course Mth173 I accidentally pressed save as notes 005. Calculus qa initial problems 08-31-2008
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14:26:15 `q001. The graph of a certain function is a smooth curve passing through the points (3, 5), (7, 17) and (10, 29). Between which two points do you think the graph is steeper, on the average? Why do we say 'on the average'?
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RESPONSE --> The graph is steeper between the last two points because there is a lesser ""run"" between them than the last two points, barely. I'm not sure why you say ""on the average"" for this question. confidence assessment: 2
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14:31:39 Slope = rise / run. Between points (7, 17) and (10, 29) we get rise / run = (29 - 17) / (10 - 7) =12 / 3 = 4. The slope between points (3, 5) and (7, 17) is 3 / 1. (17 - 5) / (7 -3) = 12 / 4 = 3. The segment with slope 4 is the steeper. The graph being a smooth curve, slopes may vary from point to point. The slope obtained over the interval is a specific type of average of the slopes of all points between the endpoints.
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RESPONSE --> Okay, I got it right but I still don't understand the average thing that well. Its an average because it's not the endpoints? self critique assessment: 2
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14:45:41 2. Answer without using a calculator: As x takes the values 2.1, 2.01, 2.001 and 2.0001, what values are taken by the expression 1 / (x - 2)? 1. As the process continues, with x getting closer and closer to 2, what happens to the values of 1 / (x-2)? 2. Will the value ever exceed a billion? Will it ever exceed one trillion billions? 3. Will it ever exceed the number of particles in the known universe? 4. Is there any number it will never exceed? 5. What does the graph of y = 1 / (x-2) look like in the vicinity of x = 2?
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RESPONSE --> 1. The values of 1/ (x-2) increase. 2. Yes it will exceed all of those if x increases to become closer to 2. 3. Yes. It will exceed all numbers. It is never-ending. 4. No. 5. For x, i put in the values -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. For y I got: -1/3, -1/2, -1, undefined, 1, and 1/2. The graph cannot have a value at 2 on the x-axis because it does not exist so the lines must avoid it. There is a smaller difference between the y value at the -1 x value and the y value at the 0 x value even though between all the other x and y coordinates the rates are constant. So, it can be assumed that as the line gets closer to the x-axis the slope decreases. self critique assessment: 2.5
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14:49:29 08-31-2008 14:49:29 For x = 2.1, 2.01, 2.001, 2.0001 we see that x -2 = .1, .01, .001, .0001. Thus 1/(x -2) takes respective values 10, 100, 1000, 10,000. It is important to note that x is changing by smaller and smaller increments as it approaches 2, while the value of the function is changing by greater and greater amounts. As x gets closer in closer to 2, it will reach the values 2.00001, 2.0000001, etc.. Since we can put as many zeros as we want in .000...001 the reciprocal 100...000 can be as large as we desire. Given any number, we can exceed it. Note that the function is simply not defined for x = 2. We cannot divide 1 by 0 (try counting to 1 by 0's..You never get anywhere. It can't be done. You can count to 1 by .1's--.1, .2, .3, ..., .9, 1. You get 10. You can do similar thing for .01, .001, etc., but you just can't do it for 0). As x approaches 2 the graph approaches the vertical line x = 2; the graph itself is never vertical. That is, the graph will have a vertical asymptote at the line x = 2. As x approaches 2, therefore, 1 / (x-2) will exceed all bounds. Note that if x approaches 2 through the values 1.9, 1.99, ..., the function gives us -10, -100, etc.. So we can see that on one side of x = 2 the graph will approach +infinity, on the other it will be negative and approach -infinity.
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NOTES -------> I did not explain the correlation
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14:49:44 For x = 2.1, 2.01, 2.001, 2.0001 we see that x -2 = .1, .01, .001, .0001. Thus 1/(x -2) takes respective values 10, 100, 1000, 10,000. It is important to note that x is changing by smaller and smaller increments as it approaches 2, while the value of the function is changing by greater and greater amounts. As x gets closer in closer to 2, it will reach the values 2.00001, 2.0000001, etc.. Since we can put as many zeros as we want in .000...001 the reciprocal 100...000 can be as large as we desire. Given any number, we can exceed it. Note that the function is simply not defined for x = 2. We cannot divide 1 by 0 (try counting to 1 by 0's..You never get anywhere. It can't be done. You can count to 1 by .1's--.1, .2, .3, ..., .9, 1. You get 10. You can do similar thing for .01, .001, etc., but you just can't do it for 0). As x approaches 2 the graph approaches the vertical line x = 2; the graph itself is never vertical. That is, the graph will have a vertical asymptote at the line x = 2. As x approaches 2, therefore, 1 / (x-2) will exceed all bounds. Note that if x approaches 2 through the values 1.9, 1.99, ..., the function gives us -10, -100, etc.. So we can see that on one side of x = 2 the graph will approach +infinity, on the other it will be negative and approach -infinity.
