Make sure you are registered into this course. If you are enrolled at Purdue University North Central (PNC), you can use SOLAR to do this.
Logon to your Vista account between Monday, August 23 and Friday, August 27.
Buy A TI-83 Calculator. Buy either the TI-83 (or TI-83 plus, or TI-83 silver edition) calculator.
Buy the texts: Calculus and its Applications (8th edition) and Supplementary Chapters, Calculus and its Applications. The required texts can be bought from the PNC bookstore.
Check out both the MA 223 syllabus and the general class syllabus
Check out frequently asked questions asked by students.
Check out previous course material for previous quizzes, scores, student evaluations and other course material.
If you are anxious to start before the semester begins, before August 23rd, download "attendance1", "attendance2", ..., "attendance14" given below and start answering the questions. The homework questions, "hmk1", ..., "hmk7" are also given below for you start working on, if you wish. You cannot send me--I will not accept--your answers, though, unless you submit them through WebCT Vista. All answers must be submitted through Vista; WebCT allows me to not only keep track of the material you submit but also allows me to grade your submissions.
Chapter 1. Functions, Graphs and Models:
1.1 Graphs and Equations,
1.2 Functions and Models,
1.3 Finding Domain and Range,
1.4 Slope and Linear Functions
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Answer the questions from hmk1 selected at random for you by the Vista on or before 4 am (West Lafayette, Indiana, time) Friday, September 3. Use the WebCT quiz/homework link to submit your homework assignment; do not use the WebCT email to send me your homework assignment! Submit as many times as you want before the deadline, and receive the highest score of all the submissions.
TI83-lab1 is a document which gives a list of all the TI-83 instructions used this week. It is for your information; it is not handed in.
Check how you did on your homework assignment by looking your score up at scores after 9 pm (West Lafayette, Indiana, time) Friday September 3. Use your ID number to locate your score under the column H1.
Chapter 1. Functions, Graphs and Models:
1.5 Other Types of Functions,
1.6 Mathematical Modeling and Curve Fitting.
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The Vista quiz to be done on or before 4 am Friday, September 10. One 20 minute timed submission is allowed; each student does the quiz by themselves with no help from others.
Check out practice quiz1 questions to help you prepare for this quiz; these questions are not handed in.
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Check how you did on your quiz by looking your score up at scores after 9 pm (West Lafayette, Indiana, time) Friday, September 10. Use your ID number to locate your total score, which is given in the third-to-last column under TT, and your current grade, which is given under the next-to-last column under G.
Labor Day Holiday, Sept 6
Chapter 2. Differentiation
2.1 Limits and Continuity: Numerically and Graphically
2.2 Limits: Algebraically
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hmk2 Submit Vista homework 2 before 4 am Friday, September 17
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Chapter 2. Differentiation
2.3 Average Rates of Change
2.4 Differentiation Using Limits of Difference Quotients
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qz-prac2 Submit WebCT quiz 2 before 4 am Friday, September 24
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Chapter 2. Differentiation
2.5 Differentiation Techniques: The Power and Sum-Difference Rules
2.6 Instantaneous Rates of Change; Business Applications
2.7 Differentiation Techniques: The Product and Quotient Rules
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hmk3 Submit WebCT homework 3 before 4 am Friday, October 1
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Chapter 2. Differentiation
2.8 The Chain Rule
2.9 Higher-Order Derivatives
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qz-prac3 supervised quiz 3 Friday, October 8th
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Chapter 3. Applications of Differentiation
3.1 Using First Derivatives to Find Maximum and Minimum Values and Sketch Graphs
3.2 Using Second Derivatives to Find Maximum and Minimum Values and Sketch Graphs
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hmk4 Submit WebCT homework 4 before 4 am Friday, October 15
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Mid-semester Break, October 11,12
Chapter 3. Applications of Differentiation
3.3 Graph Sketching: Asymptotes and Rational Functions
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qz-prac4 Submit quiz 4 before 4 am Friday, October 22
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Chapter 3. Applications of Differentiation
3.4 Using Derivatives to Find Absolute Maximum and Minimum Values
3.5 Maximum-Minimum Problems: Business and Economics Applications
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hmk5 Submit homework 5 before 4 am Friday, October 29
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Chapter 3. Applications of Differentiation
3.6 Differentials
3.7 Implicit Differentiation and Related Rates
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qz-prac5 Submit quiz 5 before 4 am Friday, November 5
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Chapter C. Trigonometric Functions
C.1 Introduction to Trigonometry
C.2 Derivatives of the Trigonometric Functions
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hmk6 Submit homework 6 using WebCT before 4 am Friday, November 12.
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Chapter 4. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
4.1 Exponential Functions
4.2 Logarithmic Functions
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qz-prac6 quiz 6 supervised Friday, November 19th
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Last day to drop the course, November 19
Chapter 4. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
4.3 Applications: The Uninhibited Growth Model
4.4 Applications: Decay
Chapter B. Differential Equations:
B.1 Further Background
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hmk7 Submit homework 7 before 4 am Friday, November 26
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Chapter 4. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
4.5 The Derivatives of a^x and log_a x
4.6 An Economics Application: Elasticity of Demand
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qz-prac7 Submit WebCT quiz 7 before 4 am Friday, December 3.
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WEEK 15. November 29; December 1,3
Review
Check out the previous final exams to help you prepare for this final exam.
Review
Final Exam
Monday, December 13, 10:15-12:15noon, T219 (notice, this final is NOT held in S218!)