Read and refer to this section regularly. Deadlines for assignments, assessments, discussions, quizzes & tests, and all other graded and non-graded activities are posted in the course schedule. Submitting work late will be permitted only under extenuating circumstances and only with prior notification and documentation (original funeral notice). NOTE: There are activities due during the week, NOT just before class.

Module 1 Chapter 2 (sections 2.1-2.5) In Class Activities OUT of Class Activities
Chapter 2 Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand what calculus is and how it compares with pre-calculus
  • Understand that the tangent line problem is basic to calculus.
  • Understand that the area problem is also basic to calculus
  • Estimate a limit using a numerical or graphical approach.
  • Learn different ways that a limit can fail to exist.
  • Study and use formal definition of limit.
  • Evaluate a limit using properties of limits.
  • Develop and use a strategy for finding limits,
  • Evaluate a limit using dividing out and rationalizing techniques.
  • Evaluate a limit using the squeeze theorem
  • Determine continuity at a point and continuity on an open interval.
  • Determine one-sided limits and continuity on a closed interval.
  • Use properties of continuity.
  • Understand and use the intermediate value theorem.
  • Determine infinite limits from the left and from the right
  • Find and sketch the vertical asymptotes of the graph of a function.
  • Textbook: Calculus Early Transcendental Functions, pages 62-103
  • Video lectures for Module 1 (in BConline)
  • Power Points lectures for  Module.1 (in BConline)
  • Additional learning tools (video, animation, textbook pages, etc) are available in Web Assign, under “eBook” for each topic/exercise in Module 1
Read

  • Chapter 2
  • PowerPoint

Assessments

  • Quizzes #1-5

Test # 1 

All quizzes+homework related to test#1 will be due the same date as the test.

Module 2 Chapter 3 (sections 3.1-3.7) In Class Activities OUT of Class Activities
Chapter3 Learning Outcomes:

  • Find the slope of the tangent line to a curve at a point.
  • Use the limit definition to find the derivative of a function.
  • Understand the relationship between differentiability and continuity.
  • Find the derivative of a function using the constant rule
  • Find the derivative of a function using the power rule
  • Find the derivative of a function using the constant multiple rules.
  • Find the derivative of a function using the sum and difference rules
  • Find the derivative of the sine, cosine, and exponential functions.
  • Use the derivatives to find rates of change.
  • Find the derivative of a function using the product rule.
  • Find the derivative of a function using the quotient rule
  • Find the derivative of a trigonometric function
  • Find a higher-order derivative of a function.
  • Find the derivative of a composite function using the chain rule.
  • Find the derivative of a function using the general power rule.
  • Simplify the derivative of a transcendental function using the chain rule.
  • Find the derivative of a function involving the natural logarithmic function.
  • Define and differentiate exponential functions that have bases other than e.
  • Distinguish between functions written in implicit form and explicit form.
  • Use implicit differentiation to find the derivative of a function.
  • Find derivatives of functions using logarithmic differentiation.
  • Find the derivative of an inverse function.
  • Differentiate an inverse trigonometric function.
  • Review the basic differentiation rules for elementary functions.
  • Find a related rate.
  • Use related rates to solve real-life problems.
In class:

  • Textbook: Calculus Early Transcendental Functions, pages 116-189
  • Video lectures for Module 2 (in BConline)
  • Power Points lectures for  Module.2 (in BConline)
  • Additional learning tools (video, animation, textbook pages, etc) are available in Web Assign, under “eBook” for each topic/exercise in Module 2
Read

  • Chapter 3
  • PowerPoint

Assessments

  • Quizzes #6-12

Test # 2

All quizzes+homework related to test#2 will be due the same date as the test.

Module 3 Chapter 4 (sections 4.1-4.8) In Class Activities OUT of Class Activities
Chapter 4 Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the definition of extrema of a function on an interval.
  • Understand the definition of relative extrema of a function on an open interval.
  • Find extrema on a closed interval.
  • Understand and use the mean value theorem.
  • Determine intervals on which a function is increasing or decreasing.
  • Apply the first derivative test to find relative extrema of a function.
  • Determine intervals on which a function is concave upward or concave downward.
  • Find any points of inflection of the graph of a function.
  • Apply the second derivative test to find relative extrema of a function.
  • Determine (finite) limits at infinity.
  • Determine the horizontal asymptotes, if any, of the graph of a function.
  • Determine infinite limits at infinity.
  • Analyze and sketch the graph of a function.
  • Solve applied minimum and maximum problems.
  • Understand the concept of a tangent line approximation
  •  Compare the value of differential,dy , with actual change in y, Delta y
  • Estimate a propagated error using a differential.
  • Find the differential of a function using differentiation formulas.
In class:

  • Textbook: Calculus Early Transcendental Functions, pages 204-280
  • Video lectures for Module 3 (in BConline)
  • Power Points lectures for  Module.3 (in BConline)
  • Additional learning tools (video, animation, textbook pages, etc) are available in Web Assign, under “eBook” for each topic/exercise in Module 3
Read

  • Chapter 4
  • PowerPoint

Assessments

  • Quizzes #13-20

Test # 3

All quizzes+homework related to test#3 will be due the same date as the test.

Module 4 Chapter 5 (sections 5.1-5.7) In Class Activities OUT of Class Activities
Chapter 5 Learning Outcomes:

  • Write the general solution of a differential equation.
  • Use indefinite integral notation for antiderivative.
  • Use basic integration rules to find antiderivatives.
  • Find a particular solution of a differential  equation.
  • Using sigma notation to write and evaluation a sum.
  • Understand the concept of area.
  • Approximate the area of a plane region.
  • Find the area of a plane region using limits.
  • Understand the definition of Riemann sum.
  • Evaluate a definite integral using limits.
  • Evaluate a definite integral using properties of definite integrals.
  • Evaluate a definite integral using the fundamental theorem of calculus.
  • Understand and use the mean value theorem for integrals.
  • Find the average value of a function over a closed interval.
  • Understand and use the second fundamental theorem of calculus.
  • Understand and use the net change theorem.
  • Use pattern recognition to find an indefinite integral.
  • Use a change of variables to find and infinite integral.
  • Use the general power rule for integration to find and indefinite integral.
  • Evaluate a definite integral involving an even or odd function.
  • Approximate a definite integral using the trapezoidal rule.
  • Approximate a definite integral using simpson’s rule.
  • Use the log rule  for integration to integrate a rational function.
  • Integrate trigonometric functions.
  • Integrate functions whose antiderivative involve inverse trigonometric functions.
  • Use the method of completing the square to integrate a function.
  • Use the method of completing the square to integrate a function.
  • Review basic integration rules involving elementary functions.
In class:

  • Textbook: Calculus Early Transcendental Functions, pages 281-357
  • Video lectures for Module 4 (in BConline)
  • Power Points lectures for  Module4 (in BConline)
  • Additional learning tools (video, animation, textbook pages, etc) are available in Web Assign, under “eBook” for each topic/exercise in Module 4
Read

  • Chapter 5
  • PowerPoint

Assessments

  • Quizzes #20-28

Test # 4  

All quizzes+homework related to test#4 will be due the same date as the test.

FINAL EXAM  12/05 Modules 1 – 4 In class Due Date: 12/5