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RESPONSE --> Okay. self critique assessment: 3
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15:10:50 `q003. One straight line segment connects the points (3,5) and (7,9) while another connects the points (10,2) and (50,4). From each of the four points a line segment is drawn directly down to the x axis, forming two trapezoids. Which trapezoid has the greater area? Try to justify your answer with something more precise than, for example, 'from a sketch I can see that this one is much bigger so it must have the greater area'.
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RESPONSE --> The trapezoid including points (10,2) and (50,4) is the larger. I got the areas of the trapezoids by breaking them into one triangle and one rectangle and getting the area of both, then adding them together, by measuring distance between the necessary points (distance formula= squareroot of (x-x)^2+ (y-y)^2, but it was not really necessary to use with these easy numbers) and with the rectangle piece multiplying the two sides together to get area, with the triangle piece using formula 1/2base*height. The area of the smaller was 28 and the larger was 120. confidence assessment: 2.5
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15:13:05 Your sketch should show that while the first trapezoid averages a little more than double the altitude of the second, the second is clearly much more than twice as wide and hence has the greater area. To justify this a little more precisely, the first trapezoid, which runs from x = 3 to x = 7, is 4 units wide while the second runs from x = 10 and to x = 50 and hence has a width of 40 units. The altitudes of the first trapezoid are 5 and 9,so the average altitude of the first is 7. The average altitude of the second is the average of the altitudes 2 and 4, or 3. So the first trapezoid is over twice as high, on the average, as the first. However the second is 10 times as wide, so the second trapezoid must have the greater area. This is all the reasoning we need to answer the question. We could of course multiply average altitude by width for each trapezoid, obtaining area 7 * 4 = 28 for the first and 3 * 40 = 120 for the second. However if all we need to know is which trapezoid has a greater area, we need not bother with this step.
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RESPONSE --> Haha, I did bother with that step even though it was not important. Okay. self critique assessment: 3
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15:23:13 `q004. If f(x) = x^2 (meaning 'x raised to the power 2') then which is steeper, the line segment connecting the x = 2 and x = 5 points on the graph of f(x), or the line segment connecting the x = -1 and x = 7 points on the same graph? Explain the basisof your reasoning.
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RESPONSE --> The line segment conatining the x values of 2 and 5 is steeper. When the y values are figured the four pts. are (2,4), (5,25) and (-1,1), (7,49). If you subtract the first y from the second and then you get the distance between the first x and the second for both groups of points, you get slope. The first group has a slope of 21/3 or 7. The second group has a slope of 48/8 or 6. So since the first group's slope is greater, it is also steeper. confidence assessment: 2.5
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15:23:32 The line segment connecting x = 2 and the x = 5 points is steeper: Since f(x) = x^2, x = 2 gives y = 4 and x = 5 gives y = 25. The slope between the points is rise / run = (25 - 4) / (5 - 2) = 21 / 3 = 7. The line segment connecting the x = -1 point (-1,1) and the x = 7 point (7,49) has a slope of (49 - 1) / (7 - -1) = 48 / 8 = 6. The slope of the first segment is greater.
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RESPONSE --> Okay. self critique assessment: 3
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15:29:52 `q005. Suppose that every week of the current millenium you go to the jewler and obtain a certain number of grams of pure gold, which you then place in an old sock and bury in your backyard. Assume that buried gold lasts a long, long time ( this is so), that the the gold remains undisturbed (maybe, maybe not so), that no other source adds gold to your backyard (probably so), and that there was no gold in your yard before.. 1. If you construct a graph of y = the number of grams of gold in your backyard vs. t = the number of weeks since Jan. 1, 2000, with the y axis pointing up and the t axis pointing to the right, will the points on your graph lie on a level straight line, a rising straight line, a falling straight line, a line which rises faster and faster, a line which rises but more and more slowly, a line which falls faster and faster, or a line which falls but more and more slowly? 2. Answer the same question assuming that every week you bury 1 more gram than you did the previous week. {}3. Answer the same question assuming that every week you bury half the amount you did the previous week.
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RESPONSE --> 1. A rising straight line. Both variables are constant. As weeks bulid up, grams of gold build up the same because each week the exact same amount of gold is buried. 2. The line would rise faster and faster because the y values would increase faster than the x values. 3. The line would fall more and more slowly. At first the decrease would be greater than later because the numbers that must be halved will get smaller. confidence assessment: 3
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15:35:41 1. If it's the same amount each week it would be a straight line. 2. Buying gold every week, the amount of gold will always increase. Since you buy more each week the rate of increase will keep increasing. So the graph will increase, and at an increasing rate. 3. Buying gold every week, the amount of gold won't ever decrease. Since you buy less each week the rate of increase will just keep falling. So the graph will increase, but at a decreasing rate. This graph will in fact approach a horizontal asymptote, since we have a geometric progression which implies an exponential function.
