Tuesday, September 30, 2014

The rest of Chapter 3

We finish up Chapter 3 by adding one more general derivative rule and taking the derivatives of inverses, exponential and logarithmic functions and functions for which we cannot solve for y.

10/02  Chain Rule (3.6)  CW p.153/1-27 odd
           HW p.153-155/30-48 by 3's, 53-55, 59, 61, 62, 67-69, 76-79
10/03  Implicit Differentiation (3.7)
           HW p.162-164/3-42 by 3's, 43, 45, 48-53, 56, 65

10/06  Derivatives of Inverse Trig Functions (3.8)
           HW p.170-171/3-27 by 3's, 28, 29, 31-34, 47-49
10/07  Derivatives of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions (3.9)
           HW p.178-180/3-42 by 3's, 49-51, 53, 64, 65
10/09  Log Differentiation (3.9) and Parametric Differentiation (3.6)
           HW p.179/43-48, 52, 54-56  and  p.153-155/41-49 odd, 50-52, 63, 66
           Here is a worksheet that puts the parametric/vector ideas together.
10/10  Proof of Power Rule for Rational exponents, Review and Extra Problems

10/13  Columbus Day - no school
10/14  Suggested Review Problems from the book: p.181-184/1-53 odd, 66, 67, 71, 73-75, 77, 78
10/16  Chapter 3 Test
           HW download and do handout on Curve Analysis

Saturday, September 13, 2014

The first half of Chapter 3...

This the the syllabus up to the next test.  We will probably have a test after section 3.5.

9/12  Introduction to Differentiation HW do p.105/1-12

9/15  3.1 Finish up the intro HW p.106-108/19, 20, 22-24, 26, 27, 32-34, 42, 44 plus nDeriv Worksheet
9/16  3.2 Continuity, Local Linearity, etc. HW p.114-115/4-12 by 4's, 13, 14, 31-33, 35-37, 39 plus Smoothness Worksheet
9/18  3.3 Rules of Differentiation  HW p.124/3-21 by 3's, 13, 14, 23, 27-35 odd
9/19  3.3 Proofs of Rules  HW p.124-125/37-41 odd, 42-46, 49, 50

9/22  3.4 Rates of Change  CW p.138,140/31,32,35,49  HW p.135-140/1,3,5,8-13,18-20,21,24-29
9/23  3.5 Trig Differentiation  CW p.146-147/24-26,50,51  HW p.146-148/1-9 odd,17-23 odd,27-31,33,36,37,39-42
9/25  Rosh Hashanah - no school
9/26  Extra practice (I am out) CW/HW p.124-126/47, 48, 51-59 and p.139-140/46-48, 50

9/29  Review of 3.1-3.5 (all questions answered) (Review Worksheet with Answer Key)
9/30  Test of 3.1-3.5
         HW read 3.6, do p.153/1-27 odd

Upcoming "events"
10/02 Back to School Night
10/13 Columbus Day

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Topics for Chapter 2

The list of topics is downloadable here.

Don't forget the suggested list of problems: p.95-97/3-15 by 3's, 16-24, 30, 33, 39-42, 45, 47, 48, 52