 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
25 F 11/3 Curve sketching (4.5, 4.6) -
26 M 11/6 Curve sketching Practice problem p. 336 #3
27 W 11/8 Asymptotes (p. 317-318) Practice problem: p. 337: #7.
- - - Quiz 5 on 4.1, 4.3
28 F 11/10 First and second derivative tests (encore) HW 10 p. 360 (3.10): 7, 9; p. 336 (4.7): 11 (due 11/20)
29 M 11/13 Optimization (4.7) -
30 W 11/15 - -
- - - Test II handed out
31 F 11/17 The derivative of the tangent function is the secant squared (p. 214) HW 11 p. 224 (3.4): 2, 12, 32 (due 11/29)
- - - Test II due
32 M 11/20 - -
33 M 11/27 Antiderivatives (4.10) -
34 W 11/29 Areas by rectangles (5.1) Worksheet on numerical integration (due 12/1)
- - Practice problem: p. 378: 1 HW 12: p. 358 (4.10): 4, 6, 8, 11, 37, 43, 46; p. 378 (5.1): 4, 6 (due 12/4)
35 F 12/1 [go over test] -
36 M 12/4 Differentials (p. 265-267); Areas and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (5.3) Practice problems: p. 268: 15; p. 402: 19, 21
- - - HW 14: p. 268: 16, 17, 18; p. 402: 20, 22, 23, 25, 28 (due 12/8)
- - - HW 13: Find a definition of "tangent" in a dictionary. Is it correct? Other comments? (due 12/6)
37 W 12/6 Practice exam handed out -
38 F 12/8 The definite integral counts area under the x-axis with a negative sign (p. 382) -
39 M 12/11 Handout from "Calculus made easy". Look at the discussion of limits and also of infintesimals (differentials). -
40 W 12/13 - All homework is due at 5pm today