Assignments

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Assignments 0-6:  Modeling Projects; Chapter 0; Introduction to some Central Themes
Assignments 7-11
More Fundamental Ideas in the Context of Modeling Projects; Chapter 1
Assignments 12-21
:  A Closer Look at the Derivative and Integral; Chapter 2
Assignments 22-29:  Some Applications of the Derivative

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Assignments

 

Assignment 0

Preliminary Assignment (orientation and assessment)

Distance Students:  BE SURE YOU HAVE CONTACTED YOUR INSTRUCTOR BY EMAIL.  You will receive instructions for accessing the necessary Blackboard sessions, and for then completing other preliminary tasks including downloads from the Supervised Study page and the q_a_orientation program.

This preliminary assignment will orient you to the course and give you your first exposure to the subject matter of this course and to the communication process.   This assignment will typically require a week's work, though many students will be able to complete it more quickly while some might require a little longer. 

DISTANCE STUDENTS:  NOTE VIDEO VERSIONS OF CLASS NOTES ON CD's, Starting with CD #2.  See CD Contents for table of contents.

Assignments 0-6:  Modeling Projects; Chapter 0; Introduction to Some Central Themes

Assignment 1

See also Class Notes #01-#03 (Distance students:  See Calculus video clips on GEN1 CD.  Run CD by clicking on the program labeled Disk_1).

Complete q_a_cal1_1_13.exe assignment #1 (under Supervised Study (Mth 299), Course Documents, Downloads, Applied Calculus I) and submit corresponding SEND file from c:\vhmthphy (the name of this SEND file will include the 4-digit date as well as your name as you entered it in the program).

Complete DERIVE worksheet (DERIVE is available in the Learning Lab and the Math/Science Lab). 

Read Chapter 0, Section 1 on the Real Line and Order.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 2

Complete q_a_ assignment #2 and submit corresponding SEND file

Do problems 6, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 35, 36, 38ndomly choose and submit one of the nine problem versions.  These problems are similar but not identical to those in your documents. ** If you wish to use simulated data go to Randomized Problems and choose SIMULATED FLOW MODEL DATA **

Read Chapter 0, Section 2 on the Absolute Values and Distance on a Line.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 3

Complete q_a_ assignment #3 and submit corresponding SEND file

Class Notes #04:  The Concepts of Differentiation and Integration in the Context of Rate Functions

Go to Randomized Problems, Week 2 Quiz #1 and randomly choose and submit one of the problems 1-19.  Work the problem and email your solution.

Read Chapter 0, Section 3 on exponents and radicals.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 4

Complete q_a_ assignment #4 and submit corresponding SEND file

Begin Modeling Project #2, which is an exploration of exponential functions in the context of compound interest, temperature functions, and other real-world phenomena including population models and others.  Complete Exercises 1-14 (read associated material) ** Note:    If so instructed, and only in this case, instead of the problems stated in the documents, go to Randomized Problems, Calculus I, Introductory Flow Model (Model 2), and randomly choose and submit one of the nine problem versions.  These problems are similar but not identical to those in your documents. **

Read Chapter 0, Section 4 on factoring and polynomials.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 5

Complete q_a_ assignment #5 and submit corresponding SEND file

Class Notes #05:   Growth of an Exponential Function; Trapezoidal Representation of Approximate Derivatives and Integrals

Modeling Project #2:  Complete Remaining Exercises (read associated material)

Randomized Problems, Week 2 Quiz #1 and randomly choose and submit one of the problems 1-39

Read Chapter 0, Section 5 on the Real Line and Order.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 6

Complete q_a_ assignment #6 and submit corresponding SEND file

Class Notes #06:   Project #3;   Derivative of y = a x^3; The Differential

Linked Outline of Introductory Topics through 9/04/98:  Study these for the upcoming major quiz

Complete Modeling Project #3, which is an introduction to power functions and proportionality in the context of the relationship of the volume of geometrically similar sandpiles to their linear dimensions.

Randomized Problems, Week 3 Quiz #1 and randomly choose and submit one of the problems 1-39

Read Chapter 1, Section 1 on the the coordinate plane and distance formula.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignments 7-11:  More Fundamental Ideas in the Context of Modeling Projects; Chapter 1

Assignment 7

Complete q_a_ assignment #7 and submit corresponding SEND file

Complete Major Quiz in Learning Lab or at Approved Testing Site, according to Testing Instructions on the Supervised Study Current Semester pages.

Class Notes #07:  The Differential; Tangent Line Approximation to Differential

Class Notes #08:    Text problems; First Introduction to Differential Equations

Complete Inverse Functions and Logarithms, which is a concrete, step-by-step approach to the concept of inverse functions and to logarithmic functions as inverses of exponential functions.

