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Preparation
Are you really ready? Read this carefully before doing anything else!
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. If you are not enrolled at PNC, you can use the Indiana College Network. Not sure if you are registered? Contact your distance learning coordinator (DLC). Not sure who your DLC is? Contact the PNC Learning Center, Barb Phillips.
It is of utmost importance that you contact the instructor; that's me, Dr. Jonathan Kuhn, between Monday, August 23 and Friday, August 27. Let me know you have started the preparations listed here. If you fail to contact me during this time period, I will not permit you to take this internet course. Make sure I have replied to any email you send me or that you immediately reply to any email I send you. If you have not heard from me within 24 hours of sending your email, telephone me.
If you are a local (to PNC) internet student, contact the PNC Learning Center, Barb Phillips, to arrange supervised tests with, between Monday, August 23 and Friday, August 27. Ask her what her policies are with regard to taking supervised tests at the Learning Center on the PNC campus. If you are not enrolled at PNC, it is up to you to make sure that your DLC is in communication with the PNC DLC, so that the two DLCs can coordinate when and where your supervised tests will occur.
Logon to your Vista account between Monday, August 23 and Friday, August 27. If you fail to logon to your WebCT account by 4 am (yes, 4am!) (West Lafayette, Indiana time), Friday, August 27th, I will not permit you to take this internet course.
Buy A TI-83 Calculator. Buy either the TI-83 (or TI-83 plus, or TI-83 silver edition) calculator.
Buy the text from the PNC bookstore: Calculus and Its Applications (8th Edition). The solution manual is also useful.
Check out both the MA 223 syllabus and the general internet syllabus
Check out frequently asked questions asked by online students.
Check previous course material for previous quizzes, scores, student evaluations and other course material.
If you are anxious to start before the semester begins, download "attendance1.pdf", "attendance2.pdf", ..., "attendance14.pdf" given below and start answering the questions. The homework questions, "hmk1.pdf", ..., "hmk7.pdf" 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. All answers must be submitted through WebCT; 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
Answer all attendance1 questions and submit them to me (Jonathan Kuhn) using Vista email (and only WebCT email!) on or before 4 am (yes, 4am!) (West Lafayette, Indiana, time) Wednesday, September 1. Title your email as "attendance 1"; type short answers, for example, 1.a T, 1.b (d), 1.c five, and so on, in the text box of the WebCT email. Do not "attach" attendance 1 as a file to your email.
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. Homework assignment 1 will not be accepted unless you have already submitted attendance 1!
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.
Answer all attendance2 questions and submit them to me using Vista email on or before 4 am Wednesday, September 8. Title your email as "attendance 2".
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.
TI83-lab2 not handed in.
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.
WEEK 4. September 13,15,17
Chapter 2. Differentiation
2.1 Limits and Continuity: Numerically and Graphically
2.2 Limits: Algebraically
Submit attendance3 using Vista email 4 am Wednesday, September 15.
hmk2 Submit Vista homework 2 before 4 am Friday, September 17
TI83-lab3 not handed in
Chapter 2. Differentiation
2.3 Average Rates of Change
2.4 Differentiation Using Limits of Difference Quotients
Submit attendance4 using WebCT email before 4 am Wednesday, September 22
qz-prac2 Submit WebCT quiz 2 before 4 am Friday, September 24
TI83-lab4 not handed in
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
Submit attendance5 using WebCT email before 4 am Wednesday, September 29
hmk3 Submit WebCT homework 3 before 4 am Friday, October 1
TI83-lab5 not handed in
Chapter 2. Differentiation
2.8 The Chain Rule
2.9 Higher-Order Derivatives
Submit attendance6 using WebCT email before 4 am Wednesday, October 6
qz-prac3 Submit quiz 3, supervised by your distance learning coordinator, Wednesday, the 6th, or Thursday the 7th. Bring TWO pieces of PICTURE identification!
TI83-lab6 not handed in
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
Submit attendance7 using WebCT email 4 am Wednesday, October 13
hmk4 Submit WebCT homework 4 before 4 am Friday, October 15
TI83-lab7 not handed in
WEEK 9. October 18,20,22
Chapter 3. Applications of Differentiation
3.3 Graph Sketching: Asymptotes and Rational Functions
Submit attendance8 using WebCT email before 4 am Wednesday, October 20
qz-prac4 Submit quiz 4 before 4 am Friday, October 22
TI83-lab8 not handed in
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
Submit attendance9 using WebCT email before 4 am Wednesday, October 27
hmk5 Submit homework 5 before 4 am Friday, October 29
TI83-lab9 not handed in
Chapter 3. Applications of Differentiation
3.6 Differentials
3.7 Implicit Differentiation and Related Rates
Submit attendance10 using WebCT email before 4 am Wednesday, November 3.
qz-prac5 Submit quiz 5 before 4 am Friday, November 5
TI83-lab10 not handed in
Chapter C. Trigonometric Functions
C.1 Introduction to Trigonometry
C.2 Derivatives of the Trigonometric Functions
Submit attendance11 using WebCT email before 4 am Wednesday, November 10
hmk6 Submit homework 6 using WebCT before 4 am Friday, November 12.
TI83-lab11 not handed in
Chapter 4. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
4.1 Exponential Functions
4.2 Logarithmic Functions
Submit attendance12 using WebCT email before 4 am Wednesday, November 17
qz-prac6 Submit quiz 6, supervised by your distance learning coordinator, Wednesday the 17th or Thursday the 18th.
TI83-lab12 not handed in
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
Submit attendance13 using WebCT email before 4 am Wednesday, November 24
hmk7 Submit homework 7 before 4 am Friday, November 26
TI83-lab13 not handed in
Make sure you know when and where your supervised final exam is held! Local internet students will write on campus at PNC; long distance internet students must arrange the time and location of the final with their distance learning coordinators.
WEEK 15. November 29; December 1,3
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
Submit attendance14 using WebCT email before 4 am Wednesday, December 1.
qz-prac7 Submit WebCT quiz 7 before 4 am Friday, December 3.
TI83-lab14 not handed in
If you haven't already done so, figure out the time and location of your final exam! It must be held on or before 9pm, Monday, December 15th.
WEEK 16. December 6,8,10
Review
Check out the previous final exams to help you prepare for this final exam.
Do you know when and where you are going to write your supervised final exam? Bring TWO pieces of PICTURE identification!
WEEK 17. December 13-17
Final Exam
The final exam is to be done on or before the Monday of the exam week.