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| MONTH or WEEK | DAY | Topic, Event | Section; Practice Problems | Teams; Assigned Problems |
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| JANUARY | ||||
| Chapter 1: Limits | ||||
| WEEK 1 | 14-18 January | |||
| Mon 14 | Course Introduction Policies, Syllabus, Objectives: [PostScript] [Acrobat] | |||
| Introduction to Limits | §1.1 #1-4,7-26, #29-30,45 | |||
| Tue 15 | Limit Theorems | §1.3 #1-20,25-26, #41-44 | ||
| Thu 17 | Trigonometric Limits | §1.4 #1-16 | ||
| Fri 18 | Quiz 1 Thru §1.3 | |||
| WEEK 2 | 21-25 January | |||
| Mon 21 | Martin Luther King Day Holiday No class meeting | |||
| Tue 22 | Trigonometric Limits, continued | |||
| Thu 24 | Limits at Infinity; Infinite Limits | §1.5 #1-10,21-24,27, #30,43-46,55 | ||
| Fri 25 | Quiz 2 Thru §1.4. Includes deriving lim (t -> 0) (sin t)/t = 1. Continuity | §1.6 #1-10,18-21, #24-30,51-53,63 | Team Assignments Homework Guidelines
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| Chapter 2: The Derivative | ||||
| WEEK 3 | 28 January - 1 February | |||
| Mon 28 | Tangent and Instantaneous Velocity | §2.1 #1-4,9,13, #17,25,27 | ||
| Tue 29 | The Derivative | §2.2 #1-8,17-20, #27,37-40,64 | ||
| Thu 31 | ||||
| FEBRUARY | ||||
| Fri 1 | Differentiation rules Quiz 3 Thru §2.1. | §2.3 #1-20,31-36,49-52 | Team Assignments Homework Guidelines
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| WEEK 4 | 4 - 8 February | |||
| Mon 4 | Differentiation rules, continued | |||
| Tue 5 | Trigonometric derivatives | §2.4 #1-18,21,23,25 | ||
| Thu 7 | The Chain Rule | §2.5 #1-28,33-36, #41-42,63-65 | ||
| Fri 8 | Calculator-Free Quiz 4 thru §2.3 | NEW Team Assignments Homework Guidelines
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| WEEK 5 | 11-15 February | |||
| Mon 11 | Higher-Order Derivatives | §2.6 #1-14,20,21, #23-25,31 | ||
| Tue 12 | Implicit Differentiation | §2.7 #1-8,13-16, #21-26,37-38 | ||
| Thu 14 | Related Rates | §2.8 #1-4,7,8,11, #12,15,16,19,20 | ||
| Fri 15 | Calulator-Free Quiz 5 thru §2.6 | Team Assignments Homework Guidelines
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| WEEK 6 | 18-22 February | |||
| Mon 18 | Differentials and Approximations | §2.9 #1-6,10,14, #16-19,23-24,37-40 | ||
| Tue 19 | ||||
| Thu 21 | Review of §§2.7-9 | Practice Problems §§2.7-9 Team Assignments
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| Chapter 3: Applications of the Derivative | ||||
| Fri 22 | Quiz 6 Thru Chapter 2 Maxima and Minima | §3.1 #1,2,5-14,29-31 | Team Assignments Homework Guidelines
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| WEEK 7 | 25-29 February | |||
| Mon 25 | Monotonicity and Concavity | §3.2 #1-8,11-14, #19-24,29-32 | ||
| Tue 26 | REVIEW of Chapters 1-2 | §1.7 #1-8, #16-22,33-36 §2.10 #1(c),(d),(e), #2(c),(d),(e), 5-8 #15-18, 25-28, 35-38, #41,42,46,47 | ||
| Thu 28 | REVIEW of Chapter 2, continued Midterm Exam 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. 127 Curtiss | |||
| Fri 29 | No class meeting. | No Assigned Problems this week. | ||
| MARCH | ||||
| WEEK 8 | 3 - 7 March | |||
| Mon 3 | Local Extrema | §3.3 #1-6,11-14,21-24,31-32,35-38 | ||
| Tue 4 | Optimization Problems | §3.4 #1,2,10-12,17-20,25-28,41,43 | ||
