Calculus with    Analytic Geometry I Honors section

Please check this site frequently for updates to the course syllabus.

Announcements:

• Test 3 will be held on Wednesday, November 10.
• Please respond to the questions on the student information form.
• Free help with Maple is available in the Mathematics Computing Lab, located in Arnold 204.
• Free math tutoring in the Academic Support Center, Tucker 105.

1. A brief introduction describes the course and its underlying themes.
2. An historical outline sketches some of the chief contributors to the differential and integral calculus.
3. Assigned problems
4. Course lecture notes, written in Maple:
• Part 1: limits, continuity, and the definition of the derivative
• Part 2: implicit differentiation
• Part 3:  curve sketching
• Part 4:  area under a curve and integration
5. We have discussed the drug model in class.  Your assignment is to adjust the period and amplitude of the dose so that the concentration in the blood stream remains between 2 and 3 for all t > 20.  Due Tuesday, September 28.
6. Group projects
• :Maple tutor for differential calculus.  Due Friday, September 10.
• Functions defined by data.  Due Friday, October 22.  (Omit the additional data sets).
• Marine pollution.  Due Monday, November 8.
• Radioactive decay.  Due Tuesday, November 23.
• Warming, cooling, and urban ozone pollution.  Due Tuesday, December 7.