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Final Exam - Friday May 9 : 2-4 PM
See below for worked out problems you've requested.
Office Hours (for final) are
- Me
- Tuesday May 6 : 3-5
- Thursday May 8: 3-5
- Eleanor
- Wednesday May 7: 1-2
- Thursday May 8: 11-1
Final Exam Topics
- techniques of integration
- substitution
- parts
- trig. substitution
- NO partial fractions
- NO improper integrals
- applications of integration
- volumes of solids of revolution (disks,washers,shells)
- NO arc length, surface area, cross sections, centers of mass
- sequences and series
- differential equations
- basic theory, e.g. why y=sin(x) is a solution to y''=-y
- separation of variables with initial values
Week 1
- Wed January 16 2008
- Fri January 18 2008
- 4.9: 1-21 odd (for practice)
- 5.2: 17,19,30,31,35,40,43,47
- 5.3: 9-29 odd, 51,57
- 5.4: 3,5,7,11,13
- 5.5: 1-31 odd, 37-51 odd
Week 2
- Mon January 21 2008
- Wed January 23 2008
- Fri January 25 2008
- keep working on 5.6 homework
Week 3
- Mon January 28 2008
- Wed January 30 2008
- Fri February 1 2008
- 5.7: 17-23 odd, Appendix G (p.A57) 1-9 odd,11,13,15
Week 4
- Mon February 4 2008
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- Here is the integral of secant cubed worked out as well as some other interesting examples.
- Wed February 6 2008
- 5.10: 1-31 odd,55 (start working on these even though this section will take a few days to go over)
- Turn in #3
- Fri February 8 2008
Week 5
- Mon February 11 2008
- Wed February 13 2008
- Turn in #4
- 6.1: 1-15 odd, try 27
- 6.2: 1-13 odd,17,23
- Fri February 15 2008
Week 6
- Tue February 19 2008
- Wed February 20 2008
- exam friday 5.5,5.6,5.7,5.10,6.1,6.2
- Here are some problems from 5.6 and 5.7
- Fri February 22 2008
Week 7
- Mon February 25 2008
- Wed February 27 2008
- Fri February 29 2008
Week 8
- Mon March 3 2008
- Wed March 5 2008
- Fri March 7 2008
Week 9
- Mon March 10 2008
- Wed March 12 2008
- Fri March 14 2008
Week 10
- Mon March 17 2008
- Wed March 19 2008
- Fri March 21 2008
Week 11
- Mon March 24 2008
- 8.4: 3-7 odd, 13, 19-27 odd
- Wed March 26 2008
- Fri March 28 2008
- 8.5: 3-21 odd,25
- 8.6: 1-21 odd,33,35
Week 12
- Mon March 31 2008
- study for exam
- Some series representations for
- Wed April 2 2008
- See below for some worked out problems from Ch. 8
- Fri April 4 2008
- Exam 2 - Chapter 8: 8.1-8.6
Week 13
- Mon April 7 2008
- Here is a small demonstation of the behavior of the Taylor polynomials that approximate sin(x)
- A Java applet that demonstrates how the Taylor polynomials of various functions converge.
- Wed April 9 2008
- Fri April 11 2008
Week 14
- Mon April 14 2008
- Wed April 16 2008
- Fri April 18 2008
- 7.2: 1-7 odd
- An online direction field plotter.
Week 15
- Mon April 21 2008
- Wed April 23 2008
- Fri April 25 2008
Week 16
- Mon April 28 2008
- Wed April 30 2008
Homework Assignments (Turn In!)
- #1. Assigned - Wed. Jan. 23 (Due Fri. Jan. 25)
- #2. Assigned - Wed. Jan. 30 (Due Fri. Feb. 1)
- #3. Assigned - Wed. Feb. 6 (Due Fri. Feb. 8)
- #4. Assigned - Wed. Feb. 13 (Due Fri. Feb. 15)
- 5.10: #44
- For this, find an improper integral whose behaviour is known to determine
- if this integral converges.
- #5. Assigned - Wed. Feb. 27 (Due Fri. Feb. 29)
- Ch. 6 Review Exercises #24 (P. 495)
- #6. Assigned - Wed. Mar. 19 (Due Fri. Mar. 21)
- #7. Assigned - Wed. Mar. 26 (Due Fri. Mar. 28)
- #8. Assigned - Wed. Apr. 9 (Due Fri. Apr. 11)
- #9. Assigned - Wed. Apr. 16 (Due Fri. Apr. 18)
- #10. Assigned - Wed. Apr. 23 (Due Fri. Apr. 25)
Miscellany (Look here for additional materials!)
- The integral of secant cubed.
- Some interesting substitutions for integration
- A proof of the partial fractions theorem/algorithm.
- An article on the Gamma function.
- 5.6 #13, 25, 43 and 5.7 #9,11, 23
- Online Handbook Of Integer Sequences
- Wikipedia article on the Golden Mean
- A neat article about Sierpinski's Triangle
- 8.1: #21,23,25,27
- 8.6: #11
- Answer key to turn in #8.
- The series for y'=y+x without assuming that y(0)=0.
- 8.2: #25,35 and 8.3 #21,23
- 8.5 #19, 8.6 #33, 8.7 #9, 8.7 #15, 8.7 #49
- Two integrals
- 5.6 #9
- 7.3 #10