Announcements

• 08/22/07   If you feel you're having trouble with the course, please let me know. Try to attend the office hours for additional help. Also, the Mathematics Department has plenty of other resources available which may help you overcome your difficulties.
• 08/29/07   There will be a diagnostic quizz on Friday, September 7, 2007 based on precalculus material. This quizz WILL NOT COUNT for your grade. It is meant to check on your precalculus skills, before the first test. An excellent study material is “Ready.. Set.. Calculus” a booklet designed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for their freshmen students. You are strongly encouraged to print out and work all the problems from this booklet.
• 09/09/07   Practice Test 1 now available online. Enjoy. Material covered: Everything listed in Course Outline, up to the Section 2.6 (including 2.6)
• 09/20/07 We will have a class tomorrow, Friday September 21. It will be on Maple, so please bring your laptops. We will go over the first two Maple assignments. As a rule from now on we will always have a class on Friday, unless specified otherwise.


• 09/30/07 Practice Test 2 is now available online. Solutions to the to the practice test problems are available here. Material covered: 
  
  2.6 Tangents, Velocities, and Other Rates
  2.7 Derivatives
  2.8 The Derivative as a Function
  2.9 What Does f' Say About f
  
  3.1 Derivatives of Polynomials and Exponential Functions
  3.2 The Product and Quotient Rules
  3.4 Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
  3.5 The Chain Rule
  3.6 Implicit Differentiation
  3.7 Derivatives of Logarithmic Functions


• 10/09/07   Your Grades are now available online.
• 10/29/07   Practice Test 3 now available online. Material covered: 
  
  3.8 Linear Approximations and Differentials
  4.1 Related Rates
  4.2 Maximum and Minimum Values
  4.3 Derivatives and the Shapes of Curves
  4.5 Indeterminate Forms and l'Hospital's Rule
  4.6 Optimization Problems
  4.8 Newton's Method