| Thu 6 | Review of Local Extrema and Optimization | |||
| Fri 7 | Graphing Functions Using Calculus Quiz 7 Thru §3.3 | §3.5 #1-6,13-14,17,23,31-32,34 | NEW Team Assignments Assigned Problems Due
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| WEEK 9 | 10-14 March | |||
| Mon 10 | ||||
| Tue 11 | Mean Value Theorem | §3.6 #22,24,31-34,46-48,51-54 | ||
| Thu 13 | Antiderivatives | §3.8 #1-8,19-32;,37-38 | ||
| Fri 14 | Differential Equations Quiz 8 Thru §3.5 | §3.9 #1-2,5-9,17-26 | Team Assignments Assigned Problems Due
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| SPRING RECESS 17 - 21 MARCH | ||||
| Chapter 4: The Definite Integral | ||||
| WEEK 10 | 24-28 March | |||
| Mon 24 | Area | §4.1 #1-4,9-12,19-22, #29,39-40,43-46,49-56 | ||
| Tue 25 | ||||
| Thu 27 | The Definite Integral | §4.2 #1,3,5,7,11-14,17-20,27-28 | ||
| Fri 28 | Quiz 9 Thru §4.1 | Team Assignments Assigned Problems Due
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| WEEK 11 | 31 March - 4 April | |||
| Mon 31 | Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (1) | §4.3 #1-6,9-22,27-28,33-34 | ||
| APRIL | ||||
| Tue 1 | Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (1), continued | |||
| Thu 3 | Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (II) The Method of Substitution | §4.4 #1-28,35-50,59-61 | ||
| Fri 4 | Quiz 10 Thru §4.3 | NEW Team Assignments Assigned Problems Due
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| WEEK 12 | 7-11 April | |||
| Mon 7 | Mean Value Theorem for Integrals Symmetry | §4.5 #1-10,29-41,48 | ||
| Chapter 6: Transcendental Functions | ||||
| Tue 8 | The Natural Logarithm | §6.1 #1,3-10,15-22,30-32,35 | ||
| Thu 10 | Inverse Functions, Their Derivatives | §6.2 #1-2,7-12,15-18,29,33,43 | ||
| Fri 11 | The Exponential Function Pencil & Paper Quiz 11 Thru Chapter 4 | §6.3 #3-8,11-21,25-29,37-44 | Team Assignments Assigned Problems Due
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| WEEK 13 | 14-18 April | |||
| Mon 14 | The exponential function, continued | |||
| Tue 15 | Exponentials and Logarithms to Any Base | §6.4 #1-5,9-10,13-16,17-26,31,35-36 | ||
| Thu 17 | Exponential Growth and Decay | §6.5 #1-3,8,9,12-15,19-21,26,36 | ||
| Fri 18 | Calculator-Free Quiz 12 Thru §6.3 First-Order Linear Differential Equations | §6.6 1-5,15-17 | Team Assignments Assigned Problems Due
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| WEEK 14 | 21-25 April | |||
| Mon 21 | ||||
| Tue 22 | Inverse Trigonometric Functions | §6.8 #1-5,11-13,25,29,39-50,55-63,73,87,90,91 | ||
| Thu 24 | Inverse Trigonometric Functions | |||
| Fri 25 | Inverse Trigonometric Functions Quiz 13 Thru §6.6 | Team Assignments Assigned Problems Due
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| WEEK 15 | 28 April - 2 May | |||
| Mon 28 | REVIEW Chapter 6 | Ch. 6 Sample Test Problems pp. 380-1 #1-38,40-42. | ||
| Tue 29 | REVIEW Chapter 3 | Ch. 3 Sample Test Problems pp.210-3 #20-36 (even), 40-43, 53-75. | ||
| MAY | ||||
| Thu 1 | REVIEW Chapter 4 | Ch.4 Sample Test Problems pp. 271-3 #1-12,14-16,19,22,26,28 | ||
| Fri 2 | REVIEW. Quiz 14 Thru Chapter 6 | |||
| FINAL EXAMS | 30 April - 4 May | |||
| Thu 8 | FINAL EXAM tests the Objectives for Calculus I: [PostScript] [Acrobat] 4:30 - 6:30 PM, 1210 LeBaron | |||