Calculus I, Spring 2014

Office Hours (312 Waterbury):

Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:00-12:00. You can also drop by at another time if you have a quick question.

If these times don't work, let me know and we can find a time that does work!

Syllabus and Homework

• The Syllabus for Math 1131. This is your source for course pacing, grading, and some helpful hints on group work and calculators.
  
  
• You can access WebAssign using HuskyCT. Just go to our section's page, and click the link for "WebAssign Homework" on the left. If you are having trouble logging in, try using another browser. Internet Explorer and Safari do NOT appear to work. Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome appear to work.
  
  
• A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to help you understand what future grades are possible, given your current grades. If you plug in your own personal current grades for the different categories, you can see what grades are possible based on your final exam score. By trying out different possible future quiz averages, exam scores, etc., you can get a better sense of what your final grade might look like.
  
  
• A list of good practice problems in the textbook.

Quizzes and Exams

• A checklist to help you review for every quiz.
   
• Quiz #1 and Solutions
   
• Quiz #2 and Solutions
   
• Exam 1 Review: Topics Covered,
  Review Worksheet, and Solutions
   
• Exam #1 and Solutions
   
• Quiz #3 and Solutions
   
• Quiz #4 and Solutions
   
• Exam 2 Review: Topics Covered
  Review Worksheet, and Solutions
   
• Exam #2 and Solutions
   
• Quiz #5 and Solutions
   
• Integrals Review: Topics Covered
  Review Worksheet, and Solutions
   
• One Section's Final Exam and Solutions
   
• You can find some extra resources at last semester's page. This includes old exams, quizzes, and solutions.
   
• You can also find some resources on the page for the Storrs sections. This includes practice exams, worksheets, and a few videos.

Selected Class Handouts and Worksheets:

Class 34: Approximating Net Area

There are a couple of different ways to write down sums formulas. This handout summarizes the different ways, and explains when each is the most valuable.

Class 33: Approximating The Area Under a Curve

Here is a video of the notes for the day's class:

Class 29: Antiderivatives

This handout summarizes a variety of antiderivative formulas that we get for free from our derivative formulas.

Class 28: Optimization Problems

This Worksheet lists the main optimization problems we looked at in class. It also sketches how you can use basic "principles of problem solving and sketching" to solve new optimization problems.

Class 27: Local Maxes and Mins, and Concavity

A couple people missed class on Wednesday due to the surprise snow storm. To help everyone stay on track, I made an extra recording of the day's material using my computer.

This is my first recording, so there's a bit of background noise -- I'll use a better microphone next time. Let me know if you have any questions or other suggestions!

Class 26: Absolute Maxima and Minima

The Handout from today's class gives the basic definitions and pictures for maxima and minima.

Class 24: Related Rates II and Linear Approximations

You can find helpful ideas for solving these types of problems in the day's Worksheet and its Solutions.

To help you get a better sense for the accuracy of linear approximations, try playing around with this interactive graphic.

Class 22: Compound Interest and L'Hospital's Rule I

The in-class handout on interest rates.

You'll probably need to take out loans, or to invest money, at some point in your life. To help you get a concrete sense of what different interest rates mean, I've made an interactive Investments Worksheet. Try changing the values in the spreadsheet. What happens if you change the Starting Value? What about changing the Interest Rate, or the Period?

Class 20: Derivatives and Logarithms

A new handout on Efficiently Finding Hard Derivatives and Solutions. The first page of the handout discusses some shortcut versions of the chain rule. On the second page, the handout reviews some important first steps you should consider when taking derivatives of complicated functions.

Class 19: Implicit Differetiation

A handout for trigonometric derivatives. The first half summarizes the definitions and derivatives of the standard trig functions. The second half shows how to graphs the main trig inverses based on the original function, and summarizes their derivatives.

Class 18: The Chain Rule

This handout on the chain rule and solutions summarizes the four main ways to write/think about the chain rule. It also gives advice on how to solve three sets of increasingly tricky chain rule problems.

Class 11: The Derivative as a Function

To get a good gut feeling for the derivative, try playing around with this interactive graphic.

Class 10: Derivatives and Rates of Change

To get used to seeing the derivative as the limit of the average rate of change of \(f(x)\), try playing around with this interactive graphic

Class 8: Continuity

Today's handout summarizes the definitions, and some examples, of Continuity.

Class 6: Limit Laws

This fill-in-the-blank handout handout summarizes the many limit laws.

Class 4: The Velocity and Tangent Problems

To get used to seeing the tangent line as the limit of the secant lines, try playing around with this interactive graphic

Class 2: Combining Functions and Exponential Functions

To get a good gut feeling for the graphs of exponential functions with different bases, try playing around with this interactive graphic

You can also explore general exponential functions using a graphing calculator or computer algebra system and this worksheet. This was created using a free and open source computer algebra system called Sage.

Class 1: Functions

An Algebra Review handout.