Math 119: Applied Calculus I

Fall 2018

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@fairfield.edu

Office: BNW 16

Office Hours: T 11-12:30, 1:30-3; W 2-3; F 11-12:30 or by appointment

Textbook: Calculus with Applications by Lial, Greenwell, Ritchey, 10th or 11th edition

Class Meetings: TF 12:30-1:20, W 1-1:50 (NHS 405)

Final Exam: Section 14: Friday December 14, 9:30AM

Syllabus

Calendar

You need to watch each video before class on the listed date.

9/5: Episode 1: Limits graphically Classwork: Section 2.1 #38, 39, Section 3.1 #3, 6, 7, 8, 10
9/7: Episode 2: Limits algebraically Classwork: Section 3.1 #32, 33, 42, 45, 47, 49, (old book 87, new book 89)
9/11: Episode 3: Continuity Classwork: Section 3.2 #2, 6, 7, 10
Work from Episodes 1 & 2 due today
9/12: Episode 4: Continuity 2 Classwork: Section 3.2 #20bc, 23bc, 37, 39 (just give a formula for C(x))
9/14: Episode 5: Average rate of change Classwork: Section 3.3 #2, 5, 27a, 28ab, 31a, 40ab
9/18: Episode 6: Instantaneous rate of change Classwork: Section 3.3 #10, 17, 27c, 44c
Work from Episodes 3, 4 & 5 due today
9/19: Review day (no video for today)
9/21: Exam 1 (no video for today, test covers Eps 1-5)
 
9/25: Episode 7: The derivative Classwork: Section 3.4 #11, 14, 50
9/26: Episode 8: Graphs of derivatives Classwork: Section 3.5 #7, 8, 9, 11, 16, 17
9/28: Episode 9: Derivatives of polynomials Classwork: Section 4.1 #4, 7, 13, 20, 34, 38, 60
10/2: Episode 10: Product and quotient rules Classwork: Section 4.2 #1, 7, 12, 25, 27, 28, (new book 45, old book 43), 52a
Work from Episodes 6, 7, 8 & 9 due today
10/3: Episode 11: Chain rule Classwork: Section 4.3 #22, 27, 31, 38, 39, 49, 56
10/5: Episode 12: Exponential functions Classwork: Section 4.4 #4, 12, 19, 24, 27, 33, 45
Deleted scene: Episode 12.5: A real-life medical example about hemochromatosis
10/10: Episode 13: Logarithms review Classwork: Section 2.5 #2, 8, 14, 17, 22, 60, 61, (old book 87, new book 89)
Work from Episodes 10, 11 & 12 due today
10/12: Episode 14: Derivative of logarithms Classwork: Section 4.1 #8, 9, 11, 16, 39, (old book 62ab, new book 64ab)
10/16: Episode 15: Increasing and decreasing functions Classwork: Section 5.1 #5, 6, 15, 17, 20
Work from Episodes 13 & 14 due today
10/17: Review day (no video for today)
10/19: Exam 2 (no video for today, test covers Eps 6-14)
 
10/23: Episode 16: Increasing and decreasing functions 2 Classwork: Section 5.1 #23, 24, 29, 32
10/24: Episode 17: First derivative test Classwork: Section 5.2 #2, 6, 13, 19, (old book 55, new book 57)
10/26: Episode 18: First derivative test 2 Classwork: Section 5.2 #27, 30, (new book 56)
10/30: Episode 19: Higher derivatives Classwork: Section 5.3 #7, 16, 21, (old book 26, 27, 29, new book 27, 29, 31)
Work from Episodes 15, 16, 17 & 18 due today
10/31: Episode 20: Second derivative test Classwork: Section 5.3 (old book 36, 37, 59, 61, 87, new book 38, 39, 61, 63, 89)
11/2: Episode 21: Curve sketching Classwork: Section 5.4 # 6, 8, 9
11/6: Episode 22: Curve sketching 2 Classwork: Section 5.4 #13, 19
Work from Episodes 19, 20 & 21 due today
11/7: Episode 23: Absolute extrema Classwork: Section 6.1 #12, 16, 17, 42, (old book 51, new book 53)
11/9: Episode 24: Antiderivatives Classwork: Section 7.1 #9, 15, 21, 30, 33, 37, 42
11/13: Episode 25: Initial value problems Classwork: Section 7.1 #45, 51, 58, 60, 66, 67
Work from Episodes 22, 23 & 24 due today
11/14: Review day (no video for today)
11/16: Exam 3 (no video for today, test covers Eps 15-24)
 
11/20: Episode 26: Substitution Classwork: Section 7.2 #7, 10, 20, 29
11/27: Episode 27: Estimating areas with rectangles Classwork: Section 7.3 #6, 7, 9, 11 (no part c for any of these)
Work from Episodes 25 & 26 due today
11/28: Episode 28: Trapezoid & Simpson's rules Classwork: Section 7.6 #3, 8, 11, 12 (no part c for any of these)
11/30: Episode 29: Integrals and total change Classwork: Section 7.3 #25, (old book 26, 37; new book 28, 39), Section 7.6 #32, 33 (use n=6)
12/4: Episode 30: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus Classwork: Section 7.4 #3, 10, 17, 26, 30
Work from Episodes 27, 28 & 29 due today
12/5: Episode 31: Areas Classwork: Section 7.4 #41, 44, 32, 35
12/7: Review day (no video for today)
12/14, 9:30AM: Final exam (covers everything)
Work from Episodes 30 & 31 due today
Do the course evaluation survey!
Evaluation