Math 1121: Applied Calculus I

Spring 2021

General Information

Class meetings TWF 11-11:50, BNW 341

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@fairfield.edu

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

Office Hours: T 1:30-2:30, TF 12-12:30, W 10-11 & 12-1, or by appointment
All office hours by Zoom! Zoom link: https://fairfield.zoom.us/j/5514910533

Final Exam: Friday, May 7, 11:30AM

Links

• Syllabus (PDF)
• Do the course evaluation survey!

Schedule

• 1/27: Episode 1 Professor's HW answers
• 1/29: Episode 2 Professor's HW answers
• 2/2: Episode 3 Professor's HW answers
• 2/3: Episode 4 Professor's HW answers
• 2/5: Episode 5 (quiz covering 1-4) Professor's HW answers
• 2/9: Episode 6 Professor's HW answers
• 2/10: Episode 7 Professor's HW answers
• 2/12: Episode 8 (quiz covering 5,6,7) Professor's HW answers
• 2/16: Episode 9 Professor's HW answers
• 2/17: Review day! (no video / homework)
• 2/19: Exam #1 (covering 1-9)
• 2/23: Episode 10 Professor's HW answers
• 2/24: Episode 11 Professor's HW answers
• 2/26: Episode 12 (quiz covering 10,11) Professor's HW answers
• 3/2: Episode 13 Professor's HW answers
• 3/3: Episode 14 Professor's HW answers
• 3/5: Episode 15 (quiz covering 12,13,14) Professor's HW answers
• 3/9: Episode 16 Professor's HW answers
• 3/10: Episode 17 Professor's HW answers
• 3/12: Episode 18 (quiz covering 15,16,17) Professor's HW answers
• 3/16: Episode 19 Professor's HW answers
• 3/17: Review day! (no video / homework)
• 3/19: Exam #2
• 3/23: Episode 20 Professor's HW answers
• 3/24: Episode 21 Professor's HW answers
• 3/26: Episode 22 (quiz covering 20,21) Professor's HW answers
• 3/30: Episode 23 Professor's HW answers
• 3/31: Episode 24 Professor's HW answers
• 4/7: Episode 25 Professor's HW answers
• 4/9: Episode 26 (quiz covering 22,23,24,25) Professor's HW answers
• 4/13: Episode 27 Professor's HW answers
• 4/14: Review day! (no video / homework)
• 4/16: Exam #3
• 4/20: Episode 28 Professor's HW answers
• 4/21: Episode 29 Professor's HW answers
• 4/23: Episode 30 (quiz covering 28,29) Professor's HW answers
• 4/27: Episode 31 Professor's HW answers
• 4/28: Episode 32 Professor's HW answers
• 4/30: Review day! (quiz covering 30, 31, 32)
• 5/4: Office hours / extra review as needed
• 5/7: Final Exam, 11:30AM

Video links

Here is a YouTube playlist.

• Episode 1: Limits graphically
  Homework: Section 2.1 #38, 39, Section 3.1 #3, 6, 7, 8, 10
• Episode 2: Limits algebraically
  Homework: Section 3.1 #32, 33, 35, 36, 42,
• Episode 3: Limits at infinity
  Homework: Section 3.1 43-52, (old book 87, new book 89)
• Episode 4: Continuity
  Homework: Section 3.2 #2, 6, 7, 10
• Episode 5: Piecewise functions
  Homework: Section 3.2 #20bc, 23bc, 37 (just write a formula for F(x), don't do their questions), 41ab
• Episode 6: Average rate of change
  Homework: Section 3.3 #2, 5, 27a, 28ab, 31a, 40ab
• Episode 7: Instantaneous rate of change
  Homework: Section 3.3 #10, 17, 27c, 44c
• Episode 8: The derivative
  Homework: Section 3.4 #13, 14, 50
• Episode 9: Derivatives on graphs
  Homework: Section 3.5 #7, 8, 9, 11, 16, 17
• Episode 10: Derivatives of polynomials
  Homework: Section 4.1 #4, 7, 13, 20, 34, 38, 60
• Episode 11: Product rule and quotient rule
  Homework: Section 4.2 #1, 7, 12, 25, 27, 28, (new book 45, old book 43), 52a
• Episode 12: The chain rule
  Homework: Section 4.3 #22, 23, 30, 33, 39, 49, 56
  
• Episode 13: Exponential functions
  Homework: Section 4.4 #4, 12, 19, 24, 27, 33, 45
• Episode 14: Logarithms
  Homework: Section 2.5 #2, 8, 14, 17, 22, 60, 61, (old book 87, new book 89)
• Episode 15: Derivative of logs
  Homework: Section 4.5 #8, 9, 11, 16, 33, 39, (old book 62ab, new book 64ab)
• Episode 16: Increasing & Decreasing
  Homework: Section 5.1 #5, 6, 15, 17, 20
• Episode 17: Increasing & Decreasing 2
  Homework: Section 5.1 #23, 24, 29, 32
• Episode 18: First derivative test
  Homework: Section 5.2 #2, 6, 13, 19, (old book 55, new book 57)
• Episode 19: More first derivative test
  Homework: Section 5.2 #27, 30, (old book 54, new book 56)
• Episode 20: Higher derivatives
  Homework: Section 5.3 #7, 16, 21, (old book 26, 27, 29, new book 27, 29, 31)
• Episode 21: Second derivative test
  Homework: Section 5.3 (old book #36, 37, 59, 61, 87, new book #38, 39, 61, 63, 89)
• Episode 22: Curve sketching
  Homework: Section 5.4 #6, 8, 9 (for these, just graph the function- show enough work so that I know how you did it)
• Episode 23: Curve sketching with asymptotes
  Homework: Section 5.4 #13, 19 (for these, just graph the function- show enough work so that I know how you did it)
• Episode 24: Absolute extrema
  Homework: Section 6.1 #12, 16, 17, 42, (old book 51, new book 53)
• Episode 25: The antiderivative
  Homework: Section 7.1 #9, 15, 21, 30, 33, 37, 42
  
• Episode 26: Initial value problems
  Homework: Section 7.1 #45, 51, 58, 60, 66, 67
  
• Episode 27: Integration by substitution
  Homework: Section 7.2 #7, 10, 17, 20, 29
  
• Episode 28: Area estimates with rectangles
  Homework: Section 7.3 #6, 7, 9, 11 (no part c for any of these)
  
• Episode 29: Trapezoid and Simpson's rules
  Homework: Section 7.6 #3, 8, 11, 12 (no part c for any of these)
  
• Episode 30: Total Change Theorem
  Homework: Section 7.3 #25, (old book 26, new book 28), (old book 37, new book 39), Section 7.6 #32, 33
  
• Episode 31: Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
  Homework: Section 7.4 #3, 10, 17, 26, 30
  
• Episode 32: Areas
  Homework: Section 7.4 #32, 35, 41, 44