Calculus I


Course Syllabus with detailed course information






We have 25 classes in total.

Textbook: Calculus for Scientists and Engineers (Early Transcendentals) by Briggs, Cochran and Gillett

Textbook chapters to be covered: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Power Point Slides of the Textbook:
PPT for Chapter 1 Functions
PPT for Chapter 2 Limits
PPT for Chapter 3 Derivatives
PPT for Chapter 4 Applications of the derivatives
PPT for Chapter 5 Integration





Midterm Exam (for all sections):
Oct 28, 2012 (Sunday) morning (time and venue to be announced)

Final Exam:

Grading policy: Homework and quizzes (15%), midterm (30%) and final exam (55%) are to be used to determine the grade. More details can be found in the course syllabus.

Solutions for Midterm Exam (white-green version)






Teaching Schedule (subject to slight change):

Week 01: 1.1 Review of functions, 1.2 Representing functions, 1.3 Inverse, exponential and logarithmic functions

Week 02: 1.4 Trigonometric functions and their inverses, 2.1 The idea of limits, 2.2 Definitions of limits

Week 03: 2.3 Techniques for computing limits, 2.4 Infinite limits, 2.5 Limits at infinity, 2.6 Continuity

Week 04: 3.1 Introducing the derivatives, 3.2 Rules of differentiation

Week 05: 3.2 Rules of differentiation, 3.3 The product and quotient rules, 3.4 Derivatives of trigonometric functions, 3.5 Derivatives as rates of change, 3.6 The chain rule

Week 06: 3.7 Implicit differentiation, 3.8 Derivatives of logarithmic and exponential functions, 3.9 Derivatives of inverse trigonometric functions

Week 07: 3.10 Related rates, 4.1 Maxima and minima

Week 08: 4.2 What derivatives tell us, 4.3 Graphing functions, 4.4 Optimization problems

Week 09: 4.5 Linear approximation and differentials, 4.6 Mean value theorem, 4.7 L'Hopital's rule

Week 10: 4.8 Newton's method (*), 4.9 Antiderivatives

Week 11: 5.1 Approximating areas under curves, 5.2 Definite integrals

Week 12: 5.3 Fundamental theorem of calculus, 5.4 Working with integrals

Week 13: 5.5 Substitution rule, Review (if there is time available)





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Lecture notes in pdf (to be updated from time to time)
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Math1013 Additional Practice Problems From Textbook