Dave Schmidt's Calculus 1 Page


Welcome to Calculus 1. The purpose of this page is to make certain resources available and keep you
up to date with everything going on in the course.

** REMINDER: If you're having trouble with the course, there are video clips available
        on which many typical problems are presented and explained. It's worth taking a look at if you
        feel the need. They are available  here  and may also be available on CD in the bookstore


EXAM #2 INFORMATION:

Exam #2 has been postponed by one day and will take place during lecture on Thursday, November 5.

There will be an in-class review in lecture on Wednesday,  November 4.  Here are some  practice problems .

No books, notes or calculators are allowed.

Below is a list of topics to be covered on the exam, with textbook citations. Since we didn't necessarily
discuss every section in its entirety, the class notes are the best guide to the exact material covered.

            Implicit Differentiation, Inverse Trig Derivatives (3.5)
          Derivatives of General Exponential Functions (3.4)
          Log Derivatives and Logarithmic Differentiation (3.6)
          Hyperbolic sine and cosine functions (3.11)
          Related Rate Problems (3.9)
          L'Hopital's Rule (4.4)
          Rolle's Theorem and Mean Value Theorem (4.2)
          Absolute Extrema and Extreme Value Theorem (4.1)
          Relative Extrema, Critical Numbers, First Derivative Test (4.3)
          Second Derivative Test and Concavity (4.3)
          Graph Sketching (4.5)


PRE-CALCULUS REVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:

    Pre-Calculus/Calculus Review Classes


SKILLS QUIZ INFORMATION:

The following is a list of the date and section coverage of our no partial credit skills quizzes for the entire
semester. These quizzes will all take place during the quiz block on Mondays from 6 - 7 PM in Sage 3510.
With the exception of the Pre-Calculus Skills Quiz, all of the skills quizzes will contain three
or four problems from the Calculus Skills Problem Set selected from the indicated sections, and will last 15-20 minutes.
There will be no calculuators used on any of these quizzes.

PRE-CALCULUS SKILLS QUIZ:  Monday, August 31.  Contains 12 questions on pre-calculus topics, will last 30 minutes

PRE-CALCULUS SKILLS QUIZ RE-TAKE: Monday, September 14. The higher of the grades on the two tries will
be counted toward your advance grade

SKILLS QUIZ #1: Monday, September 28  --  Section 2.3
SKILLS QUIZ #2: Monday, October 5 --  Sections 2.6, 3.1

CUMULATIVE SKILLS QUIZ 1: Tuesday, October 13 (MONDAY SCHEDULE!)

This is one of several opportunities to improve your quiz grades. A cumulative quiz containing new versions of some of the problems
from the previous skills quizzes will be given, and you will gain credit for any problem you answer correctly that was answered
incorrectly on the previous quizzes. Note that there is no penalty for answering a question incorrectly if it has already been answered
correctly on a previous quiz.

SKILLS QUIZ #3: Monday, October 19-- Sections 3.2, 3.3
SKILLS QUIZ #4: Monday, October 26 -- Section 3.4
SKILLS QUIZ #5: Monday, November 2 -- Section 3.6

CUMULATIVE SKILLS QUIZ 2: Monday, November 9

This is one of several opportunities to improve your quiz grades. A cumulative quiz containing new versions of some of the problems
from the previous skills quizzes will be given, and you will gain credit for any problem you answer correctly that was answered
incorrectly on the previous quizzes. Note that there is no penalty for answering a question incorrectly if it has already been answered
correctly on a previous quiz.

SKILLS QUIZ #6: Monday, November 30 -- Sections 5.3, 5.4
SKILLS QUIZ #7: Monday, December 7 -- Section 5.5

Course Information:

                       Sections 17-20

 Course Activities

 Course Policies
 

Office Hours Information:

Prof. Schmidt's Office Hours (in Amos Eaton 408): Monday 3 - 4:30 PM, Wednesday 4 - 5:30 PM

Recitation Instructor Office Hours:


Course Resources:
 

General Resources for Calculus:

    This web page collects many helpful resources, including information about Supplemental
    Instruction, Drop In Tutoring, on-line video clips and much, much more!

           Calculus Help Page
 
 

Resources Specific to our class:

Homework Assignments

Tentative Exam Dates

Exam Solutions
 
 

Resources for Calculus Skills Problem Set:

The Calculus Skills Problem Set is a set of problems designed to test your ability to carry out the basic computations
from Calculus accurately. Throughout the semester you will be tested (during quizzes and the final exam) on
algorithmically generated versions of these problems.  You will also have designated class time each week
to work on these problems in a supervised setting.

These problems will always be graded with no partial credit, and will account for approximately 20 % of
the course grade. The details of how the skills problems will be tested and how they will contribute to your
grade appear in the course policies above.

The  Calculus Skills home page is here.  This page contains much important information
pertaining to the skills portion of the course, including rules pertaining to how the problems will be graded,
academic integrity guidelines,  and Skills Assistant office hours.  It also contains a list of all the calculus
skills problems and resources for practicing different versions of them.
 
 

MAPLE Resources:

 MAPLE Files   This is a series of tutorial files explaining how MAPLE can be used to perform different pre-Calculus
                              and Calculus tasks. MAPLE (or a graphing calculator) may be handy now and then if you need to
                              quickly sketch a graph or solve an equation, although neither resource may be used on exams and
                              quizzes.

Prof. Mark Holmes' MAPLE tutorial