Precalculus Lecture Schedule

Summer 2001, Dr. Howard

The schedule below is tentative, and may be subject to change.  Updates will be posted on the course web site.

Please peruse the text book sections before we cover them in class.

 

 Day   Date   Topics/Agenda 
 Mon.   June 11  Intro:  syllabus, reading assignment
Tues. June 12 Inequalities and absolute value:  Section 1.2
Wed. June 13 Graphs and distance:
Sections 1.3 and 1.4
 Thurs.  June 14 Functions:  Section 1.6
Mon. June 18 Linear functions:  section 1.7
Tues. June 19 Quadratic functions:  section 1.8
Wed. June 20 Other algebraic functions:  sections 1.9 and 1.10
Thurs. June 21 Test 1
Mon. June 25 Compositions of functions:  section 1.11
Tues. June 26 Inverse functions:  section 1.12
Wed. June 27 Polynomial functions:  section 2.2
 Thurs.  June 28 Roots of polynomials:  section 2.3
Mon. July 2 More on roots of polynomials
Tues. July 3 Test 2  
Wed. July 4 Holiday -- no classes
Thurs. July 5 Rational exponents, Fundamental Thm. of Algebra:
sections 2.5 and 2.6
Mon. July 9 Sine and Cosine:  section 3.2
Tues. July 10 Reference numbers and graphing sine and cosine
Wed. July 11 Evaluating the sine and cosine functions at pi/4, pi/3, and pi/6
Thurs. July 12 Graphing sine and cosine functions:  section 3.3
Mon. July 16 Other trig functions:  section 3.4
Trigonometric identities:  section 3.5
Tues. July 17 Right-angle trig:  section 3.6
Wed. July 18 Inverse trig functions:  section 3.7
Thurs. July 19 Test 3  
Mon. July 23 The natural exponential function:  section 4.2
Tues. July 24 Logarithm functions:  section 4.3
Wed. July 25 Exponential growth/decay:  section 4.4
Thurs. July 26 Finish up, answer questions, course evaluations

 

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