Randomized Problems, Week 3 Quiz #2 and randomly choose and submit one of the problems 1-39

Read Chapter 1, Section 2 on the graphing of equations.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 8

Complete q_a_ assignment #8 and submit corresponding SEND file

Class Notes #09:    Text problems; Introduction to Natural Logarithms and Composite Functions; Numerical Solution of Differential Equations  ignore Text problems, Natural Logarithms, Numerical Solutions to Differential Equations; do look at Composite Functions

Randomized Problems, Week 4 Quiz #1 and randomly choose and submit one of the problems 1-39

Randomized Problems, Week 4 Quiz #2 and randomly choose and submit one of the problems 1-39

Randomized Problems, Week 3 Quiz #3 and randomly choose and submit one of the problems 1-39

Read Chapter 1, Section 3 on straight lines.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 9

Complete q_a_ assignment #9 and submit corresponding SEND file

Read Chapter 1, Section 4 on Functions

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 10

Complete q_a_ assignment #10 and submit corresponding SEND file

Class Notes #11:    Brief Intro. to Polynomials (ignore trigonometric functions--look at only the last paragraphs above the last figure and below the next-to-last figure)

Randomized Problems, Week 5 Quiz #1 and randomly choose and submit one of the problems 1-39

Randomized Problems, Week 5 Quiz #2 and randomly choose and submit one of the problems 1-39

Randomized Problems, Week 5 Quiz #3 and randomly choose and submit one of the problems 1-39

Read Chapter 1, Section 5 on limits.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 11

IMPORTANT NOTE:  You should now obtain your second set of CD's from the VHCC bookstore.  Call and order them or come in and get them.   Make sure they send or give you the SECOND SET.

Complete q_a_ assignment #11 and submit corresponding SEND file

Class Notes #12:    Rational Functions, Continuity

Read Chapter 1, Section 6 on continuity.

Prepare for Test #1

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignments 12-21:   A Closer Look at the Derivative and the Integral

Assignment 12

IMPORTANT NOTE:  You will soon need your second set of CD's.  See note on Asst 11 in case you missed it.

Complete q_a_ assignment #12 and submit corresponding SEND file

Class Notes #13:    The Derivative

Complete Test #1 in Approved Testing Facility according to instructions.

Read Chapter 2, Section 1 on the derivative.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 13

IMPORTANT NOTE:  You will soon need your second set of CD's.  See note on Asst 11 in case you missed it.

Complete q_a_ assignment #13 and submit corresponding SEND file

Class Notes #14:    The Derivative Function

Read Chapter 2, Section 2 on rules for differentiation.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 14

Complete q_a_ assignment #14 and submit corresponding SEND file

Read Chapter 2, Section 3 on rates of change and applications

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 15

Complete q_a_ assignment #15 and submit corresponding SEND file

Class Notes #18:    The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

Reread Chapter 2, Section 3 on rates of change and applications

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 16

Complete q_a_ assignment #16 and submit corresponding SEND file

Class Notes #22:    Product and Quotient Rules

Reread Chapter 2, Section 4 on Product and Quotient Rules

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 17

Class Notes #19:    Review Notes for Test  (see also Derivatives of Polynomials in Class Notes #'s 20, 21)

Class Notes #20:    The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; Derivatives of Polynomials

Class Notes #21:    The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; Derivatives of Polynomials

Read Chapter 2, Section 5 on the Chain Rule

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 18

Class Notes #23:    The Chain Rule

Class Notes #15:    Interpretation of the Derivative; the Second Derivative

Class Notes #16:    Second Derivative; Definite Integral

Class Notes #17:    Using DERIVE for integrals and Riemann sums

Reread Chapter 2, Section 5 on the Chain Rule

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 19

Class Notes #15:    Interpretation of the Derivative; the Second Derivative

Class Notes #16:    Second Derivative

Read Chapter 2, Section 6 on the Higher Order Derivatives

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 20

Class Notes #26:    Inverse Functions; Chain Rule; Implicit Differentiation

Class Notes #27:    Implicit Differentiation; Tangent Line Approximation; l'Hopital's Rules

Class Notes #28:    Implicit Differentiation; Maxima, Minima and Inflection Points

Read Chapter 2, Section 7 on Implicit Differentiation

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 21

Read Chapter 2, Section 8 on Higher Order Derivatives

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignments 22-29Some Applications of the Derivative

Assignment 22

Complete Chapter 2 Test in Learning Lab

Read Chapter 3, Section 1 on Increasing and Decreasing Functions

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 23

Read Chapter 3, Section 2 on Extrema and First-Derivative Test

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 24

Read Chapter 3, Section 3 on Concavity and the Second-Derivative Test

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 25

Read Chapter 3, Section 4 on Optimization Problems

Class Notes #29:    Local Maxima and Minima; Families of Functions

Class Notes #30:    Families of Functions; Optimization

Class Notes #31:    Optimization

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 26

Read Chapter 3, Section 5 on Business and Economics Applications

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 27

Read Chapter 3, Section 6 on Asymptotes

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 28

Read Chapter 3, Section 7 on Curve Sketching

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Assignment 29

Read Chapter 3, Section 8 on Differentials and Marginal Analysis

Class Notes #36:    Marginality

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program.

Complete Chapter 3 Test

Review for Cumulative Final Exam

Complete Final Exam in Learning Lab

General Instructions for Completing Assignments

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Distance Students need to have the Query program installed according to instructions and to use it as directed after each assignment.  Attach the dated SEND***.txt file to your email message.