MATH 141C: Fall 2007

Instructor: Professor Lauren Rose

Office: Albee 305, x7362

Class Meetings: M/W 1:30-2:50pm, Hegeman 106

Office Hours: M 3-4, T 1:30-2:30, W 3-4 and by appointment

Email: rose@bard.edu

Text: Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, 3rd edition,  by James Stewart

Exams

There will be three exams during the semester.  Tentative dates are listed below.

Assignments

Homework will be assigned daily and there will be weekly quizzes.

Mathematica

Mathematica is a computer program that you can use to graph functions and even do calculus. This program is available on computers in the New Henderson Lab, Old Henderson 101A, Albee 100, and the Campus Center Computer Lab. To download an introduction, right click intro.nb then open it up as a Mathematica file on one of the computers on campus.

 

MATH HELP ROOM

Sunday - Wednesday, 8:00 - 10:00 pm, Albee 106

For more information, or a free tutor, email Jan Rizzuti, rizzuti@bard.edu

Back home

The grid below is a list of assignments.  The items in white are very tentative, and will be filled in as the semester progresses.

Date

Topic

Assignment

Date

Assignment

 

Functions

 

9/5

1.1:  1 - 57 every other odd ( 1, 5, 9, etc.)

1.2:  3, 7, 11, 15ab, 19

9/10

Functions, Trigonometry, Mathematica, Exponential functions

1.3:  3, 23, 35, 39, 43, 47,51, 53

Appendix C: 1, 3, 11, 13, 17

9/12

1.4:  1, 5, 9, 13, 19, 21

1.5:  19, 23, 25

9/17

Inverse functions and logs, limits

1.6: 5, 9, 13, 21, 23, 27, 35, 39, 49, 51, 57

9/19

2.1:  1, 5
2.2:  5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17
2.3: 7, 11, 31 

9/24

Continuity, Tangents, Derivatives

2.3: 9, 15, 19, 21
2.4: 3, 13, 23, 25, 29, 35, 39
2.6: 3

Quiz 1: 2.1 #4, 2.2 #18

9/26

2.6: 7, 11,15,
2.7: 3, 7, 11, 27, 29
2.8: 23, 25

10/1

Derivatives

2.7: 5
2.8: 1, 5, 9, 13, 31, 37

Quiz 2: 2.6 #8, 2.7 #4, 2.8 #22

10/3

2.9: 5, 9, 11, 13, 17
Review Problems, pp176-8: 1,5,9,11,21,23,25,27,28,29,31,33,35,37,38,41,43

10/8

Review,

Derivative formulas

Fall break, No classes

10/10

Review of Chapter 2

3.1: 5, 9, 11, 17, 21, 27, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45

3.2: 3, 7, 11, 19, 27, 35

 

10/15

Derivative formulas, trig functions

Exam 1: handed out in class, due Tuesday at 5pm.

 

10/17

3.4: 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 23, 27, 29, 35

Product Rule Handout

Quotient Rule Handout

http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/

10/22

Chain Rule, Implicit Diff.

3.5: 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 31, 35, 43, 53, 57

Handouts with Trig

10/24

3.6: 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 51

Chain Rule Handout

 

Quiz 3: 3.2 #20, 32, 3.4 #24

10/29

Logarithmic functions, curve sketching

3.7: 3, 7, 11, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 33, 39

 

10/31

Appendix C: 41, 43, 45
3.6: 29, 31, 35
4.3: 7,11,17, 23

Quiz 4:

·         3.5 #4, 20

·         3.6: #16, 18

·         Extra Credit: 3.5 #32

11/5

Max/min, graphing

4.2: 7, 11, 27, 31, 37, 41, 45

4.3: 5, 9, 13, 21

11/7

4.3: 25
Review of Chapter 3: p.255-256:1,5,9,13,17,21,25, 29,33,35,39,43ab,47,49,51,55,59, 63

Graphing Handout from class

(Quiz 5)

11/12

Optimization problems

4.6: 3, 5, 7, 8, 9

11/14

4.6:12, 19, 21
Review of Chapter 4: pp. 336 -337: 1,3,5,9,13,17,23,37,45 45

11/19

Antiderivatives, Exam 2

Exam 2, Part I: Ch 3, in class

4.9:  3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 39, 41

11/21

No class: Thanksgiving break

 

11/26

Areas and integrals

Chapter 4 Review, start Chapter 5

11/28

 Exam 2, Part II: Ch 4, due on Friday

5.1: 3, 5, 11,13
5.2: 3, 5, 7, 31, 37

 

12/3

Evaluating integrals, substitution

5.2: 35, 41, 43
5.3: 3, 7, 11  15, 19, 23, 27, 37, 41

12/5

substitution review sheet
5.3:  47, 50, 55, 57, 61
5.5:  7, 11, 15, 19, 21, 27, 31

(Quiz 6)

12/10

Fundamental Thm of Calculus

5.4: 3, 5, 9, 17, 19
5.5: 39 - 54 odd, 57, 61

12/12

 No class: Registration Day

(Quiz 7?)

12/17

Review, Exam 3

Ch 5 Review p.434-6: Do as many as you can: 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 33, 39, 41, 63, 65

12/19

Exam 3, in class (or overnight – TBA)