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RESPONSE --> Oh! i got one and two right and I just realized what I did wrong with 3. I didn't fully understand the question I guess, since I pictured a decreasing line, basically one where half the gold is taken away every week. BUT, gold is being bought every week, just that it's half of what was bought previously. So i understand that it is increasing at a decreasing rate. I 100% comprehend my mistake and how to fix it. self critique assessment: 2
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15:36:38 `q006. Suppose that every week you go to the jewler and obtain a certain number of grams of pure gold, which you then place in an old sock and bury in your backyard. Assume that buried gold lasts a long, long time, that the the gold remains undisturbed, and that no other source adds gold to your backyard. 1. If you graph the rate at which gold is accumulating from week to week vs. tne number of weeks since Jan 1, 2000, will the points on your graph lie on a level straight line, a rising straight line, a falling straight line, a line which rises faster and faster, a line which rises but more and more slowly, a line which falls faster and faster, or a line which falls but more and more slowly? 2. Answer the same question assuming that every week you bury 1 more gram than you did the previous week. 3. Answer the same question assuming that every week you bury half the amount you did the previous week.
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RESPONSE --> this is the same question. confidence assessment: 3
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15:45:17 This set of questions is different from the preceding set. This question now asks about a graph of rate vs. time, whereas the last was about the graph of quantity vs. time. Question 1: This question concerns the graph of the rate at which gold accumulates, which in this case, since you buy the same amount eact week, is constant. The graph would be a horizontal straight line. Question 2: Each week you buy one more gram than the week before, so the rate goes up each week by 1 gram per week. You thus get a risingstraight line because the increase in the rate is the same from one week to the next. Question 3. Since half the previous amount will be half of a declining amount, the rate will decrease while remaining positive, so the graph remains positive as it decreases more and more slowly. The rate approaches but never reaches zero.
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RESPONSE --> Whoops. Sorry. I do understand the logic here and the switch of grams of gold to the x-axis. Question one would be horizontal because the amount of time in which gold is bought in stays the same, and so does the amount of gold. Question two has a rising and constant line because the increase is constant. Question three, since the amount of gold is halfed, the rate would decrease but the line would never decline, much like the last question 3. The rate can never reach zero because the number can be infintely halved. self critique assessment: 2
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15:55:16 ``q007. If the depth of water in a container is given, in centimeters, by 100 - 2 t + .01 t^2, where t is clock time in seconds, then what are the depths at clock times t = 30, t = 40 and t = 60? On the average is depth changing more rapidly during the first time interval or the second?
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RESPONSE --> The depth is changing more rapidly between 30 and 40 clock times. The pts come out to be (30,49), (40,36), and (60,16). The slope between the first two pts is 1.3 and between the second the slope is 1. self critique assessment: 2.5
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15:55:41 At t = 30 we get depth = 100 - 2 t + .01 t^2 = 100 - 2 * 30 + .01 * 30^2 = 49. At t = 40 we get depth = 100 - 2 t + .01 t^2 = 100 - 2 * 40 + .01 * 40^2 = 36. At t = 60 we get depth = 100 - 2 t + .01 t^2 = 100 - 2 * 60 + .01 * 60^2 = 16. 49 cm - 36 cm = 13 cm change in 10 sec or 1.3 cm/s on the average. 36 cm - 16 cm = 20 cm change in 20 sec or 1.0 cm/s on the average.
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RESPONSE --> ok self critique assessment: 3
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16:09:57 `q008. If the rate at which water descends in a container is given, in cm/s, by 10 - .1 t, where t is clock time in seconds, then at what rate is water descending when t = 10, and at what rate is it descending when t = 20? How much would you therefore expect the water level to change during this 10-second interval?
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RESPONSE --> The rate of the descending water at t=10 is 9 cm/s. The rate of the descending water at t=20 is 8 cm/s. The water level should lower 83.5 cm if the rate of 10 and of 20 is considered (11 seconds). The water level should lower 84.5 cm if the rate starts at 10.9 and ends at 10.0 (10 seconds). The water level should lower 85.5 cm if the rate starts at 20 and ends at 10.1 (10 seconds). I wasn't sure where to stop/end. confidence assessment: 2
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16:11:17 At t = 10 sec the rate function gives us 10 - .1 * 10 = 10 - 1 = 9, meaning a rate of 9 cm / sec. At t = 20 sec the rate function gives us 10 - .1 * 20 = 10 - 2 = 8, meaning a rate of 8 cm / sec. The rate never goes below 8 cm/s, so in 10 sec the change wouldn't be less than 80 cm. The rate never goes above 9 cm/s, so in 10 sec the change wouldn't be greater than 90 cm. Any answer that isn't between 80 cm and 90 cm doesn't fit the given conditions.. The rate change is a linear function of t. Therefore the average rate is the average of the two rates, or 9.5 cm/s. The average of the rates is 8.5 cm/sec. In 10 sec that would imply a change of 85 cm.
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RESPONSE --> Okay, I understand the no greater/no higher or averaging ways to answer this question. I just answered a little more specifically. self critique assessment: 3
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