From this page, students may get class "news" updates, various handouts in Microsoft Word 97 format, assignments, and news.
News:
See the syllabus for required texts, etc.
Solution guides to past assignments are available on the bulletin board
outside my office door...or would be, if they hadn't disappeared. Whoever has
them, could you please put them back?
The final synthesis assignment is now available! The
web version is missing the diagrams for Questions 2 and 3.
Instead of a regular lab on Wednesday, December 11, we will have a max/min
homework session.
Software and Links:
Graphmatica graphing software (Windows)
Curvus Pro graphing software (Mac)
Handouts:
Course syllabus
Guide to turning in assignments
Assignments:
Assignments will be handed out weekly. Remember that literary form is
important; your goal is not just to solve the problem, but communicate its
solution.
Don't forget: I will only be marking some of the questions you turn in.
If there's something you'd really like me to look at, indicate in red ink
at the front of your assignment.
Assignment 1: Section 1.1 # 3, 10, 30, 32; Section 2.1 # 2, 6, 10, 19
Due Tuesday, Sept. 24
Assignment 2: Section 2.3 # 2, 8, 12, 33 (numerical approximation only);
Section 2.4 # 6, 12, 16, 38
Due Tuesday, Oct. 1
Assignment 3: Section 2.5 # 4, 8, 11, 21;
Section 2.6 # 2, 4, 19, 22
Due Tuesday, Oct. 8
Assignment 4: Section 3.1 # 4, 18, 22, 24, 55, 58;
Section 3.2 # 2, 6, 18, 22, 38, 40
Due Tuesday, Oct. 15
Assignment 5 (Midterm Synthesis): due
Wednesday, Oct. 16
Assignment 6: Section 3.3 # 2, 8, 17, 38, 45, 46;
Section 3.4 # 4, 16, 31, 40, 62, 66
Due Tuesday, Nov. 5
Assignment 7: Section 1.5 # 6, 8, 16, 34, 36, 40
Due Tuesday, Nov. 12
Assignment 8: Section 3.5 # 4, 16, 34, 39, 42, 48; Section 3.6 # 53, 54
Due THURSDAY, Nov. 21
Assignment 9: Section 3.6 # 2, 12, 31, 36, 50, 52;
Section 4.1 # 14, 18, 28
Due Tuesday, Nov. 26
Assignment 10: Section 4.3 # 8, 12, 24, 34;
Section 4.5 # 4, 8, 16, 22
Due THURSDAY, Dec. 12 (updated)
So You Think You're So Smart:
The problem sets below are optional, to sharpen your skills if you find the
first few assignments to be review. You can turn in as many or as few of them
as you like.
The first and third of these problem sets have accompanying hand-drawn
pictures, missing from the online versions. You may not need them, but if you
do, come see me!
First set (requires no special knowledge)
Second set (requires knowledge of exponential, power, and
inverse functions)
Third set (requires knowledge of exponential and
logarithmic functions)